Home Constitutional Hydrotherapy

Items Needed:

• 1 wet towel heated in microwave or with hot water until just tolerated when pressed to the wrists (not too hot to burn the person)
• 1 towel placed in cold water with ice cubes
• bed with 1 wool blanket and 1 sheet (more blankets if available)

Instructions:

• Place 1 or more wool blankets on bed-like area, followed by a sheet.
• The person is to lie down in the center of the sheet, nude to the top of the pelvic bone. Add a pillow under the head if the person would be more comfortable.
• Wrap the person in the sheet and blankets, leaving the front exposed.
• Apply the hot towel to the person's front from chin to pubic bone.
• Wrap the person immediately.
• Leave these hot towels on the patient for 5 minutes.
• During these 5 minutes, prepare the second towel by soaking it in ice water.
• Wring the towel as dry as possible.
• At the end of 5 minutes, remove the hot towel and apply the cold towel.
• Wrap securely.
• Leave for 10 minutes.
• After the 10 minutes, check the towel. If the towel has not heated up, leave it on for another 5 minutes or until it is warm to the touch.
• Have the person flip over onto the stomach and do the identical procedure on the back.
• After completing both sides, allow the person to rest quietly for 10-15 minutes.

Clincial Indications:

• Asthma, chronic
• Bronchitis
• Cancer
• Crohn's disease
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Dysmenorrhea
• Hemorrhoids
• Hypertension
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• PMS
• Psoriasis
• Obesity
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Ulcerative colitis
• Almost any medical condition except those listed in Contraindications section
• Colds
• Dyspepsia
• Environmental hypersensitivity
• Flu
• Infertility
• Lymphangitis
• Pleurisy
• Raynaud's disease
• Varicose veins

Contraindications:

• Acute asthma
• Acute bladder infection
• Fear of treatment
• Malignant fever
• Patient with oral temperature less than 97 F

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