HEALTH REFORM AND THE LATTER RAIN

2. HEALTH REFORM AND THE LATTER RAIN HYDROTHERAPY THE USE OF WATER TO HEAL

3. Bathing. • 814. Bathing frees the skin from the accumulation of impurities, which are constantly collecting, and keeps the skin moist and supple.--T., V. III, p. 70. {HL 192.2} • 815. Twice a week she should take a general bath, as cool as will be agreeable, a little cooler every time, until the skin is toned up.--T., V. I, p. 702. {HL 192.3} • 816. Upon rising in the morning, most persons would be benefited by taking a sponge bath, or, if more agreeable, a hand bath, with merely a wash-bowl of water; this will remove impurities from the skin.--H. to L., Chap. 4, p. 63. {HL 192.4} • 817. Frequent bathing is very beneficial, especially at night just before retiring, or upon rising in the morning. It will take but a few moments to give the children a bath, and to rub them until their bodies are in a glow. This brings the blood to the surface, relieving the brain.--C. T., p. 141. {HL 192.5} • 818. Bathe frequently in pure soft water, followed by gentle rubbing.--H. to L., Chap. 3, p. 54.

4. If the patient had taken a course to relieve overburdened nature in season, and understandingly used pure soft water, this dispensation of drug-mortality might have been wholly averted. The use of water can accomplish but little, if the patient does not feel the necessity of also strictly attending to his diet. {2SM.451}

5. I saw that it was a sacred duty to attend to our health, and arouse others to their duty, and yet not take the burden of their case upon us. Yet we have a duty to speak, to come out against intemperance of every kind,--intemperance in working, in eating, in drinking and in drugging--and then point them to God's great medicine, water, pure soft water, for diseases, for health, for cleanliness, and for a luxury. {3SM 280}

6. Paulson Collection Pg, 28 , 29 • Now in regard to that which we can do for ourselves. There is a point that requires careful, thoughtful consideration. I must become acquainted with myself, I must be a learner always as to how to take care of this building, the body God has given me, that I may preserve it in the very best condition of health. I must eat those things which will be for my very best good physically, and I must take special care to have my clothing such as will conduce to a healthful circulation of the blood. I must not deprive myself of exercise and air. I must get all the sunlight that it is possible for me to obtain. I must have wisdom to be a faithful guardian of my body. I should do a very unwise thing to enter a cool room when in a perspiration; I should show myself an unwise steward to allow myself to sit in a draught, and thus expose myself so as to take cold.

7. I should be unwise to sit with cold feet and limbs and thus drive back the blood from the extremities to the brain or internal organs. I should always protect my feet in damp weather. I should eat regularly of the most healthful food which will make the best quality of blood, and I should not work intemperately if it is in my power to avoid doing so. And when I violate the laws God has established in my being, I am to repent and reform, and place myself in the most favorable condition under the doctors God has provided,--pure air, pure water, and the healing, precious sunlight. Water can be used in many ways to relieve suffering. Draughts of clear, hot water, taken before eating (half a quart, more or less), will never do any harm, but will rather be productive of good. A cup of tea made from catnip herb will quiet the nerves. Hop tea will induce sleep. Hop poultices over the stomach will relieve pain. If the eyes are weak, if there is pain in the eyes, or inflammation, soft flannel clothes wet in hot water and salt, will bring relief quickly.

8. When the head is congested, if the feet and limbs are put in a bath with a little mustard, relief will be obtained. There are many more simple remedies which will do much to restore healthful action to the body. All these simple preparations the Lord expects us to use for ourselves, but man's extremities are God's opportunities. If we neglect to do that which is within the reach of nearly every family, and ask the Lord to relieve pain, when we are too indolent to make use of these remedies within our power, it is simply presumption. The Lord expects us to work in order that we obtain food. He does not propose that we shall gather the harvest unless we break the sod, till the soil, and cultivate the produce. Then God sends the rain and the sunshine and the clouds to cause vegetation to flourish. God works and man cooperates with God. Then there is seed time and harvest. God has caused to grow out of the ground, herbs for the use of man, and if we understand the nature of those roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor, so frequently, and people would be in much better health than they are today. I believe in calling upon the Great Physician when we have used the remedies I have mentioned. {PC. 28 – 29}

