It's called a Herxheimer reaction (aka Herxheimer's revenge). Eg, medical treatment can destroy a pathogen, releasing endotoxins which make you even more ill than you were before, and overwhelm the liver. (Endotoxins are part of the pathogen's "body", only released when it dies, as opposed to the exotoxins that it excretes.) I think there are other ways this can happen, it depends on the illness.
Best Keith >Luke: > >Have you ever noticed that when washing a bucket, the water gets >dirty before it gets clean. If only a portion of the bucket is >dirty, when you clean it you get the rest of the bucket dirty before >it gets clean. For a more comprehensive understanding you could >probably google "healing crisis" >I have recently started trying the oil pulling method and I think it >is beneficial. I think it was either at a DMSO list or perhaps >Whitegold list it was posted as well. > >Wes > > > >Luke wrote: > >Luke Hansen >Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:51:15 -0800 > >I'm always a little skeptical of miracle cures that >tell you that getting sicker is a step towards getting >better ;P _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
