Do you feel exhausted and overdrawn in less than half the time? Or it always takes a lot of effort to make others hear you clearly; I still feel a dull pain in my head at night or after work, so just sleep. After a hard day, I feel uncomfortable again. Even if I don't get enough sleep, I always feel stiff shoulders and neck, backache, inexplicable sore throat and low fever. The doctor prescribed the medicine for a while, but it soon broke out again. If you have been troubled by these conditions for more than half a year, and obviously affected your life and work, then you are probably suffering from "chronic fatigue syndrome".
Chronic fatigue is common at the age of 25? Forty-five-year-old female, mostly caused by long-term stress.
Chronic fatigue most often occurs in professional women. The reason why you feel tired and your work efficiency is poor is the long-term pressure that is difficult to relieve, and this pressure often comes from the workplace and family. Moderate pressure makes people grow, while excessive pressure makes people degenerate. In outpatient clinics, flight attendants, stay-at-home mothers and professional women often have these symptoms. When their other half comes to the clinic with them, I will earnestly tell the other half to be considerate of their various discomforts, which sounds like illness-free, but in fact, the body is warning them that they are too tired and stressed.
The main symptom of chronic fatigue syndrome is obvious fatigue, which cannot be improved by rest. Sometimes it is accompanied by some symptoms, such as inexplicable sore throat and swollen cervical lymph nodes, but it is not a cold, joint pain or muscle weakness. Emotion and sleep can also be disturbed, and these symptoms cannot be classified as other chronic diseases.
Why are women more likely to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome than men? We can summarize it as congenital difference and acquired destruction. Girls have less muscle mass and poor physical endurance under congenital conditions. Menstruation every month, periodic changes in Hermon and regular blood loss will make girls' stress resistance more unstable than boys'. After entering the workplace or giving birth to a child, the working hours are not fixed, the mother of the child has to milk and take care of the child, and professional women even have to bear the burden of work. When the endocrine system and skeletal muscles of the body wail, various symptoms will begin to appear. These problems are especially common when flight attendants and mothers are affected by jet lag and are overloaded physically and mentally.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning helps to maintain body function and increase stress resistance.
The body always feels tired and uncomfortable, and the western medicine examination can't find out the problem? Maybe Chinese medicine can improve your symptoms! In my clinic, there are many female patients with head-to-toe pain, repeated headaches and colds, and often want to sleep well. They often fail to find anything wrong when they do a general health examination, and all the values may be completely normal. We must pay attention to the key points, sometimes with the menstrual cycle tonic, sometimes soothing the liver and promoting qi, sometimes helping sleep, and then change the prescription accordingly. After menstruation, depending on the physique, tonify qi and blood, cool and heat, and make small supplements. During ovulation and menstrual period, Chinese medicines for soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis should be used to make the body more resistant to stress and bid farewell to fatigue.
After giving birth to my first and second children, I experienced chronic fatigue. Because work and family burn at both ends, and the child is breast-fed, the postpartum overdraft is about six months to one year, and he often catches a cold or has repeated urinary tract inflammation. Whenever I have menstrual cramps, I feel tired and weak, followed by symptoms of hair loss and headache, and I obviously feel depressed. Fortunately, my major is health care, and I will continue to help myself replenish qi and blood after the second month. Based on Shiquan Dabu Decoction, I add Cortex Albizziae, Radix Bupleuri, Lily, Radix Saposhnikoviae and Folium Bambusae to improve other exogenous diseases such as stagnation of liver qi and inflammation.
Drinking water and decocting medicine while working, and then forming the habit of regular work and rest and exercise, all the way to make up, not only greatly enhance physical strength, but also rarely get sick, and feel the great benefits of TCM conditioning. I met a woman who had the same trouble in the clinic. After consultation and tongue pulse examination, she was nursed back to health with the menstrual cycle, and even a mother who was difficult to conceive the first child was nursed back to health, and even silently "accidentally" conceived the second child, which made people very happy.
In addition to drugs to regulate your body, if you have the habit of drinking tea, I suggest making some hot tea with Lycium barbarum, Astragalus membranaceus, Albizia Albizziae, mint and Gastrodia elata, which can not only clear your mind, but also reduce your body's tension. In addition, licorice, wheat and jujube are also famous Chinese medicine prescriptions-Ganmai Jujube Decoction. Adding powdered ginseng and angelica can not only ease the mood, but also boost the spirit. It is often used to improve symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitation, fatigue and sleep disorder caused by stress. It tastes sweet and is suitable for girls who usually like to drink desserts.
