Fibromyalgia is manifested by a very varied set of symptoms for each patient. To the overall program prescribed by your doctor, it is possible to add natural treatments intended to fight against a particular symptom at the origin of the pain. Here are 5 natural therapies that can relieve fibromyalgia.
Today, in France, there are between two and three million people affected by fibromyalgia, the vast majority of women (nearly 80% of cases). However, this disease has long been forgotten, misunderstood by medicine.
Think: it was only in 1992 that theWHO officially recognized it. The European authorities were even slower to react, since France only did so in 2007 and Union services in 2008.
1. A pro-alkaline diet
Nutrition is the principal agent of the excess of acidity which makes the bed of the silent inflammation at the origin of the painful phenomena. The carbohydrate impact of foods (their intake of fast sugars) plays a role in many secondary symptoms: fatigue, sleep, weight gain, etc.
Adapting your daily diet becomes a real rebalancing agent that helps relieve fibromyalgia. As for the detox, it intervenes in an even more global way. Well-drained, depolluted, detoxified organs strengthen self-healing capacities.
Do not trivialize these basic detox tools on the pretext that they sometimes resemble grandmother’s recipes. People with fibromyalgia have much to gain from supporting the activity of their emunctory organs (kidneys, liver, intestine), because their elimination system is burdened by taking medication. By helping them, they can balance their overall metabolism and improve the effectiveness of their treatments.
Some simple food rules provide the body with what it needs to function, while limiting foods that have a deleterious effect on metabolism, especially those that increase internal acidity, and those that have a significant glycemic impact.
Here are the basic dietary rules to relieve fibromyalgia:
- Limit your consumption of sugars and refined cereals (sweets, white bread, pastries, pre-cooked rice, industrialized foods, etc.). These foods have an acidifying effect and a violent impact on the regulation of blood sugar levels (glycaemia). They feed both pain, fatigue, sleep disorders…
- Choose seafood and poultry over red meat. The latter is very acidifying. And do not exaggerate with the quantities: 150 to 200 g per day are more than enough.
- Increase your vegetable intake. They contain minerals that oppose the acidifying effect of other foods, while having a very limited impact on blood sugar. They also provide the body with many valuable nutrients: vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes, etc.
- Do not forget legumes (lentils, beans, chickpeas…). Their glycemic impact is reasonable, they provide vitamins and minerals, as well as vegetable proteins.
- As for cereals (bread, pasta, rice…), choose them complete or semi-complete. Their glycemic impact will be lower, they will be richer in nutrients, and they will provide proteins which, together with those of legumes, will allow you to replace part of the meat you usually eat without your body suffering from a deficiency.
2. A detox of emunctories
By better eliminating your waste (starting with the residues of the medications you take), you will help your metabolism overall. For this, it suffices to do herbal cures regularly targeted on the organs of elimination (the emunctories) in order to stimulate them and support them in their task.
- For the liver: artichoke, black radish, desmodium, milk thistle… Make a cure of one of these plants (or a mixture) for three weeks, once per quarter.
- For the kidneys: orthosiphon, mouse-ear, meadowsweet… Also do a three-week cure, once a quarter, of a plant or a mixture.
- A small focus on heavy metals and aluminum: these substances are suspected of playing a role in the onset and evolution of fibromyalgia. You risk nothing by including in your program a cure of micro-algae which facilitate their elimination: klamath, chlorella, spirulina… Also proceed by cure of three weeks, once per quarter.
- Always make sure to observe an 8-10 day break when switching from one plant to another.
3. Homeopathy to relieve fibromyalgia
This medicine treats with infinitesimal doses. Plants, minerals or animals are extremely diluted in the granules, the choice of which must respect as much as possible the way in which the person manifests his symptoms. The choice therefore belongs to the homeopathic doctor who will be able to observe you to establish the treatment. This can help relieve fatigue, reduce sleep disorders, reduce pain, calm digestive, skin or urinary disorders…
4. Essential oils
These extremely concentrated plant extracts are delicate to handle orally. This mode of administration is reserved for the therapist. Apart from any prescription, it is however possible to use them in massage, in friction, in baths, in inhalation…
Essential oils help manage many symptoms. The lavender and the yellow tangerine lower stress levels and improve sleep. L’black spruce is stimulating. The Wintergreen relieves local pain. To name just a few examples that can help relieve fibromyalgia.
5. Yoga
Among all the mind-body techniques whose practice can help you relieve fibromyalgia, the yoga is arguably the most effective. Train yourself with a teacher, then perform at home, morning and evening, the postures (the asanas) that bring you peace of mind.
Among other things, yoga helps to restore sleep, soothe nervous tension, boost metabolism, improve joint mobilityto dissolve muscle tension, to reduce pain…
This is how, by organizing the program that suits “your” fibromyalgia, you improve your well-beingwill reduce your symptoms and gradually find a bearable, even pleasant daily life.
It is by thus becoming an “actor” of your healing that you will first manage to living better with your fibromyalgia, then silence her. Because it is possible! There is no talk of a cure for fibromyalgia, but it is possible to reduce the symptoms to the point of forgetting it. Which, in the end, amounts to almost the same…