9. HYDROTHERAPY • Friday, Oct. 3, 1873. The horse called Parson was very sick. We feared he would die. We doctored him as well as we could, putting hot flannel blankets around him. He was relieved after several applications. We learned that hydrotherapy is for animals as well as for human beings. {3MR 168.3}

10. Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation. -- T., V. II, p. 531. {HL 30.1} • Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. • Deu 12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

11. 1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. • Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, • Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

12. RED BLOOD CELLS • (RBC). This cell, which is the red color of the blood, is the carrier of nutrition and oxygen to every tissue and fiber of your body. And it also takes away carbon dioxide and other waste products. Thus it both nourishes and cleanses. RBC’s are so tiny that 3,000 of them could lie side by side in a distance of but one inch. In an amount of blood smaller than a tiny drop (one cubic millimeter),

13. WHITE BLOOD CELLS • (WBC). These colorless micro-dots protect the body against toxins, disease organisms and various irritants. When a person is well, there are normally about 7,000 to 9,000 WBC’s in every tiny blood drop. But when infection is present, this increases to 15,000 to 25,000.

14. cooperation • All in all, there are about 25 trillion blood cells in your body. Laid end-to-end, they would reach to nearly four times around the earth. As the healing, life-giving blood enters the injured or infected area, it brings nourishment and oxygen. It also brings phagocytes (wbc),which literally gobble up the infection and foreign substances. And the blood also provides the materials with which the body can rebuild the torn, diseased structures in the body.

15. LIMITATIONS OF THE BLOOD • (1) There really is not enough of it. Your heart would have to be several times larger than it is, in order to provide you with all the blood you need. This is why you should not swim for thirty minutes after a meal: there is not enough blood to care for initial digestion and muscle activity at the same time. It is the same when there is a problem in part of your body: You need more blood-or a quicker flow of blood-than normal in order to bring healing.At any given time, at least one quarter of all the blood in your body is in your lungs,rapidly moving past the 1,200 square yards of lung surface area in order to receive a fresh supply of air. Every second 2 trillion blood cells pass by the air chambers of the lungs. But it still means that one-fourth of your body’s five quarts of blood are in the lungs, being refreshed there.

16. LIMITATIONS OF THE BLOOD • (2) The blood has a tendency to congest, or pool, in a damaged or infected part of your body. The result is a clogging up of too much blood in one place. The blood circulation to that part has slowed and the pooled blood has less ability to nourish and heal. So, we need to bring larger quantities of blood to the afflicted areas, and we need to move it in and out again more rapidly. We need to loosen up, speed up, and equalize the blood circulation. We do not want it pooling in one area; we want it moving back and forth through the body at a good pace, for this is what keeps the blood healthy, and full of fresh oxygen from the lungs, and abundant nourishment from the liver and portal vein. And, interestingly enough, as the blood quickens in healthy activity, the bone marrow begins to make more blood than it normally would!

17. WATER • Water has several unique properties which contribute to its effectiveness as a therapeutic agent. It has an ability to store and transmit heat, which renders it most appropriate for treatment purposes. Water absorbs more heat for a given weight than any other substance--almost twice as much as alcohol or paraffin, 10 times more than copper or iron, and 30 times more than lead or gold. Water is also a good conductor of heat. • The solvent properties of water account for its usefulness in the most common of all hydrotherapy procedures, baths and showers. Water is commonly considered the universal solvent. Water's non-toxicity allows for its use both internally and externally, even in individuals who are extremely sensitive to their surroundings. Water also has the ability to change states within a narrow, easily obtainable temperature range. As ice, it is an effective cooling agent. In the liquid state, water may be applied as packs, baths, sprays, compresses, and douches at any desired pressure and temperature. As a vapor, it may be employed in vapor or steam baths or by inhalation.

18. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS • The physiological effects of hydrotherapy may be classified as thermal, mechanical, and chemical. Thermal effects are produced by the application of water at temperatures above or below that of the body. The greater the variation from body temperature, the greater the effect produced, other factors being equal. The mechanical effects are produced by the impact of water upon the surface of the body in the form of sprays, douches, frictions, whirlpools, etc. The chemical effects are produced when it is taken by mouth or used to irrigate a body cavity, such as the large colon. The most commonly utilized effect, therapeutically, is the thermal one.

19. HYDROTHERAPY – EFFECT ON THE BLOOD • “Following all sorts of cold procedures associated with mechanical stimulation, and after hot baths or douches when they are followed by cold applications, there is a decided increase in the number of [blood] cells in the peripheral circulation. This increase often amounts to from 20 to 35 percent in the red corpuscles [RBC’s] and from 200 to 300 percent in the white corpuscles [WBC’s]; the hemoglobin also shows an increase of 5 percent or more. “Not only does the activity of the peripheral blood vessels keep the blood cells evenly distributed, but the normal movements of the spleen, ie., its alternate dilation and contraction, are also a factor in distributing the white blood cells evenly throughout the body. Various applications to the abdomen and over the spleen stimulate this organ to increased activity. The splenic douche, alternate hot and cold applications, and cold friction to the abdomen are especially efficient in this respect.

20. “Another factor in changes in blood counts is the increase of blood volume (fluid) found to occur with applications of heat, so that heat alone may result in a relative lowering of the hemoglobinand the red cells. Strange as it may seem, both hot and cold baths cause an absolute increase in the white blood cells. But in induced fever therapy the white cells in the periphery increase up to 10,000 or 15,000. The more or less permanent increases in these elements after a course or series of tonic treatments must be attributed to an entirely different mechanism, and can scarcely be explained in any other way, than by the stimulation of the blood-forming organs.”

21. PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECTS OF COLD • “In one experiment the middle finger was able before complete fatigue to execute work equal to 5.139 kilogram-meters (a kilogrammeter is equal to 1/75 of a horsepower). After a cold bath at 500 F. for fifteen seconds, the same muscles were able to do work equivalent to 9.126 kg-m. before complete fatigue. . Even after the muscles have been fatigued by active work and are able to work but a very short time longer, the giving of cold treatment restores them to their usual capacity for work, or the working ability may even be increased over the normal.” • CONSTRICTION OF BLOOD VESSELS AND MUSCLES

22. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF HEAT • “Hot baths have the opposite effect; i.e., the muscles become more quickly fatigued and are able to do less work. On an average, various cold treatments, increase the working ability about 30 percent, and hot treatments decrease muscular capacity to the same extent. • DILATION OF BLOOD VESSELS AND MUSCLES

23. “Sugar from foods is the source of muscle energy. In muscular activity it is changed to lactic acid, the accumulation of which produces fatigue. But increased circulation carrying plenty of oxygen quickly changes the lactic acid back into a source of energy. Tea and coffee, while acting as muscle stimulants, add a fatigue poison, which is not easily or quickly got rid of, thus lengthening the recovery time, lessening the work done, and decreasing endurance.

24. CHEMOTAXIS • PHAGOCYTOCIS • LOCOMOTION

25. Comparing Major Responses Hot and Cold: General Effects Hot Primary: excitant if intense Short: depressant by atonic reaction Prolonged: mixed excitant and depressant Cold Primary: excitant after initial depressant Short applications: excitant by tonic reaction Prolonged applications: depressant by the influence on the metabolic function Hot Applications pg. 46 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

26. Comparing Major Responses Hot and Cold: Special Effects Hot Heart: first slow, then fast Vessels: the action, dilation; the reaction, contraction when intense Nerves: excites Muscles: increases volume Cold Heart: first fast, then slow Vessels: the action, contraction; the reaction, dilation Nerves: benumbs Muscles: reduces volume Hot Applications pg. 46 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

27. Comparing Major Responses Hot and Cold: Special Effects Hot Respiration: quickens Stomach: decreases hydrochloric acid and motion Blood: increases blood count, both red and white blood cells; increases phagocytosis Cold Respiration: slows Stomach: increases hydrochloric acid and motion Blood: increases blood count, both red and white blood cells; increases phagocytosis unless prolonged chilling Hot Applications pg. 46 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

