Spaw says: "Investigate all possibilities. Never rely on an alternative treatment especially when you really don't know what you're dealing with. Make use of all the resources at your disposal including the technology and advances made medicine".

Sage advice. I will say, however, that (statistically speaking) women do tend moreso to seek medical advice when there is a problem, and as a female I have written from several presumptions therein. In issues such as Chronic Fatigue and PMS, my experience has been that the medical community as a whole has little to offer. Certainly, I would agree that one should look to more traditional medicine for diagnoses, but if you can't get any satisfaction there (and I personally have tried for more than 15 years with regards to Chronic Fatigue), then why not look into other things? I would also agree that, looking means doing the research to find out if a thing may do more harm than good.

Still, I'd love to hear of folks home remedies...I am always interested in hearing what has worked for others.