and I gotta say I really appreciate the wisdom that his post was tempered with !

Any medication should be done in a quarantine regardless of what the medication packaging says. But I believe as well that many fish diseases are symptomatic of environment. Healthy happy fish WILL miraculously rebound from disease almost overnight. There is always the possiblity of introducing disease from rotten tanks, but again if you properly quarantine the fish before they go into the system it's sure a whole lot easier than netting them back out, and disrupting a healthy display.

I only know of a handful of what I would call effective remedies. I'm sure many help to some degree, and I know several only make things worse. But they ALL have no place in a planted tank.

I'm sure this all sounds very vague, and out of context. Perhaps if you would be so kind as to define which disease you're treating we could be of better service ?