Hydrotherapy Use For Medicinal Purposes-2

Cold Shower Health

Once we warmed up, we are able to apply the cold water. Once we have completed the cold application, we have to help the body to react, which, if is necessary, we will dry quickly and we be warmed more or less, depending on the reaction capacity that our body has by itself.

The duration and temperature of the water depends largely on the reaction capacity of the person. The more best cold, and the more durable better, but mostly without exceeding the threshold of reaction: is worthless bring the body to the limit of its endurance, as this is not curative but destructive.


We must look as a curative agent the hot reaction, the congestion of the skin, indicative of the decongesting of the internal organs. The application of cold water is contraindicated in cases of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. You should never apply this therapy with a full stomach, so we will do before meals or at least two hours after this.


Do not apply either in pregnant women or during menstruation, because on one hand it could increase the abortion risk, and on the other hand could hinder the flow of the menses, or even cut it, which is extremely dangerous.


General applications
General applications of cold water have a toning and revitalizing effect on the body in general and the circulatory system and the nervous system in particular. Increase organic defenses and strengthen the nerves, being a good sedative in nervous moments.


Showers
Cold showers must be generally brief, a maximum of one minute. The important thing is that the body then reacts with warm in skin. If we can not handle well the cold shower, we can start the shower from warm or hot water,and gradually lower the temperature until get the cold water that we can keep well. In any case, after any shower.we should finish with cold water.


Rubs
The rubs are made using a wet sponge or wet cloth and drained to avoid dripping. As the name suggests,consists to rub the whole body ( except the head ) several times, always in the direction of the venous circulation, ie , toward the heart.

The rubs are used when the person is in a state of weakness that inhibits react well to the cold shower. As always, we know that it worked well if the body responds with warm skin once the application is finished.


A cold rub applied daily, in the morning when rising, will strengthen and stimulate our immune system to fight any disease. It is a preventive measure of first order.

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Hydrotherapy Use For Medicinal Purposes-1

Hydrotherapy Benefits

Water use for medicinal purposes goes back many centuries ago. Hippocrates says: " The medical should consider the use of water by way of therapeutic agent and recommend it in some diseases, especially when required to combat excessive heat that causes fevers of all kinds in the human body."

Obviously the important role of water to fight internal, external or local fever.

 
Cold shower health
The most interesting applications from the therapeutic point of view are of the cold water. The effects of these applications on the body are very beneficial. In general, improve blood circulation, decongest and activate the organs,tones the nerves, lower the fever exces.

The healing power of water lies in the fact that is an agent capable of eliciting a healing response in the body.

When cold water comes in contact with the skin, the blood vessels of the skin ( peripheral vasoconstriction ) are constricted. Immediately thereafter, follows the body's reaction to this state of skin cooling: increases the flow of blood to the surface( hyperemia), whereby is decongests the organ corresponding to that area. Ie,the temperature and blood excess of an organ is transferred to the skin.


Cold water health benefits
This produces, in addition to what we have already mentioned, a revival of the functions of the skin and the improvement in the immune system.

The healing power of cold water is manifested in the the body warm reaction. For example, if we dip our arm with in cold water, you will notice after feeling cold a characteristic heat that progressively invade the area that has been wet, and we can even see the area more or less reddened .


This is the hot reaction (vasodilatation, hyperemia). If such a reaction occurs, it means that you have properly applied the therapy, being then more harm than beneficial.

How use the hydrotherapy to get the body reaction? Well as with all therapies, applying the adequate dosage to the body reaction capacity to treat. In the above example,if  we wet an arm in water for too long, the cold will penetrate to the bone, and the reaction will be impossible: we will have exceeded the dose.


If we take a brief cold shower of 5 seconds, we will notice immediately after a heat throughout the skin. But if we dive in very cold water for ten minutes, we will be shivering and possibly get a cold: no reaction from excess of cold. The important thing is that the cold does not get to penetrate . If we shiver is a sign that we are exceeding.


Therefore, the essentials before start the application, is that the body should be hot : if we have enough stored heat, we will not get cold. If we start an application of cold water with the intemperate body, we will not get the hot decongestant reaction. Therefore, if we are cold, it is best to preheat the body using warm, stove, hot water, etc.

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