This is what my "Essential Oil Desk Reference" says:
Fibromyalgia is an autoimmune disorder of soft tissues. (In contrast, arthritis occurs in the joints.) Symptons include general body pain, in some parts worse than others, usually brought on by short periods of exercise. The pain is ubiquitous and continous. It interrupts sleep patterns so that the fourth stage of sleep is never attained, and thus the body cannot refuvenate and heal. Fibromyalgia is an acid condition in which the liver is toxic.
Fibromyalgia may be linked to a deficiency of minerals, and trace minerals, including organic sulfur, which naturally occurs in MSM. According to UCLA researcher, Ronald Lawrence, M.D.,Ph.D., supplementation with MSM offers a breakthrough in the treatment of fibromyalgia.
Here is a regimen suggested by the book and using the products of this company:
1. Start cleansing by using Cleansing Trio
2. Use 2 Tbsp a day of Sulferzyme (a natural MSM supplement)
3. Eat less acidic-ash foods and more alkaline-ash foods such as wheat or barley sprouts.
If you are interested in some alkalinizing supplements I can give you a list.
This information comes from The Herbal Healer Academy, where I get my courses:
DETOXING CHRONIC CANDIDA
AND OTHER FUNGALS
REFLUX, CHRONIC BLOATING, CONSTIPATION, CHRONIC ANEMIA, INFLAMMATORY DISEASE, FIBROMYALGIA, LUPUS (very severe infection), GWS, CHRONIC RASHES, SEBORRHEA, PSORIASIS, CANCERS and a host of other diagnosed ailments are all linked to a systemic (in the blood stream) Fungal - Mycoplasm Infection. Once this infection is in the blood stream, it can affect any organ giving people many different types of symptoms. Dr. McCain was able to document this finding using her Live Field Microscopy equipment. In every case above, chronic, systemic candida was found in the blood stream! This infection goes undiagnosed by the medical community and each ailment is treated for symptoms with no hope of any cure. All these ailments above have been helped by the following supplemental protocol.
Candida (fungal infection) can go systemic, into the blood stream and cause joint pain that is often confused with arthritis. Use of antibiotics and chemotherapy the number one cause, but diet, environmental toxins can also play a role in the infection. It can also affect the liver, causing rashes, the kidneys causing severe back pain and poor kidney function, etc. When it's in the blood stream it can infect anywhere. That is why there are so many ailments tied into this condition. Chronic fungal infection can also deplete the iron in the blood causing low energy and anemia. Leg cramps, twitching legs and general body stiffness is also due to the inflammatory nature of the fungal as well as the fact that it depletes the calcium in the body too. This leads to the cramping. Chronic infection when left untreated gets progressively worse and is always present with Fibromyalgia, Cancer, Lupus, GWS, Gerds, and a host of other misdiagnosed ailments.
I can give you a list of products recommended by this company as well for a long-term maintenance program to rid yourself of the infection.
A few oils you may consider for a massage on the area of pain is Douglas fir and white fir, and I can recommend some oil blends from Young Living if you are interested, for massaging into the area of pain. You could try a hot compress over it afterwards to help the oils reach deeper into the tissues, as well as putting some into your bath.
So you can attack this from two areas, one, to heal the core reason of the sickness, and two, to relieve the symptons.
About the valerian, do you take it internally for sleeping and does it help you sleep better?
> I've had a bad case of fibromyalgia for the
> last 10 years.
> If anyone knows any natural remedies that
> have helped them I'm interested.
> Currently I use valerian, St John's wort and
> melatonin as sleep aids and I take OPC's
> (pycnogenol) for muscle pain.