Inactive Skin
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...
In:
- Chronic Nephritis
- Coryza
- Functional Cardiac Diseases - especially vigorous Graduated Tonic Cold
- Osteoarthritis
- Whooping Cough - Neutral Tub Bath daily 30 min
Treatment Method:
At Bedtime:
- Short Sweating Treatments 3-5 min especially Electric Light Bath or
- sweating Wet Sheet Pack followed by short Graduated Tonic Cold
- Neutral Tub Bath 2-3 min, then Cold Mitten Friction 3x a week
- Hot Blanket Pack 2x a week then Cold Mitten Friction
In the Morning:
- Graduated Tonic Cold
- Woolen clothing, not too warm, but linen next to skin
- Dry Friction
- Oil Rub 2-3x a week in cold weather
- Sun Bath
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
Indicates that the mucous membranes are also inactive
Problems:
Treatment:
- Sudorific
- Sweating Pack
- Sun Bath with sand Air Bath
- Tonic
- Wet Sheet Rub
- Cold Douche
- general Alternate Douche
- stage I Wet Sheet Pack
- Salt Glow
- Dry Shampoo
- Oil Rub
In feet and legs see Cold Extremities
Problems:
Dysfunctions
Skin Problems
- Abrasions, Cuts, Grazes
- Athletes Foot
- Baldness
- Bee Sting
- Burns
- Chilblains
- Delayed Eruption
- Dermalgia
- Desquamation
- Dry Eruptions
- Dry Skin
- Eczema
- Eruptions
- Erythema
- Erythema Nodosum
- Extensive Skin Damage
- Formication
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hives
- Icterus
- Inactive Skin
- Insect Stings
- Jaundice
- Moist Eruptions
- Pruritus
- Scaly Eruptions
- Sepsis Local
- Skin Thickening
- Suppuration
- Sweating - Excessive
- Sweaty Feet
- Ulcers
- Urticaria
- Warts
- Wounds