Then again everything revolved around a play on words. Let's start with the tourmaline itself.
It is such a natural mineral in the form of multi-colored crystals, which was used both as an ornamental and as a precious stone.
In addition to its beauty, tourmaline has the ability to give off heat in the long-wave infrared range. Such radiation penetrates deeper into various objects. Well, in a person as well.
Why is it needed
I don't know why this is needed. Tourmaline is highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine or in what is passed off as Chinese traditional medicine. This is the first thing.
Secondly, the Chinese make most infrared heaters and other electric heating pads that can be stuck with tourmaline.
It is clear that high-tech household appliances and without any tourmalines will warm you with infrared radiation of the declared range. So there is no point in overpaying for tourmaline.
Diamonds
You can even go as far as to inlay electric rugs with diamonds. Did you know that diamond has a very high thermal conductivity? It is always cold to the touch, because it instantly picks up and "smears" the heat. It would be convenient to use it in a heating pad to distribute heat over the surface. But it's expensive.
So, apart from not very much needed long-wave infrared radiation, tourmaline is of little use. well and in principle, there can be harm from heating pads.
Curling iron
Curling iron with tourmaline from the same opera. Tourmaline heaters only make sense in terms of deep warming up something. And in a curling iron, why should you warm it up deeply? A strand of hair? Some nonsense ...
Wordplay
And here the play on words intervenes. The fact is that tourmaline does not look like a gem every time. Sometimes it looks like dirty glass. Then the tourmaline is "treated", and not just treated, but treated with heat. This is exactly what is called. That is, it is heated to half a thousand degrees, and the mineral changes color. Becomes prettier. It turns out that the mention of tourmaline as a mineral is often found simultaneously with the phrase "heal with heat". Well, the tourmaline itself is used for heaters. Everything. The circle is complete. A legend was born about the fact that tourmaline itself cured someone with heat.
Do you have anything tourmaline?
Read my article on how a malignant tumor grows from heating pads:
