“Heat therapy is based on the principle that warmth relaxes muscles, dulls pain and reduces the inflammatory process in the body. Heat also promotes discharges of boils and abscesses.

Heat can be applied to relieve stomach cramps during periods or due to digestive upsets. Heat helps alleviate aches caused by sudden muscular spasms.”

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