Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Use Aseptic Diet especially Fruit Diet first except in severe cases

Infants

1.5lt, 38°C, ½ teaspoon each of salt and bicarb/litre, 100-250 mls per time in

• Gastric Dilation and Indigestion

Alternate

Begin 500mls at 40°C, retain 20-30sec, then 500ml at 26°C, then build up to 5 changes and 46°C and 21°C

• Tonic in
  • Hypopepsia

Pressure

35-42°C, return flow tube in

• Nervous Dyspepsia
• Acute Gastritis

Hot

Begin at 43°C raise to 60°C or as hot as the patient can bear, 1-1.5lt, until water clear - finish with 60-100mls of ice water in...

• Hyperpepsia
• Chronic Gastritis
• Bowel Obstruction (BID)
• chronic Gastric Dilation 3x a week
• extreme Decreased Peristalsis
• Migraine - repeat as necessary

Contra-indications

• Do not use regularly, only when there is a definite organic disease as some people become dependant on it.
• Use Fruit Diet or Water Emetic instead
• Haemorrhaging Ulcers
• Cirrhosis of the liver
• Haemorrhaging Tuberculosis
• Aortic aneurism
• Advanced Arteriosclerosis
• Stroke