Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Antipyretic and Stimulating to heart

• 15°C / 60°F, 20cm square wrung moderately dry, lightly covered, heat,
• Dry Friction (rubbing) or wait 5min for reaction - every 15min (every 10min in collapse)
• Ice Bag with single thickness flannel over chest
• all followed by general Cold Mitten Friction

Cold Compress 20min, 3x day in chronic...

• Cardiac Insufficiency in
  • low Fevers
  • early Heart Failure,
  • Bradycardia
  • Tachycardia
  • Valvular Heart Disease
  • Low Blood Pressure

Continuous Cold Compress rubbed at change in acute...

• Cardiac Insufficiency in
  • Myocarditis
  • Endocarditis
  • Collapse
• Cardiac Inflammation in
  • Pericarditis
  • Typhoid Fever
• Active Chest Congestion in
  • Bronchitis
  • Surgery to prevent Surgical Shock and Pulmonary Congestion

Hot 43°C / 109°F, 10min in Cardiac Insufficiency in

• Hysteria with Anaemia

Contra-indications

• Fatty degeneration of the heart muscle in diabetes and nephritis
• Advanced Emphysema

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Usually an ice pack (crushed ice in a towel)

• decreases heart rate
• shortens and increases force of systole
• increases diastole ie. increases rest period
• aids hypertrophy ie. strengthens heart muscle