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I don't think there's enough heat energy involved to cause damage. They claim that the pain overrides your itch senses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309056/



The study you linked is about efficacy. It did not research the underlying medical reason why it helps.




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