造物主的水療法

造物主的水療法

【The Maker’s Hydrotherapy】

 

Is it any wonder that water helps heal us when a large percentage of our bodies are composed of water?

Men and women have found refreshment and healing in water since the beginning of human history.

The Greeks and Romans built elaborate baths that are still standing, and more recently an American president plagued by polio made a pilgrimage to natural mineral baths in Hot Springs, Arkansas, seeking healing for his aching joints.

“Water healing,” or hydrotherapy, is simple and inexpensive in its various forms:

 

Bathe by immersion when you want to soak your sore body in a bath.

Simply immerse yourself for twenty minutes or so in 95-degree water to soothe nerves, relax muscles, and ease bladder and urinary problems.

Add healing herbs, salts, or essential oils to increase the effectiveness of the bath.

 

Showers often best meet the needs of sore shoulders, upper back, and necks.

 

Sitz baths are simply shallow baths deep enough to immerse the bottom and hips (and ease the various physical ailments and pains found in those areas).

 

Bathe your extremities—the feet and hands—in one or two buckets or containers large enough to hold them.

 

There are many ways to use hydrotherapy for the health of your body.

Here are just a few:

• Warm up cold feet with a fifteen-minute bath in hot water For tired feet, go with a cold foot bath.

• For aching or arthritic feet or hands, use two buckets or containers of water, one with hot water and the other with cold. Alternate your feet or hands between the hot bath (sixty seconds) and the cold bath (twenty seconds) for a total of twenty minutes.

• The most effective way to get your blood flowing and to stimulate circulation is to take a shower and alternate between hot and cold water for a minimum period of fifteen minutes (one minute hot followed by one minute cold).

You should make the water as hot as you can handle without burning your skin and as cold as you can handle it without pain.

Alternate between hot and cold at least seven times during this period.

If one area in particular is sore, then make sure the water is hitting that area directly if possible.