Secretory Sedative
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
- Cold to breasts to relieve engorgement
- Stop sweating by
- cold to skin
- Internal glands are reflexly influenced in the opposite direction to what would be expected.
- Cold and Very hot to the skin excite the gland
- Neutral and hot (33-40°C) sedate and decrease secretions