Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

All the following:

Cold:

• Begin at 28°C, gradually lower to 20-15°C
• Analgesic

Very Hot:

• 60°C and below
• Analgesic

Alternate:

• Excitant - as extreme as the patient can bear

Psychrophore:

(apparatus for application of heat and cold to urethra and other body cavities)

Empty bladder before and not again until 2hrs after

• Prolonged cold or short hot in
  • Irritable Bladder,
  • Curative in Bed Wetting
• Alternate 26°C, 5min; 10-14°C, 5min in
  • Urethral Hyperaesthesia
  • with Pelvic Atony and Pelvic Congestion

Uterus:-

• Very hot in
  • Uterine Haemorrhage
• Hot in
  • Cervix infections in Uterine Displacements
• Cold in
  • Uterine Displacements
  • Vegetations and polyps in Uterine Disease,
• Alternate in
  • Pelvic Atony especially where no pain or congestion
  • Genital Atony

Vaginal:-

• Very hot
  • in persistent Pelvic Pain after abdominal Surgery
• Cold in
  • Vaginitis in Pelvic Inflammation

Rectal:-

• Short cold or alternate - Excitant in
  • Insensitive Rectum
  • Haemorrhoids
  • Some chronic Ulcers
• Very hot in
  • Internal Haemorrhoids
  • Irritable Rectum with catarrh
  • Rectal Inflammation with ulcers or fissures,
  • Chronic Prostate Enlargement
  • spasm of the sphincter