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Digitalpun

Can we post interesting peer reviewed research about CFS treatments we have come across here?

I have a couple of reviews that I have found that I like. I am also looking at some more experimental stuff. Someone I know said that Qi Gong greatly improved his CFS helping to take him from bed bound to working full time, though I can find little in the literature. He did tell me that he has sent some people to the guy he saw and that about half of them improved to varying degrees and half got no benefit, which actually made me believe that it was helpful more than if he said everyone got better.

Does anyone have any research on alternative treatments? Eastern medicine and what not? Reiki or crystals or something? I am not really all that woo woo to be honest, but I have been so disappointed with western medicine that I feel like there is no harm in trying some other stuff (that doesn't involve brain retraining and is in line with pacing).

Anyway, the reviews I like are:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1386607/full

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619623004020

Posted Mar 10, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

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