Nynaeve can Heal the taint. This isn't a new ability despite what some people think.
EoTW (Dragonmount) - "A pity for you... that one of your Sisters is not here. I was never very skilled at Healing... but even one of them could only give you a few lucid minutes."
Rand is shocked that Nynaeve can Heal the taint and he says that even in his Age, diseases of the mind were very hard to cure. That said, Lews Therin has no knowledge of the taint and the efforts to cure it, considering he was the first man ever to go insane.
It seems that very gifted Healers could probably remove the effect from a tainted male just like Nynaeve did. The problem is that the taint still existed on saidin, and within minutes of being Healed they would become tainted again. Its more than likely that they were even more open to the taint after being tainted once, and thus their ability to buy the man only a few lucid minutes. It thus became a self-limiting and futile exercise. In Nynaeve's case it's a wonderous cure, and in their case a silly one considering the disease was waiting to reinfest the man again.
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Nynaeve's new ability
- 18/11/2010 01:41:38 PM
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Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though.
- 18/11/2010 02:19:06 PM
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Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though.
- 18/11/2010 02:59:17 PM
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Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though.
- 18/11/2010 10:51:02 PM
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funny I was thinking about this just the other day and have much the same opinion
- 18/11/2010 02:19:45 PM
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That's not my interpretation.
- 18/11/2010 06:14:02 PM
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Re: That's not my interpretation.
- 18/11/2010 07:11:02 PM
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Even if we were to accept that as true...
- 18/11/2010 10:55:31 PM
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Maybe...
- 18/11/2010 11:18:08 PM
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Could be...
- 19/11/2010 03:01:35 AM
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None.
- 19/11/2010 03:20:35 AM
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As you wish.
- 19/11/2010 05:24:29 AM
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We're told exactly the opposite...
- 19/11/2010 05:47:31 AM
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Exactly.
- 19/11/2010 06:02:52 AM
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What are you arguing?
- 19/11/2010 06:50:58 AM
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Though I dread doing this, perhaps an analogy?
- 19/11/2010 06:16:30 PM
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You were right to dread...
- 19/11/2010 10:02:05 PM
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- 19/11/2010 10:02:05 PM
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Re: You were right to dread...
- 20/11/2010 06:25:53 PM
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- 20/11/2010 06:25:53 PM
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Re: You were right to dread...
- 20/11/2010 08:18:53 PM
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- 20/11/2010 08:18:53 PM
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Re: You were right to dread...
- 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM
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- 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM
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I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had are the same
- 18/11/2010 10:01:01 PM
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Re: I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had
- 18/11/2010 10:41:07 PM
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The answers to your questions are all in the Big White Book and other characters POVs
- 19/11/2010 04:11:03 PM
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Lots of reason to believe that the Taint was much stronger straight after the Breaking
- 26/11/2010 01:24:17 PM
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