As a general rule fever is considered something bad that needs to be fought. In reality it is the result of the effort made by the body to defend itself against an infection or a poison.
Fever is the expression of this protective work. The intensified functioning of the various organ systems involved in the defense response heats up the body, hence the rise in temperature. Striving to eliminate a fever amounts to opposing the body’s natural defense mechanisms; in other words, countering the healing efforts that are implemented as nature intended.
This book explains just what fever is and how to assess its various manifestations and the different stages through which it passes. It also describes how to maintain a fever to achieve true healing and how to control a fever when it becomes too fierce. The techniques provided are simple, natural, and accessible to everyone. They are all based on a commonsense approach and include procedures for treatment based on diet, hydrotherapy, and the use of medicinal herbs.
The majority of fevers are caused by infection. This book will not discuss anti-germ strategies, however. The use of natural antibiotics is a subject in its own right, which I covered in great detail in my book on natural alternatives to antibiotics.1
The advice offered in this book for treating a fever should not be regarded as a substitute for the care and follow-up treatment of a trained health professional. Some fevers can conceal dangerous infections that the overeating, stressed out humans of the twenty-first century, whose bodies are weakened by regular exposure to toxins and pollutants, cannot vanquish all on their own. Stronger measures will sometimes be called for. Good common sense should always be used: anything that cannot be easily mastered should be left to the care of a professional.
This book will also describe how to create an artificial fever as a means of treating the body in advance. In other words, we can employ fever as a preventive tool to renew the cellular terrain of the body before the toxins stagnating there can trigger any kind of disease. This book therefore addresses both readers who are sick and seeking care as well as those who are healthy and wish to remain so.