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
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