SECRET REMEDIES: COSTS AND CONTENTS
CONTENTS PART I WHAT IS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME CHAPTER 1 CONCEPTS CONTROVERSIES AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE 3 CHAPTER 2 ETIOLOGIES 15 CHAPTER 3 STRESS ADRENAL FATIGUE AND COGNITIVE DISORDER 33 PART II HOW IS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME DIAGNOSED CHAPTER 4 STANDARD DIAGNOSIS 49 CHAPTER 5 ALTERNATIVE TESTING STRATEGIES 55 PART III NATURAL TREATMENTS FOR CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME CHAPTER 6 NATURE CURES ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MODALITIES 65 CHAPTER 7 MIND BODY AND LIFESTYLE 79 CHAPTER 8 NUTRIENTS 93 CHAPTER 9 BOTANICAL MEDICINES 113 RESOURCES 145 REFERENCES 149 1 47 63 PART I WHAT IS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME 1 CHAPTER 1 CONCEPTS CONTROVERSIES AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE HISTORY FEW CONDITIONS HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH CONTROVERSIAL ATTENTION AS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME CFS DEBATES COMMENCED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING IN THE EARLY STAGES OF ITS DISCOVERY THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY HAD TROUBLE COMBINING THIS COMPLEX OF SEEMINGLY UNRELATED SYMPTOMS AND THE QUESTION OF WHETHER CFS WAS TRULY ITS OWN ORGANIC DISEASE EVOKED CONFUSION THAT BEING THE CASE CFS WAS LUMPED INTO CATEGORIES SUCH AS NEURASTHENIA 1 MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AND EVEN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS 2 WHEN CFS NALLY ESTABLISHED ITS OWN IDENTITY THERE WAS MUCH DISAGREEMENT ABOUT DE NING SOMETHING SO INDETERMINATE WHILE SOME REFUTED ITS VERY EXISTENCE 3 FORTUNATELY CFS DID ATTRACT ATTENTION FROM MANY RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS WHO BEGAN TO GURE OUT WHAT CAUSED THIS COMPLEX DISORDER HOW TO DIAGNOSE IT HOW TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM OTHER DISORDERS AND OF COURSE HOW TO TREAT A PERSON AFFECTED BY IT IN 1994 A FUNDAMENTAL DE NITION FOR CFS HAD EMERGED 4 AND IN 2003 THIS CASE DE NITION WAS REVISED TO EXCLUDE PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS 5 CFS WAS PRESENTED AS A CONDITION OF LONG LASTING FATIGUE WITH NO RELIEF ACCOMPANIED BY OTHER MEN TAL EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF NO OTHER ORIGIN CREATING A DE NITION PROVIDED A SOLID STARTING POINT FROM WHICH TO GO FORWARD THE RST STEP WAS TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE PROBLEM WITH A BASIC DE NITION IS IN ITSELF BASIC SOME QUESTIONS THAT REMAINED UNANSWERED WERE HOW MANY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE AF FECTED WHAT DIAGNOSTIC TESTS CAN WE RELY ON HOW DO WE KNOW IF THERAPY IS TRULY EFFECTIVE HOW WILL THE VERY DE NITION OF CFS EVOLVE IN LIGHT OF NEW RESEARCH AROUND THIS TIME DESPITE OUR DE NITIONS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL CDC HAD CONCLUDED THAT NO PATHOGNOMONIC TESTS HAVE BEEN VALIDATED IN SCIENTI C STUDIES 6 TO DIAGNOSE CFS THIS MEANT THAT WE DID NOT HAVE A SURE RE 3