Possible Clues:

• Sore application
• Warm compress applied to relieve inflammation
• This drawer may be hot, but is always cold at last (8)
• Moist, hot, skin application
• It is back to front in odd couple dressing
• Dressing couple in a struggle and holding it back
• It relieves inflammation
• Couple it with soft heated mass applied to skin injury
• Soft material wrapped in cloth to relieve inflammation
• Soft heated mass applied to inflamed area of skin