When applying hot compresses, a clean towel should be selected, soaked in hot water at 40-45 degrees Celsius, wrung out and applied to the affected area without burning sensation when touching the skin. It is best to cover the affected area with a clean cloth or cotton pad.

Generally change the towel every 5 minutes, preferably alternately. Each hot compress time 15-20 minutes, 3-4 times a day. Towel hot compress of common health care methods are the following ten kinds.

1. Relieve eye fatigue

Hot compress with a towel can promote blood circulation around the eyes, reduce eye fatigue, can partially relieve the symptoms of dry eyes, and the effectiveness of the eyes and brain.

2. Prevent deafness

Using a towel on the ear or gently rubbing it can improve blood circulation in the ear and prevent functional deafness caused by ischemia.

3. Improve dizziness

Putting a hot towel on the back of the head for several minutes at a time can stimulate the acupuncture points at the back of the head, which can improve the dizziness symptoms of some patients and also improve the reaction and thinking ability.

4. Cure pillow

Slightly fallen pillow can be hot towels on the affected area, and with the neck activities. Head slowly bend forward, gently forward and back left and right side rotation.

5. Prevention and control of cervical spondylosis

Early symptoms of cervical spondylosis, such as stiffness, soreness or mild pain in the neck after being cold, can be hot towel compresses to improve symptoms, promote blood circulation, relieve muscle spasm, prevent cervical spondylosis.

6. Relieve chronic lumbar spine pain

Lumbar spine pain with towel hot compresses, can relieve local symptoms, such as serious conditions should be promptly to the hospital.

7. Relieve hip pain

Stiff hip muscles with a slight dull pain, soreness and swelling pain, can lie down with a towel hot compress painful parts, can relieve the symptoms.

8. Treating dysmenorrhea or cold abdominal pain

Women with dysmenorrhea or abdominal pain caused by cold, can be hot towel compresses, can play a bruising, qi pain relief effect.

9. Bruises and injuries

Sports injury stress period can not be hot compress, can be in the injury occurred 2-3 days, such as no bleeding and no swelling, then available hot towel hot compress to relieve symptoms.

10. To go to the injection caused by hard knots

Gently compress the site of the hard knot after the injection, 30 minutes each time, while hot compress and rub, in order to promote blood circulation in the hard knot, accelerate the absorption of the drug.

When the injury site blistered or broken to form an "open wound", it is not suitable for hot towel compresses. The acute phase of the sprain is still bleeding, swelling is not suitable for hot compresses, should wait until the hemostasis, swelling after 48 hours and then hot compresses. Acute abdominal pain is not diagnosed and red-eye is not suitable for hot compresses with towels.