Debility

Debility is a broad medical term used to describe someone who is in a state of weakness and often refers to a loss of ability. When in a state of debility, everything seems an effort and what you used to enjoy doing now seems to take too much energy. The body is weakened and with it so is the immune system, leaving you vulnerable to a number of illnesses and infections that you would, under normal circumstances, fight off fairly easily.

Symptoms

 Debility is most commonly associated with recovery from physical illness or injury, it also affects those suffering from cognitive or emotional problems such as severe depression or stress. Whatever the cause, being in a state of debility usually leaves the person feeling easily fatigued or exhausted, physically weak and experiencing burn out. A feeling of exhaustion all or much of the time.

Some common symptoms includes:

• Weakness in whole body
• Mental Stress
• Tiredness
• Feeling lazy

Causes

The cause may also be the aftermath of some acute illness such as pneumonia or a viral fever. Weakness and debility following illness causes nutritional deficiency, which leads to depression. It then becomes a vicious circle of depression, loss of appetite, more weakness, and the cycle continues. A feeling of general weakness also results due to over-indulgence in heavy food, smoking, excessive intake of alcohol, narcotic drugs, or even heavy medication. However, it may not be any of these, but a general lack of energy, caused by a sedentary and lazy lifestyle. Sometimes people feel depressed without any reason. Common causes of debility includes :

• Common cold
• Cough
• Lack of food
• Too much hard work
• Anemia
• Mental Stress or thinking too much
• Fever

Popular treatment and recommendation

• Some weak individuals only need rest, fresh air, sunshine, pure water, nutritious meals, and freedom from worry.
• Some need to clean the toxins from their body. Those who do so, may feel weaker for a few days, but afterwards will generally feel much better and stronger.
• Over-indulgence in sex is an excellent way to debilitate the body. Worry wears out the life forces. The use of coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, and processed and junk foods are also sources of trouble.
• Live as healthfully as you can, in touch with nature.
• A good program of better nutrition, more rest, less tension, and taking time to go outdoors and work, walk or exercise 30-60 minutes at a time will do much to build the body.
• A cold morning shower invigorates the body.
• As an aid in rebuilding the body after acute or chronic illnesses, the following herbal formula is quite helpful. It combines nutritional benefits with herbal tonics. Mix together 28 grams parsley root, 28 grams alfalfa; 14 grams of each of the following: dandelion root, comfrey root, yellow dock root, burdock root, nettles leaves, and dulse. Place in an uncovered pot with a quart of water and simmer for 20 minutes. Let it cool, then strain. Place the liquid back in the pot and simmer uncovered for one hour or until it is reduced to one cup.
• Stir in one cup of unsulphured blackstrap molasses and refrigerate. Take one tablespoonful 3 times a day.
• Avoid spicy, fried foods, and always eat freshly cooked meals. Modern conveniences such as refrigerators, microwave cookers/ ovens, cut and polythene-wrapped vegetables, pre-cooked processed foods, to which additives have been added to increase shelf-life, have given rise to people eating food which lack or are deficient in energy-giving vital substances, such as vitamins and trace elements, as well as minerals. Pharmaceuticals race to produce those vital substances in the laboratory in better and better forms, with more absorbability. But there is nothing to beat the form in which they are available in nature.
• Eat more fiber rich carbohydrates (Sugar, Bread, Cake, Puddings etc).
• Eat plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables and salads. Tonic herbs include parsley, chives, sweet cicely and asparagus. They are specific for healing and convalescence related to liver, kidney disorders and arthritis.
• Drink more water.
• Superfoods such as maca (lepidium meyenii), chia seeds (salvia hispanica) and goji berries (lycium barbarum) may be a good help, as they provide a lot of nutrients in a healthy and natural way.

Prevention

• Exercising regularly for strengthening the muscles.
• Eat less or no animal protein.
• Use less salt and sugar in your diet.
• Avoid smoking and alcohol

References

• http://pathlights.com/nr_encyclopedia/
• http://www.nativeremedies.com/ailment/debility-exhausted-body-weakness.html
• http://www.best-home-remedies.com/general_ailments/debility.htm