Sudorific
SYN: Diaphoretic, Sweating Treatments, Skin Tonic
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
A reactionary Excitant effect that causes profuse sweating, mainly for restoring skin health.
Has two subdivisions:-
Must be carefully tailored to the condition and patient.
Usually graduated as condition improves.
Indications:-
- Most chronic conditions as they often have dry, sallow, dingy skin ie Inactive Skin
Treatment:
- Sweating Treatments should be followed by Graduated Tonic Cold
- Electric Light Bath - the best method
- Turkish Bath
- Russian Bath
- Hot Air Bath
- Vapor Bath
- Hot Tub Bath - 5 min 41°C
- Sweating Pack
- Hot Douche
- Vapor Douche
- Vapor Bath
- Hot Blanket Pack - where contact with skin is not contraindicated.
- Very Hot Sitz
- Hot Water Drinking
- Hot Enema
- Fomentations to the Spine
- Sun Bath
- followed by:
Cold is contraindicated in:-
- Acute Nephritis
- Joint Pain
- Neuralgia
- use instead Sedative effects are desired so follow the Heat by:
GKA
from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...
General sweating induced by any hot application, even local.
used for metabolic and kidney disease
Effects:
- Increase sweating (water)
- Increase catabolism (spoliative or reducing)
- Increase elimination of toxins through the skin and indirectly through the kidneys if they are overworked and congested by making them more efficient. In healthy kidneys there is no diuretic effect.
- Increase skin and sebaceous gland activity improving local nutrition
- Relieve internal congestion
- Decrease oedema and effusions
- Promote reactive ability thus preparing for cold treatments
- Prepare patient for cold treatments.
Sudorific from the most effective...
- Electric Light Bath general or local
- Sun Bath
- Hot Air Bath over 120°C
- Russian Bath
- Turkish Bath
- Vapor Bath
- Sweating Pack heating Wet Sheet Pack
- Hot Tub Bath
- Hot Blanket Pack
- Dry Blanket Pack
- Thermo-Electric Bath
- Revulsive Spray or Revulsive Douche
- Hot Foot Bath or Leg Bath
- hot Sitz Bath
- Fomentations to spine
- Hot Water Drinking
- Hot Enema
- includes
- All the above followed by Graduated Tonic Cold
Indications:-
- Jaundice - mild only
- Toxaemia - mild only
- Visceral Congestion - mild only
- secondary Syphilis
- Obesity
- acute Rheumatic Fever
- Gout
- Acute Nephritis and Chronic Nephritis
- Uraemia
- Eclampsia in Pregnancy
Contra-indications to extreme Diaphoretics
- Asthma
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Emaciation in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fevers or Diabetes
- Heatstroke
- Tuberculosis
- Jaundice
- Debility
- old age and children