Valvular Heart Disease
SYN: Organic Heart Disease
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...
General Method:
First Stage:
- Carefully Graduated Tonic Cold with moderate exercise
- Aseptic Diet - non stimulating
Second Stage:
- Bed Rest, Ice Bag over heart 15-30 min 2-3x a day
- As in first stage
- Careful Massage and graduated exercises
Third Stage:
- Complete bed rest
- Relief of Oedema
- Keep skin circulation active thus relieve heart
- Relieve weak heart
Pathological Problems:
- Chronic Cardiac Insufficiency
Clinical Problems:
- Dyspnoea
- Cardiac Pain
- Insomnia from Cerebral Congestion
- Fever Headache
- Cardiac Oedema
- Weak Pulse
- Cardiac Hypertrophy
- Hepatic Congestion
- Hepatic Hypertrophy
- Visceral Congestion
- Portal Congestion
- Passive Chest Congestion
- Pulmonary Haemorrhage
- Acute-Congestive Cough or Chronic Cough
- Palpitation
- Angina
- Chronic Gastritis
- Arteriosclerosis
Contra-indications:
- cold Immersions, Cold Douche
- Russian Bath, and any prolonged or very hot bath
- Exercise causing
- in Fatty Degeneration: no Precordial Ice
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
Problems:
Cardiac Antiphlogistics for Visceral Congestion
- Wet Sheet Rub
- Effervescent Bath
- effervescent Electro-Chemical Bath
Contra-indications:
GKA
from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...
Caused by acute inflammation of the valves as complications of
Predisposed in... prolonged and heavy exertion
Problems or complications:
- Oedema
- Hepatic Congestion
- Pulmonary Congestion
- Palpitation or arrhythmia
- Tachycardia
In stenosis (obstruction) the heart muscle is hypertrophied
In incompetent valves (can't close properly) cardiac dilation
Treatment:
To increase heart muscle and temporarily relieve the heart these treatments combine to
- decrease pulse rate
- decrease dilation
- decrease heart murmurs
- rest - physical and mental especially in acute stage
- Precordial Compress or Ice Bag well wrapped, 20min on 20min off
- stimulate the peripheral heart thus aiding the heart. To ensure active dilation or a pumping action...
- Massage - friction good, Deep Centripetal Kneading better and may result in a 4x increase in blood flow - mechanical vibration useful on legs and back.
- Graduated Tonic Cold - throughout the disease:-
- Cold Mitten Friction the best - before friction - head and neck must be bathed in cold water or have Cooling Compress
- If limbs are cold brief Fomentations before friction
- Precordial Ice Bag must be in place
- Salt Glow good as are other general or local Alternating Applications
- Cold Mitten Friction the best - before friction - head and neck must be bathed in cold water or have Cooling Compress
- Effervescent Bath - not used in acute stage and can cause palpitation and over-stimulation - use carefully
- resistive exercises for all muscles groups successively begin with slight resistance and build through 6x - Alternate groups are done at the same time, should not increase pulse or breath rate
- increases active dilation - use only in chronic stages
- graduated walking programmes
General Programme:
Begin gently - don't treat too frequently, 3 treatments per day with one as Stimulant, the evening treatment is Sedative.
When inflammation subsides, patient on bed-rest :-
- Massage in afternoon or evening, avoiding chest, daily or 3x /week
- Proximal Compress especially Ice Bag 4x /day for 20-30min
- Late morning Hot Foot Bath, abdominal Fomentations or Spinal Alternate Applications followed by..
- if Insomnia Alternate Foot Bath before bed
When pulse becomes normal, patient in wheelchair then walking short distances < 20m
- graduated walking programme
- Daily Salt Glow, Alternate Douche to feet and legs, Graduated Shower etc.
When temperature normal for 1 month:
- Effervescent Bath
- resisted exercises initially for a 8min and gentle
Contra-indications
- extreme Graduated Tonic Cold from Wet Sheet Rub up
- electricity
- extreme Diaphoretics especially Electric Light Bath