Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

• Pail Pour to the back of the head and neck.
• Patient either lies prone, head down over end of bed or sitting in bath (38°C),
• ears and shoulders protected by towels and
• water poured over head to run down neck and spine
• Take care, begin slowly.
• For more control, safety and convenience use:
  • Cold Pail Pour
  • Ice Bag or
  • Evaporating Compress

Repeated Cold: (rare) 15-10°C

• Every 5 min while patient in Brand Bath
• General Excitant especially for brain in:
  • Grave Typhoid Fever

Prolonged Cold : Depressant can lead to suffocation or cardiac arrest use carefully in

• Cerebral Congestion
• Sunstroke with skin congestion

Short Cold: vasodilation in brain, Excitant, in:

• Depression,
• Cerebral Anaemia
• Sunstroke with pallor

Short Tepid: Pour 27-33°C, 3-5 min Sedative in

• Cerebral Irritability in
  • Insomnia
  • Mania

Neutral Fan Douche: to occiput and neck after general Neutral Douche

• excellent for Insomnia

Hot Pour: with caution in

• Syncope
• Collapse
• With great care in Migraine with Low Blood Pressure

Alternate in:

• Cerebral Anaemia