Even in conventional medicine your body going through symptoms is a detox routine. Elevated fever may do damage to your own enzymes for example but it also kills what ever toxins are present in your body. Fevers in most adults is not that harmful and it really is scary for young kids.

Eating less food when you are sick is also a way for your body to detox and to recycle and renew yourself.

Almost as if we naturally know that to detox we need to fast.