Cold is a healer

[Ebe]

using ice baths against the "hot" inflammatory diseases

I'm sorry, this is too simple a vision, as there are "hot" inflammation and "cold" inflammation, as any TCM expert knows. For some situation, cold is the perfect treatment, for some other it isn't. What I agree on is that a body used to extremely cold temperatures can react more quickly and effectively to problems but this is true also for extremely hot temperatures as well. Let's say that our modern, lazy bodies, which are exposed to magnetic fields, pollution, unhealthy lifestyles and useless chemicals, aren't the fittest but this is what we've got and this is what we have to take care of the way we can.