What treatments HAVE ACTUALLY helped?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Jul 2010
Summary
Used acupuncture and Chinese herbs and, after 5 years of illness, recovered fully and stayed well for 8 years before later relapsing. She is explicit that she doesn't claim the treatment caused the recovery, noting she personally knows over a dozen people with spontaneous recoveries and offering her case more as data than as an endorsement.
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Time / spontaneous, Herbal and Chinese medicine.
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