Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Treatment:

Patient must be protected from chilling at all times

• Fresh air, no drafts, warmly dressed in bedroom
• Room should be kept warm
• Treatments 2-4 times a day

First treatment:-

• Hot Foot Bath with Fomentations to back and chest until profuse sweating, then Cold Mitten Friction

Subsequent Treatments:-

• Hot Foot Bath Avoid sweating and chilling
• Hot Tub Bath followed Cold Mitten Friction
• Hot Blanket Pack
• Wet Sheet Pack
• Drink lots of water

As needed see.. Cough and Pneumonia

• Find out what is making your immune system weak and stop it.
• Follow the Immune System Maintenance
• Avoid taking antibiotics, they do not provide any benefits.
• Follow the Bedroom Procedure for patients in bed

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

• Combat Pulmonary Congestion and Visceral Congestion maintaining circulation to the skin and using Derivatives on legs
• Vigorous and Repeated Sweating Treatments followed by Short Cold Mitten Friction

Pathological Problems:

• Low Resistance
• Toxaemia

Clinical Problems:

• Congestive Headache:
  • Very Hot Leg Pack to sweating then
• Backache:
  • Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub
• Leg Pain: keeping legs warm
• Retention Fever
• Bronchitis
• Broncho-Pneumonia
• Lobar Pneumonia
• Pleurisy
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Colic
• Eye Inflammations
• Middle Ear Inflammation
• Neuritis
• Typhoid State (Typhoid + Influenza)
• Swollen Painful Joints
• Hepatitis
• Meningitis
• Acute Nephritis

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Debility
• Fevers
• Toxaemia

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

see Spanish Influenza for treatments used in 1918,19

In young adults: Short, high fever, rapid pulse, high BP, respiratory problems

Elderly: asthenia, digestive and nervous system problems

Problems:

• Active Chest Congestion
• Visceral Congestion in early stages

General: Do not try to reduce fever

• Very early with strong patients: Cold Mitten Friction

Usual regime:

1st treatment - in afternoon or evening

• Enema - thorough Diaphoretics usually recumbent with Cooling Compress to head and neck to prevent fainting
• Several glasses of hot lemon during treatment eg.
  • recumbent Electric Light Bath
  • Sweating Pack

When sweating profusely:

• Graduated Shower begin at 43°C up to tolerance then gradually to 32°C then put to bed with
  • Hot Water Bottle to feet to perspire gently for several hours
• Do not repeat treatment if good sweat achieved

Next morning and from then on:

• Graduated Tonic Cold after:
  • Leg Pack and Fomentations to spine, quick, to relieve joint aches then immediately...
  • Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub or
  • Alternate Douche to spine and legs finish with feet

Contra-indications:

• general Cold treatments

Problems:

Bronchitis and Cough with chest pain:

• large Fomentations to chest then Chest Pack

Pharyngitis or tonsillitis

• Fomentations with interval Heating Compress

Nervous Symptoms:

• Cephalic Compress

Joint Pain:

• very hot Fomentations

Very High Temperature:

• Cephalic Compress and Precordial Compress with little interruption