Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Causes:-

• too much food
• too much concentrated food
• too much fat
• poor chewing
• nervousness at mealtimes
• too great a variety of food at one meal
• rapid eating.

Treatment:

• Charcoal by mouth
• Charcoal Poultice - large poultice on abdomen

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Chronic Gastritis
• Chronic Diarrhoea
• Peritonitis
• Gastric Dilation
• Hyperpepsia
• Typhoid Fever - Very hot Fomentations 5 min
• Mumps
• Lobar Pneumonia - 2

Treatment Method:

• Gastric Lavage at regular intervals to prevent food accumulation
• Fomentations 15 min 2 x daily followed by Cold Enema or
  • Abdominal Heating Compress 15°C, changed hourly
• Large Soap Enema or Coloclyster, 21-26°C, 2 or 3 times weekly
• cold Fan Douche - over stomach 2x daily
• Avoid cane sugar, a prime cause
• Dextrinised Cereals and don't eat fruit and Vegetables at same meal

2. above and

• Hot Enema followed by small Cold Enema

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

• Wet Girdle
• Hot and Cold Abdominal Pack
• Abdominal Heating Compress
• cold Epigastric Douche
• cold Caliper Douche
• cold Gastric Douche
• Fomentations in Typhoid Fever

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

see Dyspepsia

Treatment:

• Hot and Cold Abdominal Pack
• Hot Enema