Moshe R. Morris 5TJT.com Health Column
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Researchers are looking at how the inpatient sanitariums managed to reduce the numbers of those who came down with pneumonia during the Spanish Flu in 1918 as opposed to the outpatients and as opposed to the army camps. A 1918 article by Dr. Rubel, the medical director of the New England Sanitarium in Massachussetts, elaborated upon the principle means of prevention.
Dr. Roger Seheult, a noted pulmonologist and medical researcher, claims that the answer just may lay in the fact that the sanitariums used hot and cold baths to boost the immune systems of their inpatients.
Seheuult claims that effort is being made at reducing COVID-19 exposure and efforts are being made to treat COVID-19 patients after they have developed pneumonia, but very little is being done to prevent the 20% of patients without strong natural immunity from going into the hospital from their homes.
Hydrothermal therapy just may be an answer.
Hydrotherapy is one of techniques that was used in hospitals until anti-biotics were invented. Now it is only used by naturopaths.
Different water temperatures are alternated, and do achieve certain effects. The hot water dilates the blood vessels, which increases blood flow to the skin and muscles, thus improving circulation. It also gives a boost to the immune system.
Waste products are removed faster, and the nutrient/oxygen transport system is improved. Cold water, has a different effect. It stimulates the blood vessels near the skin’s surface to constrict. This sends blood away from the skin and toward the internal organs. The extra blood improves the functioning of these organs and reduces inflammation.
So putting the sick, but not hospital-ready sick person in the shower or baths and alternating between hot water and cold water may boost the immune system and reduce the percentage of COVID patients who end up going into the hospital from 20 percent to say 15% may save lives. On the other hand, who says we can trust the sanitarium records from one years ago? It may just be hokey.
Any doctors out there with some thoughts?
Are there any doctors? No, of course not, doctors don’t recommend anything our grandmother’s did.
A lot of the remedies that our grandparents did actually worked. Look at penicillin, it was found because people started to advertise that going into the woods and spending some time there would cure you from any respiratory infection. It was later found that the mold in some of the soil found on the woods would later become the most effective antibiotic. We might not understand the effect of hot and cold therapy but it sure seemed based on the limited research that it can be a potential prevention/ cure.