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A Curious Thought - ME

by Nancy Blake

The author’s column is usually headed ‘Practical NLP’. She is also nearly fully recovered from ME, and is passionate about the often cruel treatment of people with ME and other chr...

A Natural Approach to Healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

by Barbara Hepburn

All illness, both major and minor, is from an holistic point of view a combination of physical, emotional and spiritual imbalance. Each has a knock-on effect on the other. Therefor...

Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome

by June Butlin

Mark came to me in sheer despair. He was suffering from severe tiredness, a racing heartbeat and continuous noises in his head. The doctors and specialists had treated him for t...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Immune Modulation with Coriolus Versicolor†

by Dr Jean Monro

The author describes the symptoms and signs of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (within which she includes myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic viral syndrome and post-viral fatigue syndrom...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and NADH

by June Butlin

Just as Tim was initially in denial of his illness, many doctors suffer from the same problem. They refuse to recognise the condition because they can't find anything physically wr...

Clinical Impovements in CFS/ME: The Role of Fatty Acids

by Professor Basant K Puri

In this article the author, Consultant/Professor at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, shares his views on why he believes ME has an infectious cause and is more a physical...

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

by Liz Marsh

Most medical practitioners now accept that attitude of mind – both positive and negative – can have a significant effect on the course of many illnesses. Although chronic fatigue s...

Coming in from the cold

by Dr Derek Pheby

It is not for nothing that ME, or CFS, has been called 'the disease of a thousand names'. While confusing, consideration of these many names is also illuminating about the disease ...

Complementary Therapies for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

by John Halford

In view of the fact that orthodox medicine is not yet able to provide any really effective therapy for CFS, many sufferers turn to alternative or complementary medicine almost as a...

Management and Treatment of ME - Part I

by Dr Derek Pheby

Part I - People with ME have suffered over many years as a result of a lack of knowledge of the disease among many health care professionals, accompanied in many cases by lack of s...

Management and Treatment of ME - Part II

by Dr Derek Pheby

Part 2 - People with ME have suffered over many years as a result of a lack of knowledge of the disease among many health care professionals, accompanied in many cases by lack of...

ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Causes and the Amygdala Retraining Recovery Programme

by Ashok Gupta

This article focuses on ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which affects approximately 250,000 people in the UK. However, as yet, there is no agreement in the medica...

ME a misunderstood and much maligned disease

by Dr Derek Pheby

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is an illness which for years has divided the medical profession, yet no-one who has experienced it, or who has had the responsibility of caring for ...

Meditation for ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Conditions

by Linda Hall

The author explains that stress, and the stress response, play an important role in the factors which lead up to ME, and then even more so as a response to the symptoms, as the s...

Never Mind ME - What About 'Blame-the-Patient' Syndrome?

by Nancy Blake

A group of psychiatrists led by Professor Simon Wesseley, have been able to establish the view that ME is a psychiatric condition which can be successfully treated by Cognitive Beh...

Not Superhuman After All

by Georgie Russell

In this article the author, a broadcast journalist, shares her personal experience with Glandular Fever, which in her case was caused by seriously overworked adrenal glands due to ...

Recovery from CFS / ME

by Denise Kingsley-Acton

The author begins with an overview of the rushed pace of life she used to lead - running her own business, involved in Green politics and studying for a Masters Degree. "It was all...

Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

by Uzma Qureshi

The author describes a ‘devastating’ illness, which began with recurrent ear infections, vertigo, and pain in her jaw. She began to have eye problems, then severe pains running fro...

Recovery from ME, Fibromyalgia and Depression with the Lightning Process

by Katherine Day

The author describes her descent into despair as a result of all the losses incurred as her ME/Fibromyalgia relapses meant leaving work, diminishing finances, strain on her marriage...

The Importance of Blood Flow and Evening Primrose Oil in ME

by Leslie Owen Simpson

This article by a medical researcher in the field of haemorheology, provides a full technical explanation of how this can explain the specific pattern of ME symptoms, and how relat...