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Alan Armstrong
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 Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:42 pm Post subject: Tiger Balm |
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| Do you use or recommend tiger balm or an equivalent product? |
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DWx
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: UK
Styles: Tae Kwon Do & Yang family Tai Chi
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I use it for stiff joints and muscle injuries. Good stuff.
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Bulltahr
Brown Belt
Joined: 08 Mar 2015
Posts: 727
Location: NEW ZEALAND
Styles: Shotokan, Seido Juku
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:34 am Post subject: |
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I like the "red" tiger balm over the white one.
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neoravencroft
Orange Belt
Joined: 02 May 2015
Posts: 122
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Styles: Wing Chun, JKD, Uechi-Ryu, Escrima, Muay Thai
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Tiger Balm is really nice if you got some sore muscles after a hard workout.
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JR 137
Black Belt
Joined: 10 May 2015
Posts: 2442
Location: In the dojo
Styles: Seido Juku
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Do I go there or don’t I? Oh well...
Tiger Balm and the like (Ben Gay, Flex-All 454, et al) are classified as counter-irritants. How does a counter-irritant work? It irritates the nerve endings in your skin and tricks your brain into thinking there’s a deep heating effect going on. Basically it’s like if you hurt your hand. I stomp pretty hard on your toe, then ask you if your hand hurts anymore.
Don’t get me wrong, I like counter-irritants too. But they’re not heating, loosening, etc. anything. |
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sensei8
KF Sensei
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
Posts: 16430
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Styles: Shindokan Saitou-ryu [Shuri-te/Okinawa-te based]
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| DWx wrote: |
| I use it for stiff joints and muscle injuries. Good stuff. |
I wholeheartedly concur!!
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OneKickWonder
Purple Belt
Joined: 17 Feb 2018
Posts: 513
Styles: Tang soo do
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Tiger balm is ace. One of its key ingredients is wintergreen oil, which by weight, is about 1000 times as potent as an anti inflammatory as aspirin. Sounds great but not that much of it penetrates the skin.
I think there are far better products than tiger balm though. But tiger balm is 'traditional', and it's distinctive smell is like the cologne or musk of the martial artist.  |
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strangepair03
Blue Belt
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 312
Location: New Jersey
Styles: Okinawan Shorinji Ryu Karate-Do
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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I was a long time used of tiger balm, now I use battle balm. Little more expensive but I like it better. I use the demon strength one. Green tin.
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Wastelander
KF Sensei
Joined: 18 Oct 2010
Posts: 2734
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Styles: Shorin-Ryu, Shuri-Ryu, Judo, KishimotoDi
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| JR 137 wrote: |
Do I go there or don’t I? Oh well...
Tiger Balm and the like (Ben Gay, Flex-All 454, et al) are classified as counter-irritants. How does a counter-irritant work? It irritates the nerve endings in your skin and tricks your brain into thinking there’s a deep heating effect going on. Basically it’s like if you hurt your hand. I stomp pretty hard on your toe, then ask you if your hand hurts anymore.
Don’t get me wrong, I like counter-irritants too. But they’re not heating, loosening, etc. anything. |
If it helps, it helps, so I don't really knock it for people who like it, but it doesn't help me at all. It irritates my skin too much, and I essentially get a chemical burn from it.
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MatsuShinshii
Black Belt
Joined: 15 Aug 2016
Posts: 1423
Location: Kentucky
Styles: Machimura Suidi Rokudan, Ryukyu Kenpo, Kobudo, Judo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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I have used it but it doesn't seem to work for me. If I have inflammation I use white willow bark or thunder god vine. For me it works 100% better than tiger balm.
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