Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Antipyretic

• when heat elimination is low

Sedative

• Hot Water Bottle 10-15min, Ice Bag 30sec-2min
• Alternate Sponge : as long and as often as required.
  • Wring hot out well 5-10sec, cool for Sedative

Analgesic

Alternate Compress : Fomentations 10-15min, very Cold Compress 30sec in

• Spinal Irritation

Excitant

• Alternate Compress : Fomentations, very Cold Compress 15-20sec each or
• Alternate Sponge : as long and as often as required. Wring hot out well 5-10sec, ice in muslin rub 3-10sec in
  • Collapse with
    • Syncope
    • Drowning, Asphyxia
    • Poisoning in Alcoholism or Drug Addictions
  • Continue until patient is conscious and vital activity normal
• Alternate General Pail Pour: adjust to patient, hot and cold 15 sec each with Hot Foot Bath in
  • Tonic for Debility in
    • Neurasthenia
    • Paralysis
    • General Paresis
    • Meningitis
    • Muscle Wasting
    • chronic Anaemia
    • Toxaemia

Antiphlogistic

• Alternate General Pail Pour: adjust to patient, hot 5-8min, cold 15-20sec with Hot Foot Bath in
  • Cerebro-Spinal Congestion

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Vigorous Stimulant and Tonic

• Fomentations with ice rubbed back and forth over the back 3-5x,
• then dried, before immediately applying the next fomentation.