
At-Home Hydrotherapy Applications to Support Your Body
HYDROTHERAPY: “Water contains healing, it is the simplest, cheapest and – if used correctly – the safest remedy” – Sebastian Kneipp My Water Cure What is hydrotherapy: the use of hot and cold water applications on the skin to move blood and influence cellular function in the body Actions of hydrotherapy applied to COVID-19:- Stimulate the immune system
- Alter body temperature
- Reduce congestion pulsing blood
- Improving vitality (pre-infection application)
Short COLD-initial response to short exposures to cold | Long COLD-body’s response to long exposures to cold | HOT | |
Blood vessels | Constriction | Dilation | Dilation |
- Contrast showers:
- Strengthens the immune system
- Improves vitality
- Best for use before becoming ill to support the body
- Constitutional Hydrotherapy:
- Pulsing blood flow in and out of the lungs to reduce congestion of fluid in the lungs
- Stimulate immune cells to travel to the lungs and activate
- Heating Compress:
- Drives blood to the surface of the chest to decrease congestion in the lungs
- Increases the core temperature improving viral fighting
- Hot Fomentation:
- Peat therapeutics and balneotherapy:
- Antiviral
- Anti-inflammatory
- Hyperthermic
- Local vasodilation
- Contains humic and fulvic acid, minerals and sulfur.
- Proliferation of white blood cells
- Raises the body temperature leading to increased heat shock proteins, antioxidant defenses and endorphins
- In a hyperthermic bath
- As a poultice over the chest
- Cardiac disease
- Diabetes, MS or other conditions that influence pain sensation
- Pregnancy and breast feeding
- Wade B, Saine A.Lectures in Naturopathic Hydrotherapy. Sandy, OR: Eclectic Medical Publications; 1988.
- Robert Barry, ND. Textbook of Natural Medicine. Chapter 40.