Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Spoliatives and Eliminative

1. Hot Tub Bath 40-43°C 3-4 min or Hot Blanket Pack then immediately:
2. Modified stage IV Wet Sheet Pack
   1. extra blankets,
   2. Hot Water Bottle to sides and feet
   3. 1 cup of hot water before the pack and 2-3 during
   4. Prolong by removing wet sheet when sweating and Dry Pack with Hot Water Bottle, rubbing of trunk and limbs over blankets and isometric exercises
3. Finish with Cold Mitten Friction

Use In:

• Autointoxication in
  • Jaundice
  • Oedema
  • Syphilis
  • Gout and Swollen Painful Joints
  • chronic Toxaemia
  • Chronic Indigestion
  • Chronic Nephritis
  • Malaria
  • Septicaemia
  • Ascites
  • Tetanus
  • Amyloid Degeneration of liver
  • Bells Palsy
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Chronic Myelitis
  • Epilepsy
  • Neuralgia
  • Migraine
  • Meningitis
  • Raynaud's Disease
• Inactive Skin in: Neurasthenia,
• Sedentary Lifestyle in Obesity any chronic illness
• Intoxication especially Tobacco also Alcoholism and Tea and Coffee

Contra-indications

• Eruptions
• Advanced Cardiac Insufficiency or Chronic Renal Inactivity
• Anaemia
• Emaciation or Debility
• Rheumatoid Arthritis during flare
• Hyperaesthesia
• Fevers

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Final stage of Wet Sheet Pack, begins with general sweating.

Eliminative, Spoliative, Diaphoretics

Increase or prolong sweating by:

• additional covering
• Hot Water Bottle within folds of dry blanket
• Hot Water Drinking
• hot lemon juice at intervals
• room temperature compress to head, renewed infrequently