in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a bo

in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a boil, all the yuck comes out. Oddly this has parallels in emotional therapy too. Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline response. Humans are complex!