Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Use:

• Hot Tub Bath 10 minutes only and only early in the treatment

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Neurasthenia
• Nervous Dyspepsia
• Depression

Treatment Method:

• Scotch Douche to legs and feet followed by
  • standing Shallow Bath
• Hot Foot Bath or hot Hand Bath
• Fomentations to abdomen 2x a day then Heating Compress during intervals
• Alternate Foot Bath or cold Flowing Foot Bath
• Leg Pack
• Massage and vigorous rubbing to feet and legs
• Cold Mitten Friction

• Antiphlogistic
  • Short Cold or long heat followed by Vigorous friction to affected area

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

• One of the Superficial Anaemias

In:

• Cerebral Congestion
  • Vascular Antiphlogistics
  • local Alternate Douche
• Due to Reflex Irritations causing vascular spasm in
  • gastric Neurasthenia
  • Celiac Irritation
  • Paralysis seen by cold, blue skin and
  • Inactive Skin
    • Leg Pack, Foot Pack
    • Cold Foot Bath, Shallow Foot Bath, Flowing Foot Bath
    • Alternate Foot Bath
    • Ice Bag
• Enteroptosis - cold Plantar Douche
  • Due to feebleness of circulation in Stroke and Paraplegia
    • Hot Leg Pack
    • Foot Pack
    • general Cold Mitten Friction,
    • Scotch Douche or Precordial Compress
    • Wet Hand Rub
    • Oil Rub

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

• Sun Bath

• in Cerebral Hyperaemia
  • Hot Foot Bath very hot with cold to head, 10-15min followed by
    • Alternate percussion Foot Douche - can give this alone as it ensures more permanent Derivation than the foot bath alone. or
  • Cold Douche