Natural Healing

Natural Healing Therapy: Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy literally means treatment using water. It's a known fact that water has brilliant natural healing properties. It's a true statement that "water is life" and life definitely heals the pain in some way or the other. Hydrotherapy uses water to repair, rejuvenate, and preserve the health. Typical treatments include steam baths, foot baths, saunas, hip baths, and combination of hot and cold compresses.

Natural healing hydrotherapy

A Bavarian monk in 19th century, Father Sebastian Kneipp, first used the hydrotherapy treatment. This natural healing therapy using water eliminates the waste and toxins from the body and restores the health.

Europe and Asia record the use of hydrotherapy as one of the natural healing remedies from the last century. Doctors in America recommend this treatment as a means of self-care and recharging of the body. It is always better to consult a doctor or therapist before conducting any session of hydrotherapy for a simple reason that every person may need a different type of treatment according to the body constitution and the type of disease or injury.

Basis of hydrotherapy

The physiological basis of hydrotherapy is that the cold is stimulating which causes constriction of the surface blood vessels, thrusting the blood to internal organs of the body. Mild heat relaxes and dilates the blood vessels and removes wastes from the body tissues. Alternating hot and cold water improves elimination, decreases inflammation, and stimulates blood circulation.

Guide to natural healing- hydrotherapy

Various methods used during natural healing treatments using water are:

• Whirlpool baths Moving water is used to treat the injured or stiff muscles. This process is mostly used for rehabilitation.
• Neutral baths The body, up to neck, is immersed in the water heated around 90 to 98 degrees F. This process calms the nervous system down and thus it is mostly used to treat sleeping disorders and depression.
• Contrast baths It uses application of hot and cold water alternately on the body to improve blood circulation and to prevent the sensory adaptation. A session begins with hot water and ends with cold water. Mostly, hot water duration is longer than that of the cold water.
• Hot showers It works as a common relaxation technique and sooths the overall body. It helps in detoxification by boosting the immune system.
• Cold showers Cold shower reduces the inflammation and tones the muscle. It is mainly recommended to reduce the fever and it also helps in soothing the post-exercise muscle soreness.
• Steam and Sauna baths These baths open the pores on the skin and promote elimination of toxin from the body. They also enhance the blood circulation. It is believed that this treatment is useful for weight loss.
• Steam inhalation This is the most commonly used natural therapy to ease the chest congestion in asthma or bronchitis. It dilates the mucus and triggers expectoration. Hydrotherapy is believed to be the simplest way of de-stressing the body. That's the reason why our ancestors used to take a bath after a long and tiring working day.

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