Bathing
In India the practice of therapeutic bathing extends back thirty-five hundred years, and the sacred Ganges River has been used by humans since the beginning of time! The Romans prescribed baths for chronic liver and kidney problems; the Chinese for cramps, convulsions, and syphilitic ulcers. Various cultures have used bathing for gout, kidney stones, rheumatism, dropsy, and melancholy.
The British city of Bath is named for the facilities built around the curative waters of the river Avon, discovered in 860 B.C. In 1920 the American physiologist H.C. Bazett observed that "a marked duiresis, or increased urinary execretion, was one of the most characteristic effects of such baths on healthy men. Further study demonstrated that whether the water was cold, tepid, or warm made no difference in this effect, but full immersion of the trunk of the body did.
Partial immersion of the limbs alone, or even the shallow immersion of a home bathtub, did not cause increased urination. Sitting up to the neck in a pool for a few hours , however, clearly increased the excretion of water, salts, and urea, the chief components of urine. "These results have been repeated in many studies. Total immersion can stimulate the body to excrete as much as two liters of sweat and urine during treatment.
I cases of edema, phlebitis, and kidney problems, this can bring significant relief. Hepato-renal failure, late-pregnancy toxemia, cirrhosis of the liver, and high blood pressure have all responded well to deep-water immersion in clinical trials in the United States, Britain, and Russia. Total immersion is tepid or cool water is still used to treat typhoid and smallpox and is based on the theories developed by a Scottish physician Dr.James Currier, working in the early 1800s.The same treatment can be used for high fever, coupled with the consumption of three or four large glasses of room-temperature water.
Swimming is often the first exercise recommended to people who have suffered an accident or injury. It is a gentle, low-impact, low-gravity activity providing a level of resistance that benefits muscle tissue and provides cardiovascular exercise as well. Even a racehorses get exercised in swimming pools as part of their training and injury-recovery program.
When we immerse ourselves in seawater, the water from a mineral spring, or any water enhanced with natural salts and add products like hydrosols and essential oils, we create a synergies that have additional positive effects. The Dead Sea is famed for its health rejuvenating properties, as are spas. A new appreciation for the healing properties of water is steadily growing, and hydrosols are a key element in the search for benefits of hydrotherapy.
Reference: Hydrosols-The Next Aromatherapy: Suzanne Catty
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