...Plucking out a few hairs from the collar when a nosebleed won't stop also seems to belong to this category. For neuralgia or when you've slept wrong, applying a warm water compress, steaming in a stone bath, or enshiki, a method in which stones are heated over a fire and laid in a sand hole on the beach, with seaweed leaves placed on top and the patient lying down on them, are also methods similar to hot spring therapy and are said to be effective for treating internal organs and skin diseases. However, it should be noted that these physical therapies are never used alone, but are used in conjunction with incantations and faith, as moxibustion is said to be effective when performed on a specific day or at a shrine or temple... *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Enshiki" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…鼻血が止まらぬとき襟(えり)の毛を数本引き抜くなどもこれに属するらしい。神経痛や寝ちがえたとき温湯で湿布し,石風呂に入って蒸したり,エンシキといって石塊を火で熱し海岸の砂穴の中に敷き,藻葉をその上に敷いてその上に寝転がるなどの方法も,温泉療法に近いもので,内臓や皮膚病にも有効とされる。しかしながら注意すべき点は,これら物理的療法も決して単独に行われるのでなく,灸治が特定の日に行われ,または社寺で施されるものがよく効くといわれるように,呪法や信仰と併用して行われることである。… ※「エンシキ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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