Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Insomnia
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Syphilis
• Rheumatic Fever - especially Wet Sheet Pack
• Heroin, Opium and Cocaine - especially Wet Sheet Pack
• Typhus Fever - especially Wet Sheet Pack
• Anaemia
• Yellow Fever - 3
• Dengue Fever - 3

Treatment Method:

• Always check for and correct Cold Extremities
• Neutral Douche 3-5 min at bedtime
• prolonged Neutral Tub Bath 20-60 min 33°C
• hot Leg Bath or Flowing Foot Bath
• prolonged Wet Sheet Pack to heating or sweating if patient sleeps - Repeat as needed or 2-3x a day.
• Heating or Hot Hip and Leg Pack or dry Heat to Legs

Any of the above with continuous cold to head and neck by:

• Cooling Coil
• Cephalic Compress
• Evaporating Compress
• Ice Bag to head and face or
• Ice Collar

Followed by:

• At night - protected Wet Girdle
• or during day - Cold Mitten Friction or Wet Sheet Rub
• Scotch Douche to legs 39°C 2 min, 15°C 15 sec
• Downward stroking of head and neck
• Galvanic Current to cervical sympathetic
• Coloclyster 27°C 3x a day

2. above and

• Fomentations to upper spine
• Hot and Cold Head Compress, Wet Sheet Pack and Hot Blanket Pack

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Cold Extremities
• Passive Congestion without pain

Signs:

• throbbing and fullness of head
• visible pulsing of throat and temple vessels
• flushing of cheeks
• may indicate a Visceral Congestion

• Vascular Antiphlogistics
  • Cold Spinal Compress
  • Hot and Cold Head Compress - especially for Passive Congestion
  • Head Alternate Applications
  • Carefully prolonged cold Cephalic Douche or better...
    • Cephalic Compress
  • Ice Collar as Proximal Compress
  • prolonged cold or very hot Cerebral Douche
  • cold General Pail Pour - in Fevers
  • Neutral Tub Bath
  • Evaporating Compress
  • face-bath in Steam Inhalation
• Tonic to legs
  • Plantar Douche

• Derivative and Antiphlogistic
  • Leg Pack
  • Scotch or very hot Foot Douche
  • Derivative Scotch Douche to legs
  • Hot Foot Bath
  • Leg Bath
  • Leg Pack
    • all the above with Percussion
  • Wet Sheet Rub
  • cold Massage Douche
  • Fog Douche
  • Neutral Douche
  • Neutral Shower
  • cold Cerebrospinal Douche - in Neurasthenia
  • cold Plantar Douche - in Neurasthenic Headaches
  • stage III Wet Sheet Pack
  • Cold Mitten Friction to back and scalp
  • Cold Foot Bath, Shallow Foot Bath, Flowing Foot Bath
  • Cold Sitz Bath
• Derivative as prevention

Contra-indications

• Shallow Bath
• Dry Pack

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

In: Neurasthenic Insomnia

Acute stage:

• Derivation
  • Hot Foot Bath or Leg Bath with simultaneous..
    • Cephalic Compress or Cooling Compress to entire face and scalp
    • finished with Cold Mitten Friction to the heated area
  • Depletion by cold alone... in some cases all that is needed
    • Ice Bag over carotids and over head and face
    • Ice Collar
  • Depletion by
    • Simultaneous Hot and Cold to Head in severe active congestion

In Neurasthenia

• Hot Foot Bath as above then
• Alternate Foot Bath or Percussion Douche to feet

In Heatstroke

• No heat treatments
• Cephalic Compress or Cooling Compress to entire face and scalp
  • followed by Tonic Friction or Spray

• Derivation for chronic congestion use...
• cold percussion Foot Douche