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      Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction is not "alternative medicine" per se. It is in the Goljan Pathology board review book, a standard medical text.  It is discussed with respect to Syphilis specifically.  I first heard of it in the context of a discussion about Systemic Candidiasis, which may account for it's label as "alternative medicine." My opinion is that non-mainstream physicians get accused of over-diagnosing Systemic Candidiasis, but that is only because main-stream physicians are under-diagnosing it.  I just got my Candida titers back from the lab and they were definitely high, so my physician (an MD who is board certified in Internal Medicine) put me on fluconazole for 4 days