Pyrotherapy

  Interestingly, the body's tendency to run a fever in case of infection is directly antibiotic and antiviral, a challenge between the body's ability to survive pasturizing itself, and the virii or bacterium's protiens ability to resist denaturation above physiologic temperature.



  The body can survive cooking itself, however, much more readily if only parts of it are cooking. Brain protiens usually experience difficulty at lower temperatures than the main body, but seem to take heating if the blood supply of the body is cool and can redissipate warmth. As such, heating the head and body seperately, or doing 'point heating' with hot rags, can safely allow temperatures far above what one can survive as a systemic fever, and saunas can reach astounding temperatures fairly safely as long as one has a lot of fresh, clean water to drink.

  The use of heat as an antibiotic or antiviral agent is historically called pyrotherapy.



  Boiled rags allowed to cool slightly and steam baths or saunas are the traditional known methods, and a study of the fascia, circulatory, and lymphatic systems can suggest optimal placement - though not always as good as "where does this flu ache?"

  To date, pyrotherapy remains the only general antiviral known, and one of the only treatments for broadly-antibiotic-resistant bacterium. Perhaps this historical curiosity can ease a time of illness.



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