Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Gastroenteritis
• Functional Cardiac Diseases
• Diphtheria - 2
• Yellow Fever - acute with Alternate Compress on heart
• Cholera - especially Alternating Applications, Enema and Cold Mitten Friction
• Plague - acute
• Tonsillitis - 2

Treatment Method:

• Hot Blanket Pack and Hot Water Bottle until warm (or 15 min if acute) or
  • Fomentations to Spine or Hot Tub Bath 3-6 min then ...
  • prolonged Neutral Tub Bath 33-35°C or
  • Large Hot Enema 37°C or
  • Spinal Alternate Applications
  • In acute cases followed immediately by:-
    • Cold Mitten Friction
    • Wet Sheet Rub or
    • Cold Towel Rub continued until skin is red then
    • Dry Pack. - every 2-3 hours or 2-3x a day
• Precordial Compress or Ice Bag 15 min repeated every hour
• Hot Water Drinking
• Hot or Alternate Gastric Lavage
• Alternate Compress on heart if necessary
• Heat to head if face is pale

2.

• Short Hot Tub Bath followed by Dry Pack
• Large Hot Enema followed by Dry Pack

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Cardiac Insufficiency
• Cerebral Anaemia
• Respiratory Depression
• Superficial Anaemias

Threatened collapse - Hot Enema

Treatment:

• General Intrinsic Excitants
• Cardiac Excitant
  • Hot Enema
  • Spinal Alternate Applications
  • cold General Pail Pour
  • cold Local Pail Pour
  • Hot Cephalic Douche - with care
  • Stimulating Hot Tub Bath in asphyxia of newborns
  • Cold Mitten Friction to heart
• Restorative in Fever and Heating
  • Hot Blanket Pack
  • heating Dry Pack
  • Fomentations
• Reflex Tonic:
  • Ice Bag in asphyxia in Drug Addictions

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

• Cardiac Excitant

Warm body first with

• Hot Enema