Paradoxical treatment

Also coacting treatment. The nonroutine principle of treating false signs with medicinals of opposite nature, e.g., treating heat with heat, cold with cold, the stopped by stopping, and flow by promoting flow. Treating cold with cold, for example, means using heavy does of heat-clearing toxin-resolving agents to treat exuberant heat in externally contracted febrile disease presenting with false signs of cold such as aversion to cold or shivering, and cold of the limbs. Compare straight treatment.