Optimal doses of barley as a food or supplement have not been established for any condition. However, to try to lower cholesterol, people have used one of these daily doses: 1  3 grams of barley oil extract. 2  30 grams of barley bran flour.
Your body creates sweat when your internal core temperature becomes too high, since moisture naturally cools your body. The same concept is true should you find yourself wet while in cold weather or sweaty after a strenuous workout. Towel off and find dry clothes to raise your core body temperature again.
A fever occurs when the body increases in temperature. Most common cause of this is an infection of some kind. The White blood cells that eat the infection, release chemicals that go to the brain and tell it to raise the temperature of the body. The brain has a set point for our temperature, 98.6F.