Pretreatment of the infected rat models with doses of the traditional energy tonic (100 and 20 mg/mL/kg body weight) before infection nonsignificantly increased cytokines secretion (IL-1β, IL-2, IL-10, IL-13, IFN-γ, and RANTES), while others did not change when compared to those with infection only. The gene discussed is IL13; the disease is infection.