Hydrotherapy: 20 Minutes or Less for Health and Beauty

By MS RN Carola Janiak LMT

Perhaps the most useful water therapy book currently on the market, Hydrotherapy, provides detailed instructions, complete with graphics and QR codes, on a wide variety of water therapy treatments. Almost immediately after utilizing the water therapy techniques contained in Hydrotherapy, you will notice an improvement in both your physical appea

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aspire Publishing Hub, LLC
• Release date: Dec 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781962611398

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Hydrotherapy: 20 Minutes or Less for Health and Beauty

Copyright © 2023 by Carola Janiak, MS, RN, LMT

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ISBN

978-1-962611-38-1 (Paperback)

978-1-962611-39-8 (eBook)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Outline Of Treatments

2. History Of Hydrotherapy

3. Basic Guidelines Of Hydrotherapy

4. The Blood And Hydrotherapy

5. Why Is Hydrotherapy Important Today?

6. Common Hydrotherapy Treatments

A. Baths

1. Hot Foot Bath

2. Epsom Salt Bath

3. Neutral Bath

B. Steam Treatments

4. Russian Steam Bath

5. Steam Inhalation

C. Wraps

6. Wet Sheet Wrap

7. Heating Compresses

(Chest, Throat, Joints)

8. Lemon And Baking Soda Wrap

9. Castrol Oil Pack

D. Contrast Treatments

10. Fomentations

11. Contrast Foot Bath

12. Contrast Shower

E. Rubs

13. Salt Glow

14. Ice Massage

F. Wax Tx.

15. Paraffin Dip

G. Poultices

16. Charcoal Poultice

17. Cabbage Poultice

18. Raw Potato Poultice

H. Natural First Aid Kit

19. Activated Charcoal

20. Cayenne Pepper

21. Witch Hazel

7. Best Hydrotherapy Treatments For Specific Ailments

8. Resources

Gratitudes

There is no way I could have done this by myself, so I would like to thank most of the people who assisted me.

Much gratitude to Dr. Charles Thomas, who was my mentor for nearly 10 years (since1993) at Desert Springs Therapy Center in Southern California and to Bonnie H. and Kathy P. who taught me hydrotherapy in northern California at a health retreat, called Weimar Institute.

Much gratitude to my brother, Roger,