Originally Posted by
Yum Cha
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Banging your hands around to build callouses, thicken micro-fractures of hard and soft bone and applying poisons to the skin that kill the nerve endings and promote the callouses/scarring is good for your hands in whose universe?
Iron Palm jau is poison. It contains aresnic, metals, and all sorts of similar crap. You don't do iron palm training, and put on magic jau to make it all better. Iron Palm means you sacrifice your hands for fighting, and pay the ferryman on your way out.
A little Dit ta jau on bruised forearms, or fist prints on your body is not iron palm, don't confuse the two. Jau heals by promoting circulation and letting your body do its job in optimum circumstances. Western medicine talks about cold/heat. Cold for the first few hours and heat thereafter. Not a lot of difference, in my opinion. Boxers always had a witchazel rubdown. Witchazel is jau. So is Ben Gay, Denko Rub, etc, etc... Recipies may vary, and the effectiveness from person to person as well.
It may contain something like speerment oil, or other herbs which many new age lawsuit weary "health consultants" say is "unfriendly" and may cause a reaction in some people, (especially if it gets on the pink bits!) and thus some people say they "can" be bad for you.