Identifier: germannaturecure00aida (find matches)
Title: The German nature-cure, and how to practise it
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Aidall, I
Subjects: Hygiene Therapeutics, Physiological Hygiene Therapeutics
Publisher: London : Nichols & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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more comfortable. Anystones or stone-plastered place will do, however small. Thechief thing is that the stones should be wet, and activemovement be made while standing on them. It should notbe done longer than from three to fifteen minutes, accordingto the state of the patient. Even the weakest and mostsensitive should not shrink from this bracing remedy. Thosewho suffer from cold feet, throatache, catarrhs, pressure ofblood to the head and following headache, should often use 8o THE GERMAN NATURE-CURE. this application. For re-clothing and re-warming, the samerules apply as for walking on wet grass. This may also bedone with cold feet. Water-treading is also an exercise that acts on the wholebody, and stengthens the entire system. It acts favourablyon the kidneys and urethra, preventing on that account manycomplaints which arise in the kidneys, bladder, and abdomen.It also relieves the chest, and draws gas from the stomach,and is particularly useful in head complaints, headache, etc.
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Fig. 23. The feet must be moved up and down in cold water,coming to the ankles, in any bath or tub. It acts better, ofcourse, when the water reaches the legs, or even the knees.The duration can be from one to six minutes. The colder thewater is, the better. Exercise must take place afterwards tothorough re-warming. (Kneipp.) There is no fear of catching cold with these procedures,but weak and nervous people must begin cautiously and BAREFOOT-WALKING. 8l tentatively by accustoming the feet first to rubbings with awet towel, and for water-treading, using at first tepid water. Kneipp has also made sandal wearing a popular institution inevery Nature-Cure establishment. When worn without socksor stockings, they form a comfortable kind of perpetualbarefoot-walking. But even with the former, they are anadmirable hygienic sort of foot covering, allowing perfectelasticity to the foot, and free circulation of air. They aremade after various patterns and shapes, and are now to beobtained in all

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