Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

Use:

• Hot Foot Bath

Contra-indications:

• Cold Sitz Bath

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

In:

• Bronchitis
• Cardiac Insufficiency
• Typhus Fever - 2
• Cholera - Hot Blanket Pack then vigorous Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub
• Plague - 2
• Valvular Heart Disease

Treatment Method:

• Cool Abdominal Heating Compress removed every 2 hours for 15 min of
  • Fomentations to Abdomen as hot as can be borne
• Electric Light Bath 10-20 min or Sweating Pack 1-2 hours or
  • Vapor Bath 6-15 min followed by
  • Wet Sheet Rub or Cold Douche
• Hot Tub Bath at bedtime 6-10 min followed by prolonged Neutral Tub Bath 20-40 min
• Hot Hip and Leg Pack followed by Cold Towel Rub 1-2x a day
• Blanket Wrap

2.

• Hot Blanket Pack 30 min, followed by sweating Wet Sheet Pack 1-2 hours 3x a day and ...
  • prolonged Neutral Tub Bath 1-2x a day.

Chronic: (see Visceral Inflammation for acute cases)

In all the catarrhal diseases - increased mucous ie.

• Acute Gastritis and Chronic Gastritis
  • Chronic Diarrhoea
• Dyspepsia
• Gastroenteritis
• Irritable Rectum
• Bladder Inflammation
• Haemorrhoids
• Hepatitis
• Menorrhagia
• Uterine Displacements
• Cerebro-Spinal Congestion

Problems:

• Visceral Inflammation
• Visceral Irritation - feeling of heaviness across abdomen

Treatment:

• Vascular Antiphlogistics and Cardiac Antiphlogistics
  • anode Galvanic Current
  • cathode Galvanic Current
  • Sinusoidal Current
  • Hot and Cold Spinal Pack
  • Hot and Cold Gastro-Hepatic Compress - for upper abdomen
  • Hot and Cold Intestinal Compress - for lower abdomen
  • Wet Girdle
  • Electric Light Bath
  • Wet Sheet Rub
  • Cold Towel Rub
  • Cold Mitten Friction
  • very hot Epigastric Douche
  • Cold Douche especially if Passive Congestion
  • Derivative Scotch Douche
  • stage III Wet Sheet Pack
  • Cold Compress early then Cooling Compress
• Later:-
• Revulsive
• Cardiac Excitant
• Peripheral Circulatory Tonic
• Fluxion
  • Revulsive Douche especially if chronic congestion
• Sudorific
• Tonic to restore skin health - very important
• Analgesic for associated pain
  • hot Fan Douche
  • Very Hot Sitz

Also in cardiac diseases:-

• Cardiac Antiphlogistics

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

In:

• Acute Nephritis
• Eclampsia in Pregnancy
• Erysipelas
• Uraemia
• Pulmonary Congestion
• acute Pleurisy
• and in early stages of
  • Influenza
  • Measles
  • Scarlet Fever

Treatment:

• Fluxion: Alternating Applications
• and mild Diaphoretics
• followed by Graduated Tonic Cold to send blood to the skin and retain it there.

Use:

• Hot Blanket Pack
• Revulsive Trunk Pack
• any of the Diaphoretics followed by
• Cold Mitten Friction

In chronic diseases:

• Diaphoretics 2x a week followed by vigorous Tonic