Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Hyperpepsia

Treatment Method:

• Revulsive Compress 2 x daily, 1 hour before meals
  • Abdominal Heating Compress in intervals
• Hot Douche over stomach or spine opposite, 3x daily
• Hot Tub Bath 40.5°C 15 min, or other sweating bath
  • followed by Cold Mitten Friction - ½ hour before dinner
• Sip 150 mls of hot water ½ hour before eating

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

In:

excess hydrochloric acid and other gastric fluids

• In Hyperpepsia
  • Anti-Peptogenic Secretory Sedative - neutral or hot
    • Hot Water Drinking
    • very hot Gastric Douche
    • Hot Douche
    • very hot Epigastric Douche
    • hot Caliper Douche

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Excess hydrochloric acid and other gastric fluids often at the early stages of chronic indigestion in nervous, with rapid eating, imperfect chewing leading to 2-3x normal amount of acid

Contributing factors:

• Hurry and nerve strain of modern life
• Reflex Irritations from Appendicitis or Biliary Inflammations
• Gastric Ulcer
• Infections in teeth

Treatment:

• Peptogenics opposite to usual treatment for Dyspepsia
• local and general Sedatives

Before the meal

• Hot Water Drinking
• Hot Water Bottle over stomach
• protected sweating Heating Trunk Pack to produce an atonic reaction

After the meal

• Ice Bag over stomach 20-30min

2 hours before meal or at night:-

• Neutral Tub Bath followed by
  • protected Wet Girdle or
  • neutral Heating Trunk Pack

The above with:

• Russian Bath 20min 3x/week - increases chloride excretion
  • Aseptic Diet is most essential
  • lots of oil especially olive - depresses acid forming
  • no meats - low protein diet
  • no pastry, salt or condiments