- Trauma
- Acute inflammation
- Muscular tension
- Warm and cold treatments can both affect the inner organs. There are two types of treatments: heat therapy and cryotherapy. Traumas and acute inflammations require cold; chronic inflamation and mucous-membrane inflammation require warmth.
Warmth causes:
- Drowsiness
- Reduction of the muscle tone (= relaxation) of the smooth and skeletal musculature
- Improvement of blood circulation
