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Hmmm.  I guess I just disagree with the use.  I am never going to put  
something that induces heat on a leg that's been working for a day,  
not 6 furlongs.

Clay is a drawing substance.  When you put cellophane on top of that,  
how is the clay to be effective?  It hits the cellophane and goes  
nowhere, and causes heat.  If it hits the paper bag, it's succeeded in  
its mission.

Other stuff like Furacin, OTOH, is used in sweats with cellophane to  
sweat out edema therapeutically, but due to injury, not a long day on  
the trail?

Everyone I've seen that uses wraps has seemed to leave them on  
overnight.  No way to know what they're using though.  No harm in  
doing that with clay/paper bags, when wrapped right.

I agree with you about the messiness left on the leg with clay  
poultices and paper bags.

What does "then cleaned and painted and left sanding as is without  
wraps" mean?  I know "sanding" means standing.  Painted with what,  
after the previous treatment with a sweat?

Lynne

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On Jul 12, 2008, at 12:32 PM, D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson wrote:

> Ummm..that is exactly the point, Lynne, is to sweat the leg to  
> reduce the edema!  And it is not put on for hours it is a short 2-3  
> hour period.  The legs are then cleaned and painted and left sanding  
> as is without wraps.  And, yes, you have to absolutely know what you  
> are doing.


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