Hummingbirds and maca.

[awils1]

Questions for the lovely and supporting people here:

1. Has anybody tried the herb maca? It’s quite expensive here in Australia, but if people with fibromyalgia and CFS (or one or the other) have had good experiences with it, I’m willing to shell out.
2. Also, I’d love to read some opinions on A Hummingbird’s Guide-merely the ramblings of conspiracy

Comments

[anonymous]

Simon Wessely was interviewed in last week's New Scientist (a UK science news magazine)

The article is here, there are 300 comments. Hopefully they will print some letters in reply this week.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126997.000-when-illness-is-mostly-in-the-mind.html

[elettaria]

Good grief, I hope that article isn't taken too seriously. Has that idiot doctor not noticed that the main problem with ME management is that we're all trying to do too much, rather than sinking back and enjoying being ill?

[anonymous]

"Idiot doctor"? I don't think idiot is the word, he must know full well what he is doing, but he is apparently paid by the insurance companies to help them deny our claims. What good would it do him to accept the evidence?

[obscenely]

1. Don't try herbs without speaking to someone who knows what theyr're doing (a naturopath? Or more specifically a herbalist). I'm not assuming yout hink this way, but I hate the general 'it's natural so it can't hurt' way of thinking.

2. I don't gel well with the Hummingbird's guide website and it's view of CFS always being a misdiagnosis (even if I believe ME is a more appropriate name). But I don't doubt that there is a lot of other useful information presented.