I feel a lot better after drinking this tea - which ingredient(s) are likely to be responsible?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 4+ years
- Published
- Dec 2016
Summary
Two cups a day of a commercial bedtime herbal tea blend left this poster feeling "the most content I've felt in at least 4+ years," with a possible small cognitive lift, taking about 30 minutes to kick in each time. The report comes from very early in the trial, so durability is unknown, and her language stays tentative throughout ("tend to feel," "maybe even a little better").
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Trauma & somatic work, Herbal and Chinese medicine.
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