Tiredness

Tiredness.  
Tiredness is disturbing because often it can not be explained, sometimes, however one, knows the reasons. Chronic tiredness may have underlying chronic diseases like anaemia, hypoglycemia (low bl sugar threshold) ,thyroid gland disorder or Diabetes or even major illnesses like Tuberculosis and malignancy. Once we know the cause it is much easier to tackle the problem.
Tiredness can't be termed a disease but a reflection of symptoms from within the body. There can be many reasons for it. Some physical and other mental. Being tired has killed no one,through it does prevent one from enjoying good health. Chronically tired people lack the  energy to do the things they enjoy doing.Hence they are irritable most of the time..
Once we know that there is no major disease causing the lethargy, then before starting any medicene the following action should be taken.
Fittenes diet.
Ten to twelve glasses of water should be consumed at different intervals, so also lots of vegetables, seasonal fruit, grams, peanuts a few almonds, oats porridge in the morning with milk or water and one or two glasses of skimmed milk. Eat small quantities at short intervals. Remember don't fill your stomach completely because in order to digest the food the blood supply to the stomach increases and you may, as a result, feel drowsy and lethargic and want to sleep.
Skipping meals doesn't help reduce wait effectively. People who skip breakfast are less agile and slow in their work. A well balanced healthy breakfast produce stamina.
Avoid or minimise the intake of high fat food like chocolate, fried food, sweets and too much meat. The intake of coffee and tea should be controlled because they contain toxic waste products like urea, Uric Acid, cholesterol and triglycerides which bring down the sharpness of body and mind.
This is potent weapon to combat tiredness. Walking, jogging, cycling, running and swimming are very effective aerobic exercises They help in increasing your blood circulation which brings nutrients and oxygen to the muscles and other organs of the body and sweeps away fatigue causing waste products such as Carbondioxide and lactic acid. Exercise not only evens out blood sugar levels, it also strength the body's energy generating machinery and recharges the mental processes..
You wake up one morning with a nameless pain in the calf, foot or any other part of the leg. It hurts more when you stand or touch it. You think you might have knocked it aganist some object, a table or another piece of furniture without knowing it,or you may have walked or worked much more than your normal practice. This may even be your daily morning complaint of feeling pain In some part of the body accompanied by general tiredness. Your body feels bruised and sore as if you have been beaten up and you just want to lie down and rest.
If you know your next day's programme is going to be hectic with more physical activities than your normal routine, take Arnica 200 , 5 pills four times a day. Take it one day prior to the busy day, on the day itself and the following day. This will help in keeping your physical fatigue under check, and even if you feel tired it will be bearable
Hard work and study cause burning along the spine with a dull throbbing headache. Such headache start From the base of the brain, going along the spine. The slightest excitement or mental exertion brings on the headaches, burning along the spine and weaknesses in the legs and the back. Picric Acid. This has proved to be one of the best medicine for brain fag. Picric Acid 200 C 5 pills four times a day is the treatment.
Fear causes tiredness
Fear causes tiredness, for example in students the Very thought of exams causes it, This fear brings on nervousness trembling, a feeling of dulnness , lethargy and drowsiness.
The student just wants to lie down and complains of extreme. sleepiness with a dull headache every time he wants to study.give Gelsemium 200 five pills four times a day, the fear subsides.
So does low blood sugar
Hypoglycemia means abnormally low blood sugar, for diagnostic purposes the blood sugar level is supposed to be less than 40mg per cent, but this figure is arbitrary. You may,in fact, experience symptoms of hypoglycemia even when the blood sugar is somewhat higher. The symptoms are exterme tiredness a low feeling, hunger, dull headache and a dry mouth. This can happen to a diabetic who takes insulin regularly, or if you have gone without food or drink for many hours. Certain drugs like sulphas, oral antidiabetic agents and aspirin can also cause these symptoms, so can large amounts of alcohol.
Treatment.
Take small meals more frequently, specially of complex carbohydrates like oats, bran Poha, fruits, vegetables and proteins, drink lots of water. Avoid sugar directly or indirectly in sweets, chocolates, etc, Saccharum off30, five pills four times a day, regularises the blood sugar level.
Arnica after mental fatigue
Dr. Margaret Tyler writes that a dr friend of hers was overfatigued mentally and physically and lost interest in his work. His usual self confidence disappeared, so that he began to doubt his prescriptions and wonderd, he had prescribed too much or even the wrong medicines he was never sure whether he had shut the door or had turned off the lights and had to go back to make sure By nature he was keenly alert and his change of mentality worried him. Arnica 1 m put him right in a few days, restoring perfectly both his memory and his self confidence.