Home Remedies for Fatigue Syndrome

Home Remedies for Fatigue #1: Alfalfa**—Medicago sativa
• Improves appetite, digestion; produces mental clarity and well-being.
• Increases stamina and strength, augments ability to respond to stress.
• For convalescence after long illness, extreme stress. Reduces toxicity.
• High in phytoestrogens, stimulates the body's hormone production.
• Note that alfalfa sprouts and especially seeds are potentially toxic.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #2: Astragalus*** —Milk Vetch/Astragalus membranaceous
• For general weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, shortness of breath.
• Adaptogenic herb that stimulates immune function, improves stamina.
• Anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial effects; good for flu, cold.
• Strengthens people with cancer, after radiation or chemotherapy.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #3: Cordyceps**—Cordyceps sinensis
• Builds strength, endurance, stamina and immunity. Reduces fatigue, promotes lung and kidney function. Increases blood flow to brain, heart.
• Increases male potency, female vitality. Improves appetite and sleep.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #4: Ginseng***—Panax Ginseng
• Strengthens adrenals, improves vitality and ability to handles stress.
• Improves physical and mental performance, stamina; enhances mood.
• Increases visual and motor coordination, increases work capacity.
• Antioxidant, inhibits formation of free radicals, stimulates immunity.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #5: Gotu Kola***—Centella asiatica
• Improves brain function, memory. Anti-stress, anti-anxiety, relaxant.
• Strengthens body's connective tissue and blood vessels, heals wounds.
• Tonic and rejuvenator, improves fertility, has anti-inflammatory effects.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #6: Licorice**—Glycyrrhiza glabra
• Provides steroid-like factors for the the body's own production of adren-
aline, cortisol; thus boosts adrenal function and adaptation to stress.
• Antiviral and immune-enhancing herb, valuable for weakened states.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #7: Maitake**—Grifola frondosa
• Immune-stimulating effects; increases activity of immune cells (killer
cells, etc.), as well as immune-modulating chemicals (interleukin 2).
• D-fraction has shown positive results in Epstein-Barr and chronic
fatigue; inhibits virus production, protects cells from attack by toxins.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #8: Oats***—Avena sativa
• Exhaustion from work, study, illness, drugs, alcohol, sexual excess.
• Nutritive effect on the brain, rather than temporary stimulatory effect.
• Greatly sharpens mental acuity, focus, memory before an exam etc..
• Eases heart palpitations, effective for insomnia due to overfatigue.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #9: Schisandra***—Schisandra chinensis
• Improves adrenal and nervous system capacity. Counteracts effects of
stimulants, coffee. Improves liver function and protects it from toxins.
• Increases work and efficiency level, improves mood, memory and sleep.
• Re-regulates immune system, helps skin problems, aphrodisiac effects.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #10: Siberian Ginseng***—Eleutherococcus senticosus
• Adaptogenic herb, excellent for exhaustion, fatigue, immune weakness.
• For effects of long stress (physical, emotional, mental) or after illness.
• Increases mental alertness, work output and athletic performance.
• Enhances adrenals, increases immunity and protects against toxins.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #11: St. John's Wort*—Hypericum perforatum
• Inhibits viral activity and replication of herpes virus and Epstein-Barr.
• Relieves depression that is a cause or effect of fatigue; improves sleep.

Home Remedies for Fatigue #12: Yerba Mate*—Ilex paraguariensis
• Stimulates like caffeine, but without causing nervousness; calms, bal-
ances the nervous system. Improves sleep and mood, reduces allergy.
• Antioxidant, increases oxygen to the heart and brain.