Fatigue

Each of these causes above create hundreds of unique fatigue presentations. I have helped patients dealing with fatigue manifesting with:

• Brain Fog
• Difficulty getting through work
• Difficulty waking up
• Sluggish through the morning
• Difficulty exercising
• Low libido
• Social isolation
• Overwhelm
• Irritability
• Depression
• Chronic fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• Perceived lack of vibrancy
• Difficulty completing life tasks like house cleaning and paying bills
• Falling asleep earlier than wished or at inconvenient times

As you can imagine, each person’s fatigue is unique and has its own Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and individual treatment plan based on your combined symptoms, pulse and tongue. In order to resolve the fatigue, we together work on rebalancing the underlying cause.

Here are a couple of examples of how Chinese Medicine might look at your fatigue:

The liver, the wood element organ, is in charge of helping us to metabolize stress. If stress and overwork are chronic, this impedes the smooth flow of energy in the body, which is regulated by the liver. This resulting stagnation causes inefficiency in all body functions and can result in fatigue. Liver qi stagnation, as we refer to it, can be resolved by preventing and moving stagnation with acupuncture, herbs, supplements and modifications to lifestyle.

The kidneys, the water element organ, are our deep energetic storage, our bio-batteries or our energetic 401K. We want to make sure that this system is protected and nourished by maintaining a proper work/life balance, resting in varying amounts through the year and week or after severe illness or life stress and getting enough sleep.

Acupuncture can be very helpful for fatigue including specific points for insomnia, treatments for “nourishing the yang energy” of the body, treatments for “draining dampness” and treatments for “balancing the digestive qi”.

Much in the same way that acupuncture is tailored to each person’s Chinese Medicine fatigue diagnosis, there are a variety of Chinese herbal formulas and supplements that can uniquely address your particular diagnosis and symptoms and augment the work of the acupuncture.

Sometimes it’s hard to even think about what supplements to take, how to eat, important  lifestyle changes that will make an impact, setting boundaries with your colleagues, friends or family or just seeing where there might be alternative ways of approaching life. Having the support of regular acupuncture, regular accountability, regular assessment and awareness go a long way toward turning the ship around.

Would you like to have a conversation about what it would look like to work on this project together?