Since young, I have been exposed to the ways of the traditional method of removing body heat when I catches the cold. My late grandparents used to apply the methods on to me. Now growing up, I'm applying the same methods to my kids. I decided to leave some notes on these methods after my kids tested positive for Covid-19, had fever & the medicine intakes like paracetamol don't help because the internal digestive system do not function properly when the body was too heaty. Luckily one of the method I used( egg rolling) still working & manage to make the kids more comfortable.

First Method : Rolling the boiled eggs on to the body.

This method is the most gentle method among the methods I'm writing. There will not be any physical pain after applying this method. The effectiveness is the least effective among the methods stated.

1) Boiled the eggs using slow fire (around 3~4 pieces, some egg yolk position may not be at the center when the egg solidified & couldn't be used ).

2) Make sure the eggs properly solidified, let the boiled eggs cold to warm temperature slightly above body temperature. How to know ? When you touch the eggs surface, you will feel warm, not too hot until can burn the skin. Cannot use the cold egg.

3) Peel of the the shell of the egg. The peeled egg should look like below ( I used the cloth diaper to hold the egg because the egg was slightly hot).



4) If the egg is too hot, you may want to use a layer of thin cloth to wrap the egg before rolling the egg to the body. If the egg is at warm temperature, you can just proceed to roll the egg on to the body. Roll the egg at the chest area until the egg turn cold / started to break into pieces.



5) If the body is heaty, the removed body heat will caused the solidified egg yolk a lot of small spheres being formed at the surface of the solidified egg yolk like images below.





6) Continue rolling the remaining boiled eggs to the body until the there was no more sign of small spheres form on the surface of the solidified egg yolk after the rolling process. Refer to the images below.





Immediate after effect of the rolling, the kids immediately stop crying & started to sweat. The medicine taken earlier also started to be effective ( the digestive system start to function properly). This method is suitable for the kids.

Second Method : 刮痧 (Gua Sha )

This method is usually used if the first method do not stop the heat in the body to build up. At Indonesia, the same method is known as Kerokan. There will be mild physical pain to the body during the procedure & after the procedure.

1) The materials needed are the Imada Red Flower Oil ( can use any other oil if cannot find, the oil is to lubricate the skin surface) & the spoon / Gua Sha stone or knife.

2) The oil will first be applied to the back of the body. Do that note the area of the target is totally different from the egg rolling. Egg roll at the chest , Gua Sha is at the back of the body.

3) After lubricating the surface with the oil, the practitioner will start to scrap the surface of the body ( back body ) downward with force, from center to the external. If there is 痧 Sha, the skin surface will turn dark red / purple easily. Sometimes, if the practitioner cannot find the suitable spoon or Gua Sha stone, the coin will be used as substitute.

Images of the 刮痧 taken from the Internet as below :


Indonesia Kerokan


刮痧

Immediately after the 刮痧, the patient will start to sweat & feel the "heaviness" in the head disappear . This method is best applied to primary school kids & adult.

Third Method : 拉 痧 (La Sha )

This method is usually used if the second method do not stop the heat in the body to build up. This method is the most vigorous & painful. The pain is almost few times the pain of the second method. It is the extension of the 2nd Method but the targeted areas are more focus.

1) The materials needed are the Imada Red Flower Oil ( can use any other oil if cannot find, the oil is to lubricate the skin surface) & hand (brute force).

2) The oil will first be applied to the back of the body. Do that note the area of the target is more focuses at certain spot. Due to the reduce area, the pressure applied is tremendous higher than 刮痧. Even adult will cry during the process.

3) The practitioner will pull the skin surface of the patient & lifted it at perpendicular direction to the surface at repeated high pace. The targeted spot are usually the back of the shoulder - splenius , trapezoid muscle , temple at the head (left & right ) & glabella.

Images of 拉痧(La Sha ) I found in the internet.





To my knowledge, Method 1 & 2 are still widely practice by the Chinese's household. The 3rd Method is slowly disappearing. Only the older generation will know about it & still practicing it.

So, what are other method you use at home to reduce excessive body heat ? Kindly share if there is any other methods.

drink more water

The body already under the mechanism to reject any water or food intake, whatever consumed will be accumulate inside the stomach & cause further discomfort. Not working.

Need to reduce the body heat until your internal organs can function normally. Then only start drinking more water or take paracetamol.

I see..maybe could try bathing with lukewarm water, avoid water that is too cold or too hot

Drink herbal tea lah

When I was young, my grandma also use the 1st method which is to roll and rub boiled egg on my body. However, there is a slight variation to this. She inserted a coin, usually 20 sens coin inside the egg before she start rubbing it. Till today I'm not sure what's the purpose of putting coin inside The coin inside will turn into darker color after she finished rubbing on my body

Yes, some put coin some put silver ring. If the body is heaty, the metal surface will be oxidized due to the heat & turn dark. Just a method to validate if the body was really heaty( what being told to me).

This post has been edited by nihility: Mar 17 2022, 12:44 PM

Not going to work when your digestive system already being interrupted by the exessive heat.

Normally after one of these method applied, take the paracetomal immediately when the digestive system start working back.

another method that the older generation practice is they use the flour dough, insert a coin , 5 or 10 cent and rub your upper part of the body. that egg yolk gave me a goosebump

You is the 2nd ppl within the LYN who highlighted the flour dough with coin. I guess this method is disappearing from the household practice.

1 thing I can observe was both flour dough & boiled egg exhibits similar characteristic - solid state but still show some softness characteristic. If based on this observation, any non-Newtonian fluid is available within the household can be used as the substitute if the main ingredient like egg or flour is not available.

I made some further reading on the Method of Flour Dough with egg & coin , surprisingly it lead to the more detailed article about Zhu Mao Tan (猪毛丹).

The Method 1 as stated earlier was not method of removing heat as according to the detailed explanation from this external blog. It was one of the diagnosis method. The flour & dough also one of the diagnosis method. They have solution to this illness upon diagnosis called Mao Tan Powder from local Chinese TCM shops.

Another unique method to diagnose is using the green mung bean. Feed the patient ( with teeth ) the raw green mung beans, if the taste is horrible , it is not Zhu Mao Tan (猪毛丹), if the raw green beans tasted nice like roasted peanuts, it is Zhu Mao Tan (猪毛丹).

The written article also stated about the keep reoccurring fever that doesn’t want to go away even after the modern medicine consumption like paracetamol.

Here the link I read from the external, google show risky security warning on the link - not secured .👇

http://jbhhealthtips.blogspot.com/p/zhu-mao-tan.html?m=1

Don't be misled with the scam treatment
God stick treatment , their called

scam treatment?

The egg yolk change shape and back skin big bruised

but y u called it a scam?

After u pay the package ,u will believe is really effective

paid wat package?

Piap. Piap massage therapy package

Don't get the idea wrong, the purpose of this topic is to explore any other traditional method which can be adopted within the household usage. When mentioned household usage, it means usually the elderly within the family will applies one of this method to their younger generation.