Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

• A cold is a mild virus infection of the nose and throat.
• There are cold viruses in the air all the time but.... PEOPLE WITH A WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM CATCH COLD.
• Find out what is weakening your immune system.

Treatment:

• Cold Shower daily to prevent.

For Frequent Colds (poor immune system)

• General Pail Pour for frequent colds.
• Salt Glow

Early Therapy to abort cold on first symptoms:-

• Half teaspoon of salt, sucked slowly
• Deep breathing exercises - slow, full breaths 40 times, 3x daily
• Tea Tree Oil rubbed under nose or as inhalation or gargle or
  • mix 3 drops with honey and suck
• Hot Foot Bath with cold pour to feet, rest 30min.
• Alternate Hot and Cold Lung Compress followed by,
• Cold Tub Bath repeat after one hour if still have symptoms
• Vigorous exercise - until sweating. If toxicity develops do Hydrotherapy instead
• Push water
• Therapeutic Diet
• One teaspoon of charcoal in water 3x daily between meals
• Avoid exhaustion - Sleep routine
• Nasal Irrigation
• Immune System Maintenance

Later Colds:-

• Daily Fomentations Chest and back with
  • Hot Foot Bath and,
  • Cold Compress to head.
  • Finish with Cold Shower or even Cold Tub Bath.
  • Wet Sheet Pack
  • Drink during treatment.
• Russian Bath
• Hot Tub Bath
• Encourage drinking water
• Keep feet warm in air conditioning
• Avoid caffeine

For Stuffy Nose (Nasal Congestion)...

• Hot or cold water bath for hands

For chest tightness after cold or chest cold...

• Heating Chest Pack

See also:

• Pharyngitis
• Sinusitis
• Muscle Aches
• Bronchitis
• Earache
• Laryngitis
• Cough

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

Prevention

• Graduated Tonic Cold 1-2x a day
• Outdoor life
• Avoid excessively warm clothes and rooms and very hot baths
• Wear linen next to skin year round

Acute:

• Sweating Treatments at bedtime followed by Graduated Tonic Cold
• Hot Foot Bath with very Hot Compress to face
• Steam Inhalation
• copious Water Drinking

Chronic:

• Vigorously apply prevention and acute treatments
• Avoid chilling
• treat acute colds promptly
• treat the accompanying gastric conditions from low resistance

Pathological Problems:

in chronic cases

• Inactive Skin
• Low Resistance
• Nasal Congestion
• Chronic Gastritis
• Hypopepsia
• Gastric Dilation

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Almost always due to Tissue poisons accumulating ie Toxaemia

• Water Drinking

Problems:

• Feverishness
• Flushes
• Irritable Cough
• Nasal Congestion
• Throat Inflammation

To abort

• face-bath in Steam Inhalation
• Neck Compress
• heating Dry Pack
• Hot Foot Bath - in early stage
• Head Pack

• Expectorant
• Antiphlogistic - anode Galvanic Current

for running nose - Nasal Irrigation

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

see Bronchitis for acute bronchitis and stages of the disease

Problems:

• Congestive Headache

Prevention

• Aseptic Diet - lots of Vitamins A and C
• Sun Bath
• Daily Graduated Tonic Cold
• Daily physical exercise 2 types:
  • 20 min, nude in a cool room before daily Alternate Shower
  • 1 hr brisk walk, in 15min sessions OK, "walking, never hurrying, breathing deeply, and thinking soundly."
• "Change of mental state through mental hygiene with the express hope and purpose of producing a more wholesome attitude of the patient toward himself and his environment."
• Rest after each meal

PT in Nursing Care pp378,9 from Spiesman and Arnold

Simple Cold

Treatment:- Expectorants

Aims

1. Relieve congestion and pain
2. Ease the cough and aid expectoration by first increasing fluidity then later the facilitating expectoration.

First: general Diaphoretics Repeated every 3-5 hrs

• Hot Foot Bath or Leg Bath with
• Fomentations to chest and throat (relieve cough and pain) with
• Sweating Pack
• Hot Water Drinking especially lemon (aid sweating and increase fluidity)

When perspiring freely:- mild cold

• Wet Hand Rub
• Cold Mitten Friction
• Cold Towel Rub
• Graduated Shower 46-32°C 5min

After the first day:

• Spinal Alternate Applications
• Scotch Compress to chest or
• Alternate Foot Bath to equalise circulation and normalise tone then put to bed with and allowed perspire gently with:-
  • heating Chest Pack or Throat Compress depending on location of congestion or
  • Dry Pack in the frail

followed next day or hours later by:-

• 3 Fomentations to chest or spine with
  • Cold Mitten Friction

As expectoration becomes freer:-

• Alternate Compress to chest or spine or
• Alternate Douche

later:-

• Alternate Pail Pour
• Salt Glow

Coryza (head cold)

• Head Alternate Applications with
  • Hot Foot Bath

Chronic cases:

• Hot Foot Bath or Hot Leg Pack with
  • Head Alternate Applications for 30min then
• Alternate Douche (percussion) to feet, 6 changes, with
  • Cooling Compress to head and neck