Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Types:

• Anaemic Headache
• Bilious Headache
• Cervico-Occipital Headache
• Clavus - like a nail being driven into head
• Congestive Headache
• Dyspeptic Headache
• ENT Headache
• Enteroptosis Headache
• Fever Headache
• Frontal Headache
• Hemicranial Headache
• Hepatic Headache
• High Pressure Headache
• Hyperaemic Headache
• Jaundice Headache
• Mastoid Headache
• Migraine
• Nervous Headache
• Neurasthenic Headaches
• Neuropathic Headache
• Occipital Headache
• Organic Headache
• Periodical Headache
• Post-Auricular Headache
• Renal Headache
• Rheumatic Headache
• Sensation of Band Around Head
• Sensation of Coldness, Numbness or Pressure
• Sensation of Pressure on Top of Head
• Supra-orbital Headache
• Uterine Headache
• Temporal Headache
• Toxaemic Headache
• Toxic Headache
• Uterine Headache

Most headaches are...

• distortion or irritation of the blood vessels in the head or
• tight muscles of the head or neck.

Most are due to nervous tension

Prevention:

• Immune System Maintenance
• Avoid all toxins - tobacco, drugs, caffeine, alcohol, fumes
• Get plenty of fresh air, avoid air conditioning
• Make sure shoulders and neck are covered if sleeping in air conditioned room.
• If working in air conditioning make sure the legs and feet are warm.
• Keep to a regular schedule
• Eat only at meal times
• Avoid rich or heavy high protein food.
• Do not eat late at night.
• Don't eat too many varieties of food at one meal.
• Don't use anything with a milk-sugar-egg mix.
• Avoid any allergy causing food.
• Eat high fibre diet to keep transit time down.
• Deep breathing exercises
• Maintain good posture.
• Exercise outside daily.

Treatment:

• What is the cause? Have you ignored one of the Eight Natural Remedies?

Three Step Treatment, if one step doesn't work move to next:-

1. Hot Foot Bath with Cold Compress to head 20min
2. Head Alternate Applications
3. Simultaneous to Head

or try:

• Hot Half Bath as hot as tolerated with mustard added to water,
• Cold Compress to head and finish with a Cold Mitten Friction or General Pail Pour
• If nervousness - Neutral Tub Bath 30-45min
• Take a brisk walk.
• Gentle neck traction by hand.
• Skip a meal and go to bed in a darkened room.

For Tension headaches

• Fomentation to shoulders and neck, with Hot Foot Bath
• Massage to head and neck, Trigger Point Workup
• If headache continues or gets worse after treatment see a doctor you trust and find the cause.

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

• Hot and Cold Head Compress
• Spinal Alternate Applications
• Cooling Compress or Ice Collar if congestion
• Massage Head and Neck

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Causes:

• Cerebral Congestion
• Cerebral Anaemia
• Celiac Irritation and other sympathetic irritations
• Nervous System Irritability - hot Sponge to spine

General Method:

• Analgesic
  • Fomentations to painful area
• Alterative especially in chronic cases

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Three types

1. Functional headaches:

• Toxaemic Headache
• Neuropathic Headache including...
  • Neurasthenic Headaches
  • Migraine
• Reflex Headache

2. Organic Headaches

3. Circulatory headaches:

• Anaemic Headache
• Hyperaemic Headache active hyperaemia
• Congestive Headache passive hyperaemia