Hydrotherapy - the water cure

www.thehealtheducator.com just sent me an e-book of about 35 pages on hydrotherapy. I can't cover it or talk about hydrotherapy in anyway that is going to do it justice. but i've been doing hydrotherapy lately and i'm pretty excited about it. so i'll say a little bit about it.

...i will give it a go.

Hydrotherapy - The Water Cure - but water does not cure.

Vincent Priesnitzz was pretty much the modern day founder. He was the inspiration for all the hydropathy sanatoriums that popped up all over Europe in the 1800s.
Sebastian Kneip called it " the water cure."

German man Louis Kuhne turned his boot factories into hydropathic institutions.

Dr R Trall would routinely ask his students, "What is the aim of healing?"
They would reply, "To increase circulation."

Yes - inside to out - top to bottom.

It's only 1 tool - amongst - proper diet, air, sunlight, exercise, rest a positive attitude... a combination of all is goooooooooooooood.

Water does NOT cure - it does not have healing powers. It gets conditions essential and favorable for healing.

Cold water draws blood and hot water expands and sends blood away.
Cold water is vitalising and energetic. Warm water can be good for pain relief - acute poisoning - but it can also be enervating on the nerves if used for too long.

People used cabbages and mashed potatoes in the old days - and claimed they cured. It was the temperature that in the moisture of these foods which created and equal and opposite reaction on the patient.

The main use for hydrotherapy is for chronic patients - to increase their vitality create a favorable reaction. So They can get fevers and heal efficiently.

Hydrotherapy is not usually used for people with fevers - unless the patient has been on medics(do not fast) - or they have a morbid fear of fasting. In that case hydrotherapy will help - but it won't pack as much of a punch.

Water is a vehicle. When there is too much pressure - it balances - and reduces pressure.

A head ache can be relieved - by standing your feet in cold water. Have you ever been outside on a hot day - and ran a cold hose over your feet? Wow

Different hydrotherapy techniques can be used for different cases.

I can't remember each specific 'disease' and which method you use - yet.

But here is some good general treatment. Heat treatments are always preceded by cold treatments.

A steam bath - where your head sticks out of the 'unit' so you don't breath in the poisonous gases your eliminating - such as ammonia and uric acid.

Then after steam bath full body compress. Cotton sheet in cold water - wrung out - placed on a bed. Lie down - have sheet placed over you - act as a conductor - then 3,4,5 woolen blankets placed on - act as a insulator.
The pores will be opened from the steam bath - and the cold compress will draw the toxins out.
The end of the compress is - when it gets dry and itchy.
Back in the old days when drugs were simple compounds - you could get the sheets analyzed by a chemist and see the efficacy of this method for your self. Now the drugs are harder to label because they are a concoction of thousands.

A steam bath can also be followed by a sitz bath or a spine bath.

A sitz bath is good because it is only your hips in the water. And there it draws the toxins to your kidneys - to be easily eliminated by them.

A spine bath is good for nervous disorders and spinal injuries and others.

These baths are specially designed - but you can improvise with things at home.

Like a spine bath can be as simple as wetting a towel and lying on it on your back.


There are other local compresses, local baths for local symptoms. Maybe when i get this information down pat - i don''t want to read from the book - otherwise i copy too much.

This is purely an advertisement to see if you're interested in hydrotherapy . But please ask for more technical details and i will continue to write about hydrotherapy.

Apparently clay packs hold in moisture better than compresses. And they draw much better as well.
You'll have to stay tuned for more information on clay packs.

The most simple hydrotherapy you can do is - have a warm shower for 3 minutes. followed by a cold shower for 1 minute.

This is not effective as other methods - but it will give you an idea.

The temperature of water should definitely be only a few degrees lower than body temperature - for chronic patients - vital energy is not there to handle extremes. But it's better than malignant and destructive conditions which do not get any reaction.

Water is good for toning and other stuff.
Exercise in water is brilliant.

Where the problem is - you draw from as far distance as possible - as to circulate the problem - and get it in the organs of elimination.