ABSTRACT
In traditional medicine, hyperthermia technology focuses mainly on thermotherapy. The earliest conductive hyperthermia adopted hot springs and sand heated by sunshine; then, human beings started to place toasted stones at the affected areas to relieve pain; after they learned how to use fire. Paraffin has the advantages of plasticity, glutinousness, and ductility, and it is suitable for therapy on joints. Mud therapy is a method in which mud is heated to a proper temperature to act on the body for therapy on diseases. Hot bag therapy is a therapeutic method in which the heat and vapor emitted from silica gel heated in the bag act on the affected place; it is also called foment therapy. The body is injected with microorganisms or biological products such as the injection of Coley toxin and short Corynebacterium, which causes a temperature rise of the body.
