I just wanted to clarify the appropriate way to use diaphoretic herbs to aid in managing/breaking a fever. Would one still reference the standard dosage recommendations on the MM for that herb? If the herbs standard recommendation is 3-4 cups a day - are you drinking that in a shorter time span to treat an acutely elevated temperature. Or still spreading it out throughout the day? Is there any contraindications to drinking these diaphoretic hot teas in the case of a fever that is 103 or 104? As there is a benefit to fevers, do you ever not recommend these herbal therapeutics? Or adjust the dose/administration in the case of a low grade fever? Thank you in advance for your time.

No, one cup of hot tea or a tincture in hot water will usually do it. For high fevers you use Febrifuges or cool baths. Fever management is important, fevers inhibit viral replication, I do not lower fevers until the person feels hot and has a temperature over 101.5- 102, the more difficult situation in young children who spike really high fevers - see the pediatrician and people who have fevers over 102 and still feel cold, whioh means the body wants the fever to go higher to a more dangerous level. I do not treat low grade fevers, just manage symptoms and discomfort.