Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Use:

• Hot Blanket Pack
• Very Hot Sitz

Contra-indications:

• Cold Sitz Bath

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Diabetes
• Chronic Neuritis

Treatment Method:

• Hot Leg Pack
• Scotch Douche
• Bed Rest
• Nerve Stretching in persistent cases

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Cerebral Irritability
• Nervous System Irritability - intractable
• Neuralgia
• Neuritis Pain
• Pelvic Pain
• Toxaemia

Treatment:

• hot treatment to heat the body slightly then...
  • moderate Tonic avoiding painful areas
• Local Eliminative
  • Scotch Douche after sweating treatment followed by Massage
• Analgesic for Chronic Inflammation
  • Half Bath
  • Scotch Spinal Douche
  • Vapor Douche
  • Hot Douche
  • hot Percussion Douche
  • Revulsive Fan Douche
  • Filiform Douche especially in obstinate cases
  • local spoliative Dry Pack
  • Sweating Treatments
• Tonic after acute phase
  • cold Massage Douche or hot Massage Douche
  • Alternate Douche
  • Fomentations
• Antithermic
  • Fog Douche
• Revulsive

Contra-indications

• Shallow Bath
• Cold Douche

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

From congestion: Depletion by heat alone:

• large Fomentations over back and side of thigh
• Very Hot Sitz
• prolonged Revulsive Douche (fan) over nerve

from Toxic Neuralgia

• Revulsive Douche - Fan
• very hot Pail Pour
• Hot Douche (percussion) often best

one of the above plus all the below to remove the cause:

• Graduated Tonic Cold
• general Eliminative treatments
• Aseptic Diet

from Inflammatory Neuralgia

• prolonged local cold
• Alternate Douche over nerve