Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Treatment:

• Rest in bed no food
• Hot Blanket Pack 15 min (prolong if body temperature >39° or prolonged Neutral Tub Bath) then Cold Mitten Friction

For Diarrhoea

• hot Enema after each bowel movement
• Fomentations over abdomen 20 min every 2 hours with Heating Compress 15°C in interval renewed every 30 min

Replace fluid and Potassium Loss by:

• Copious water drinking
• Green coconut water or tomato juice 200mls for every litre of stool produced

Detoxification by

• One heaping teaspoon of charcoal every hour during diarrhea

see Vomiting or Diarrhoea

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

• Relieve intense Visceral Congestion by maintaining warm and active skin
• Increase resistance with repeated Cold Mitten Friction
• Clean stomach and bowels with Gastric Lavage and Rectal Lavage

Contra-indications:

• Prolonged Leg Bath
• Hot Tub Bath
• Prolonged abdominal Fomentations

Etiological Problems:

Prevent Re-infection by:

• Boiling drinking water
• Drink Acid fruit juice to destroy Cholera bacteria
• avoid milk, broth, and meat broths as they act as cultures
• Avoid all solid food until convalescing

Pathological Problems:

• Low Resistance
• Visceral Congestion
• Toxaemia

Clinical Problems:

• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Cyanosis
• Scanty Urine
• Collapse
• Cramps
• Heart Failure

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Collapse
• Superficial Anaemias
• Toxaemia