Commonly used clinical treatment prescriptions
The following prescriptions are generally suitable for various physical conditions, but the actual situation still needs to be decided after Chinese medicine sees a doctor:
Xiaoyao powder-nourishing blood and soothing the liver, suitable for people with mild blood deficiency and easy to be nervous.
Bazhen Decoction plus Bupleurum, Albizia Albizia bark, Platycodon grandiflorum and Pinellia ternata-benefiting qi and nourishing blood, soothing the liver and soothing the throat, is suitable for people who are obviously tired, restless in sleep and often have foreign body sensation in their throats.
Qingxin Lianzi Decoction combined with Siwu Decoction, Chrysanthemum, Mint, Schizonepeta and Saposhnikovia divaricata can cool qi and blood and nourish the head, which is suitable for chronic fatigue patients with migraine tendency and easy dry mouth.
Exercise, soak your feet in hot springs, avoid sweet food, and find ways to relieve stress yourself.
To sum up, chronic fatigue is the accumulation of long-term stress. To fight fatigue, we must find our own ways to relieve stress and listen to the information released by the body. The best way for me to relieve stress is to exercise. Of course, I am also quite secular. Watching movies, chasing dramas and satisfying my shopping desires from time to time are also full of relief.
Developing exercise habits is my 100% self-goal in recent years. Exercise (aerobic exercise combined with anaerobic weight-bearing training) can make the muscles of the whole body stretch and relax moderately and promote the secretion of hormones (endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, etc.). ) make the body feel happy. I have been exercising regularly in recent years, and found that my work efficiency has improved, my thinking has become clearer, and my sleep depth has also improved. However, the types and time of exercise suitable for everyone need to be trained and adjusted: generally speaking, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise (the heartbeat can reach 130- 140 times per minute, and girls will gasp slightly during exercise, and may not be able to finish a sentence completely), two or three times a week, each time for 40-60 minutes, is the degree that girls can bear the load. At first, you can try brisk walking and cycling, and gradually switch to aerobic dance, boxing aerobics, running and other higher-intensity sports. You can refer to the weekly exercise schedule in the chapter on losing weight (page 109), and then adjust the intensity according to your current physical fitness.
Others, such as soaking in hot springs and feet, can also help the body relax and strengthen blood circulation. The bath effect of traditional Chinese medicine is more obvious, and the medicinal materials release effective components through hot water. By bathing and soaking your feet, on the one hand, you can relax your mood, on the other hand, you can absorb medicinal materials through your skin to achieve the effect of conditioning. I like to use cassia twig, safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza and angelica tail to boil water. The fragrance is overflowing, which can relieve stress and help you sleep. It will be warmer if you soak your hands and feet frequently! For postpartum mothers, I recommend using wormwood leaves, galena, dried ginger, Fructus Cnidii and other medicinal materials. These all have the effects of heating and preventing colds, and the effect is also very good. If you often go skiing in Japan and South Korea in winter, you can stay for a day or two, go to Sparex or hot spring hotel to take a sauna or soak in a hot spring. This will purify your body and mind, relax your mood, be warm and comfortable, and then return to China after recharging, and the whole person will be brand-new.
In addition, it is best to eat less sugar, less oil and less salt. Although high-calorie sweets and fried foods can make people feel happy in a short time, long-term high calorie, heavy taste and diet will affect metabolism, and the body is more prone to lack of oxygen and poor circulation, leading to depression and instability. The more you eat, the more tired you will be. Use honey, maple sugar and palm sugar instead of sugar, and cook with water or olive oil instead of fried and grilled food. Diet is light, metabolism is improved, and fatigue is naturally reduced.
This article is taken from the book "Beauty Room: Hu Xinlin's All-round TCM Conditioning" of the times culture.
You can make a cup of hot tea with 5 grams of Lycium barbarum, 2 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, 3 grams of Albizia Albizziae bark, 0 grams of mint/kloc-0, and 2 grams of gastrodia elata. 3 grams of licorice, 3 grams of floating wheat and 5 grams of red dates are also good choices. Formula of medicated bath: Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Ramulus Cinnamomi, angelica tail, and Zingiberis Rhizoma. Shiquan Dabu soup or medicinal ribs are good choices. (The picture is for illustration only)