Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Gastric, Intestinal, Renal and Biliary (Gall) Colics

Spasm of ducts (usually the bile duct or ureters) as a result of stones causing excruciating pain

Treatment:

For pain:-

• Hot Hip and Leg Pack with heavy Fomentations from armpit to pelvis
  • After 15min, remove and apply Cold Compress and re-apply Fomentation, continue 1 hour or until pain ceases.
• Hot Tub Bath
• Hot Foot Bath
• Hot Blanket Pack
• Very Hot Sitz

Contra-indications:

• Cold Sitz Bath

For Chronic cases of liver and gallbladder problems:-

• use vigorous Ice Massage instead of compress in above treatment
• Therapeutic Diet with 2 meals a day
• On a healthful regime, gallstones that are not painful do not need removal

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Biliary Colic in Gallstones
• Influenza - Fomentations over Abdomen etc.

Treatment Method:

• Revulsive Compress over area every 2 hours
• Continuous Hot applications to hepatic region
• hot Coloclyster or Hot Enema every 2 hours
• Hot Tub Bath

• Renal Colic in Kidney Stones
  • Bed Rest with a diet of fruit and yoghurt
  • Water Drinking
  • Hot Enema every 2 hours
  • Hot Tub Bath with cold to head and over heart if prolonged
  • Hot Blanket Pack changed every hour
  • Revulsive Sitz
  • Precordial Compress, if heart is weak

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

• Analgesic
  • Hot Water Drinking
  • Hot Enema
  • Scotch Enteric Douche
  • very hot or Scotch Renal Douche
  • Very Hot Sitz
• Analgesic for acute inflammations
  • Fomentations
• Antispasmodic
  • Hot Tub Bath
• Diuretic

Contra-indications

• Cold Water Drinking

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

see Intestinal Colic

Irritation of the mucous membrane by the calculus stimulates the non-striped muscles to contract

Use:

• Analgesics

In renal and biliary colic:

• full Hot Blanket Pack or Hot Trunk Pack are often enough to fully relieve pain without morphine.- must be applied very hot - with Hot Water Bottle as soon as heat is tolerable.
• large Fomentations can be used in less severe cases
• full Hot Tub Bath gives good results sometimes
• all the above, if prolonged, require Cooling Compress to head
• no cold follows heat as even brief applications cause pain

Contra-indications

• cold applications