28. Comparing Major Responses Hot and Cold: SpecialEffects Hot Kidneys: reduces activity Metabolism: decreases carbon dioxide in the blood by over-breathing, increases urea and general protein wastes Cold Kidneys: congests and stimulates Metabolism: increases carbon dioxide in the blood by increasing production of CO2; decreases urea; increases oxidation Hot Applications pg. 46 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

31. HYDROTHERAPY TERMS • Compresses / cold & heating / HOT • Fomentations • Baths / fever bath / hyperthermia / nuetral bath • Sprays / douche • Hot foot bath / russian steam bath • Steam inhalation • Wet sheet pack / hot blanket pack • SITZ BATH

32. Hydrotherapy Techniques • Revulsive • Derivitive • Reflex

33. PRINCIPLES OF PROCEEDURE • Plan ahead • Assemble all of the materials • Stabalize room temperature • Have everything ready • Monitor time • Be quiet • Explain to the patient • Keep the head cool • Monitor temperature • Keep patient hydrated • Always finish with cold

38. Hydrotherapy and Pain

39. Treating Pain with Hydrotherapy The application of heat or cold to relieve the pain of an acute or chronic traumatic and inflammatory disorders has been used for centuries, and is still a method without peer in the area of pain control. No other method is so effective, so safe and easy, and so free from side effects and expense. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

40. Hot or Cold? • Cold packs will often relieve pain and reduce inflammatory edema in such disorders as sore throat, sinusitis, and appendicitis. • In chronic conditions, heat is generally more effective and pleasant. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

41. Bursitis and Arthritis • In bursitis and arthritis most patients find that ice packs give greater relief of pain and stiffness. • The average range of knee movement greatly improves after either hot or cold applications. • However, in a bursa or any closed space with fluid under tension, heat may increase the tension and aggravate the pain. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

42. Pain from Burns • Cold water should be used to relieve the pain from burns. • Immediately immerse the burned area in very cold or ice water or spray cold water over the area until the patient is free of pain. • This treatment not only relieves pain, but reduces the extent of injury, inflammation, and swelling, and often prevents blister formation. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

43. Aches and Pains • Heat or cold can often bring some relief of headaches and other aches and pains of non-traumatic origin. • Both are worth trying in persistent pain. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

44. Aches and Pains • Chronic low back pain will often be relieved by either ice packs or ice massage. • Wet bath towels can be refrigerated or placed in the freezer and then layered over the painful area. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

45. Aches and Pains • A proper size container of ice and water can be used for intermittent immersion of hand or foot. • Wet or moist heat is generally more effective than dry heat, but many persons tolerate heating pads, steam packs, hydroculators and Thermophore better than direct moist heat. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

46. Referred Pain • The nerve impulses received from certain body parts enter the spinal cord at the same point as the nerve impulses from a diseased organ. • This relationship may cause referred pain in the healthy part rather than in the diseased organ. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

47. Referred Pain • When painful stimulus arises in an area of low sensitivity which is in reflex connection with an area of high sensitivity, pain is felt in the area of high sensitivity. How to Use Water to Treat Illness pg. 60 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

48. Reflexive Relationships • There are reflexive relationships between the skin of various parts of the body and the blood vessels of certain remote organs. • The skin over the lower sternum is connected reflexively with the kidneys. Remedies for Home and Institution pg. 4 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

49. Reflexive Relationships • By altering the temperature of the hands and feet the circulation in the pelvis, chest, and head (specifically the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, nose, throat, bronchi; and the brain) can be influenced. Remedies for Home and Institution pg. 4 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.

50. Reflexive Relationships • The feet are in a reflexive relationship with the bladder, prostate, and testes in the male, and the uterus, tubes, ovaries, and vagina in the female. • Cold to the face contracts the cerebral blood vessels Remedies for Home and Institution pg. 4 – Home Remedies: by Agatha Thrash, M.D. & Calvin Thrash, M.D.