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Ah, you are right. Still there's a flu vaccine.
I don't have specific concerns, but in general heating up a region under pain seems to be an idea that could be within standard medicine and it doesn't seem to be standard practice.
If it would be useful, why is there no big pharma company that sells a creme that heats up ears and markets it?
Businesses don't necessary notice every opportunity quickly, or even at all.
There a lot of money in big pharma and there are solutions to heating up areas of the body developed for people with tense backs.
It's no absolute heuristic but it looks to me like a topic that's open to big pharma intervention. That means there likely research out there that gives a better idea about whether it's something worthwhile to do then simply following folk remedies.