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The New Science of Disease Recovery
When we get the flu, we feel miserable. We swallow pain relievers, drink lots of tea, slurp down chicken soup. None of these treatments actually eradicates the flu virus itself; our immune system eventually takes care of that. Instead, these remedies make us feel better by alleviating the symptoms: inflammation, dehydration, and congestion. “Most of what makes us sick is actually inflammation—the immune response—not the pathogen itself,” said Ruslan Medzhitov, an immunologist at Yale University.
Source: The Atlantic