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Water Therapy - technique
Don't just jump into the hottub. Learn more about the wide variety of baths available for you at home.
Hot Bath - To make you calmer
If you have trouble sleeping or are depressed, try a hot bath.
Water with the temperature of around 37 to 40 C is used in this method. 5 minutes bath is considered enough for muscle relaxation and will give the calm effect for the body.
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The duration of bath can be stepped up gradually day by day, up to 10 minutes per session. Oh, a word of caution -do not stay longer than the recommended period because a hot bath that prolonged into a long soak could make you feel lack of energy.
Very hot baths if used daily will create physical weakness and depression. If you have acne, don't use hot bath.
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Cold Bath to Energize your Body
For people who would like to improve blood circulation or reduce swelling, this is a useful medication. If you would like to make your immune system stronger, you are also advised to take cold morning shower daily.
If you decided to go and see a water therapy practitioner, you will see that it is common for ice to be added into the bath tub to make the water temperature very low. Of course, you don't need to do this in the morning since it's already too cold.
Cold bath however, IS NOT advisable to be used by the elderly or babies.
Hot full Epsom salts bath
Normally used to cleanse the body or used during fever. This time, instead of just water, you would also need Epsom salt. It is similar to hot bath except that 1-1.5 pound of Epson salts is dissolved in water. It is said that for the best result, after the bath a patient should go to bed, cover up well and sweat.
Neutral Bath as Tranqulizers
Before tranquilizers are introduced, neutral bath is the normal way to calm down an agitated patient. This therapy puts the person in a sedative condition and it relaxes the nervous system. This therapy is considered to be the most dependable and effective way to naturally wipe out stress.
In this technique, a patient will be immersed in a bathtub, where the water in the tub will be maintained at around the body temperature (34 to 36 C). The patient will often be left for more than 3 hours, and under certain circumstances could be left for as long as 24 hours! In certain parts of the world where male circumcision is done traditionally (without tranquilizers), young boys have been reported to be left in a river for a few hours before the operation is conducted. Although this traditional method was very popular in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, modern circumcision technique where anesthetic is used proved to be a more popular choice among parents nowadays.
Steam Bath to Flush Toxins
The idea of steam bath is quite an ugly one. We all picture semi naked men in their 50s, with wet hairy chest sweating in a hot room. Yes, it may look ugly, but steam bath like that is good for the body. It encourages the opening of pores and sweating, both have the effect of cleansing and rejuvenating.
Floatation
Fancy taking a bath at Dead Sea? Experts suggest that lying faced up in heavily salted water is an exceptionally refreshing and could induce a relaxing sleep.
Morning Walk
An old tonic. Walking barefooted on the wet morning grass daily. Not only it’s fun, it also encourage you to wake up early and is believed to be able to channel body’s energies towards health. Go and try it, you'll feel wondeful !
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