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| 8 Other Important Modalities for Healing |
| Go, and wash seven times in the river Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shall be clean. Kings V, 10 |
| Hydrotherapy |
| Hydrotherapy is the therapeutic use of water both internally or externally in any of its three forms (solid, liquid, or vapor) to treat disease or trauma or simply to strengthen one's constitution. |
| Sebastian Kneipp was a German physician and priest who utilized hydrotherapy more than any other healer. In his book My Water Cure, he gives derailed information on the application of water for medicinal purposes. Some of his suggestions include walking barefoot in wet grass, on wet stones, in newly fallen snow, and in cold water; the use of steam baths, hot baths, cold |
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