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Hmm. I think we don't have enough information. Skeeve the Great Send a noteboard - 19/11/2010 07:40:30 PM

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.


I agree with you that LTT wouldn't have complete knowledge of what was developed after he went mad. But I doubt something was done. There are two facts that we know of:
1) the Opening of the Bore destoyed the only likely place that had any potential ability to Heal the taint madness. Granted, there are could be other places where the Great Healers of AoL would have survived, but I doubt it. And besides, I would think that they have their hands full with other stuff that was happening.
2) from Rand's visit through glass columns, we saw how mad channeler destroys all his Aiel. It took a long time and there was never mentioning of some kind of "Healing" that would have been done to stop him. Only helpless Aiel Singing to calm him down. That should inform us that there were none at this time.

As to what Ishamael said to LTT, I agree with FT. Most likely he ment that there is a weave that grants few minutes of sanity and that's precisely what he did.
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