5 Benefits of Hydrotherapy
Antibiotics and other allopathic drugs and medicines help cure diseases and expedite the process of recovery. These drugs can also create side effects and affect your sleep and work pattern causing lethargy and drowsiness. There are alternative remedies that can help alleviate the pain and ensure permanent cure. One such treatment is hydrotherapy. Hydrotherapy refers to use of water to cure diseases; the treatment includes different kinds of therapy, broadly categorized as external and internal hydrotherapy. The treatments are designed in a manner to target specific kinds of diseases. Listed below are 5 benefits of hydrotherapy.
1. It aids the process of detoxification
Substances such as toxins, chemical, undigested protein, mucoid plaque and parasites are often accumulated in the body’s lymphatic system due to various factors such as lifestyle, poor eating habits and the external environment. This makes your body vulnerable to several diseases. Colon hydrotherapy helps internal cleansing and eliminates such materials from the body.
2. Stimulates and helps relax the muscles
Hydrotherapy is highly effective in treating illnesses such as arthritis, poor blood circulation, sore muscles, repeated stress injury and rheumatism. The change in lifestyle, desk jobs and repeated muscle movements can cause your muscles to become sore. Hot water hydrotherapy helps relax muscles and tissues and loosens them.
3. Increase in digestion and metabolic activity
Repeated primal shower – cold shower alternated with hot shower helps muscle contraction. When the body receives hot showers, the blood and lymph moves towards the outer skin cooling the internal system and the cold shower has the contrasting effect. This helps detoxify the body, cleanse the pores and increase muscle elasticity and improves digestion.
