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 Water Healing Therapy

Hydrotherapy is another ancient healer that can be traced through the centuries. In the region between the Caucasus Mountain range and Black Sea, the ancestral line cave dwellers known as Abkhazians carried their sick to ancient bathing places such as natural hot spring. Man has instinctively been drawn to healing waters to restore and rejuvenate, rivers, lakes, spring, and oceans were common attractions. The oceans were common attractions. The ocean, especially is known for its healing powers. it is rich with minerals (especially iodine), and its perfect balance of briny nutrients made it an ideal secret method of rejuvenation.

The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used the bath as a healing treatment. In some places such as Sparta, hydrotherapy was made into law, requiring the townspeople to take cold baths frequently. Public baths were a popular form of medicine in Rome for more that five hundred years.

Today people are no longer required by law to take public baths, but hydrotherapy has remained intact as a powerful healer. Literally translated, hydrotherapy means "water healing". In the home, this form of therapy involves the extend use of baths or showers using hot and cold temperatures or sometimes a combinations of both.

Hydrotherapy can also be defined as the use of water, in any of its forms-solid, liquid, steam and sauna-in the treatment of disease or trauma. both internally. Hydrotherapy is extremely pleasurable and effective in relieving muscle soreness, including relaxation, increasing oxygen uptake, and improving lymphatic flow to promote health and healing in all body's tissue. In general, its strengthens and cleans out the body.

 

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