Barbara rightly said that Antibiotics DO and antifungal meds MAY be anti-inflammatory agents, explaining why some women seem to do better on meds, but worsen when they come off. In fact the penicillins raise phagocytic clearance rates but depress those natural mechanisms, so that at the end of a course the body is slighlty immuno-suppressed, and if the cause of the problem has not been addressed, inflammation rebound or infectious growth are almost inevitable. GV's virtue is its topical effects and persistence and gradual decline in strength as it's washed off, without altering systemic immune capacity. (In most situations I like old-fashioned methods of reducing fever for the same reason: don't want to alter systemic balance capacity , just give the natural mechanisms a helping hand when overloaded or not coping. So clothes off and tepid sponging not paracetamol for kids having mild vaccination reactions, for example.) MM > *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html