Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Painful and irregular periods

Treatment:

Before the period begins, ie to prevent:-

• Loose warm clothing on the extremities especially the feet if there is any danger of chilling.
• Therapeutic Diet
• Vigorous Exercise programme

Beginning 5 days and continuing is due until 12 hours before period is due:-

• Hot Hip and Leg Pack with very thick Fomentation over lower abdomen, 20min
  • followed by a Cold Mitten Friction.
  • Repeat 3x then a Neutral Tub Bath to finish.
• Hot Enema or hot Vaginal Douche
• Hot Tub Bath
• Fast the day before the period and only bread and fruit on the day of onset of the period.

After Period begins, for acute discomfort:-

• Fomentations
• Revulsive Sitz - hot Vaginal Douche

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

• Bed Rest during period
  • Combat local and general clinical problems
  • Graduated Tonic Cold between periods
  • Most cases can be cured with hydriatic measures and persistence

Clinical Problems:

• Ovarian Disease
• Uterine Disease
• Pelvic Inflammation
• Chronic Ovarian Congestion
• Primary Dysmenorrhoea
• Anaemia
• Neurasthenia
• Hysteria

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Pelvic Atony in irregular
• Pelvic Congestion
• Pelvic Pain

Treatment:

• Graduated Tonic Cold between periods

During periods:

• hot Hip Pack
• Hot and Cold Pelvic Pack
• Fomentations
• Revulsive Sitz or
• hot Vaginal Irrigation
• sweating Hot Tub Bath - with scanty or profuse flow
• with scanty flow - Revulsive Douche

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Rule out surgical or endocrine cases

Problems:

• Pelvic Pain

Cause:

• sharp anteflexions of the uterus or after chilling
• similar problems to Tenesmus

Use:

• Analgesics
• Derivatives and local heat

For immediate relief by relaxing uterine muscles and allowing blood to outflow

• Fomentations or in more resistant cases
• Very Hot Sitz without cold after
• these two treatments form the basis of treatment and can be preceded in difficult cases by...
• Hot Enema or
• very hot Vaginal Irrigation

In painful cases, due to chilling, used together with ...

• Hot Foot Bath or better, Leg Bath

Used with a less satisfactory treatment...

• Ice Bag to sacrum for 20-30min with
  • Hot Foot Bath

Contra-indications

• cold to abdomen