<<< I agree about this ice and antiinflatmmatory thing. I think people are
using ice/antiinflamatory too much to think they are getting healing. >>>

I've always suspected this given the stuff I've been reading in natural
hygene and naturopathic medicine. We have a modern love affair with
resisting every attempt of the body to heal itself, and like you I believe
that tactic should be limited to times when the body's response is too
painful and debilitating and needs to be moderated. Even Arnold Ehret, the
guru of fasting, said that detoxification can usefully be "regulated as to
speed" given the fact that often the process can be painful and, if it
happens too fast, even dangerous.

But when I get fever, which causes chills because the body wants to be hot,
I cooperate and help the body get comfortably warm. I've actually read
advice to do the opposite, to try to kill the fever with cold. CRAZY idea!
Since the fever is there to "burn" away something that shouldn't be there.
Now if it gets dangerously high and/or disruptive, I am for regulating it
even if it requires, god forbid, a Tylenol. Once someone said in an article
that when you feel a cold first coming on, bundle up and go for a light jog
so that you are hot and sweaty. This may head it off by helping the body
"fever" it away.

I talked with someone who was describing a store called "Bano" which is a
health spa that specializes in alternating immersion in hot and cold water.
This is thought to invigorate the body in unique ways. While I haven't gone
there yet, I do a similar thing in the shower. I've been persuaded as of
late that many of the best things for our body and mind involve some sort of
alternation between extremes (fast and slow, tension and release, hot and
cold, high and low singing, "ins and outs" eye exercises, and so on).

Billy