Our bodies are not designed to become ill, they are designed to become healthy. Sickness helps build a child's immune system. I believe in a connection between the mind and the body.
People get sick for various reasons, emotional as well as physical.
The present method for dealing with sickness in American society is to treat the symptoms so that the sickness will disappear instead of finding the cause or reason for the symptoms. Children's drugs supress symptoms of the immune system in action. A fever happens because the body increases its heat to kill viruses. By lowering a fever, it prolongs the viruses stay. A runny nose is an initial response of the immune system pushing out the virus in the mucous.