A pioneer of natural medicine across the Rhine for a century, Abbé Kneipp is relatively unknown in France. Its principle: cold water is good for your health! Thanks to a very simple technique that revises the codes for baths and showers.
The story of the “water doctor” began in 1847. Sebastian Kneipp, sick with tuberculosis and declared incurable, discovered a publication by Dr. Hahn: “On the strength and effects of fresh water on the human body “. In desperation, he tries this revolutionary treatment. On the program: running three times a week and bathing in water at 5°C!
Thanks to this method, it heals in a few weeks. He then decided to continue his research on hydrotherapy and successfully treated family and friends. Accused of charlatanism by the church, he was sent to Bavaria to a monastery.
In 1886, he published his first book “Ma cure d’eau”.
He perfected his method in order to make it a true lifestyle that considers the body as a whole. He will end up treating Pope Leo XIII.
Prevention is better than cure, proclaimed the abbot. “If there is one remedy for me, it will be water,” says Sebastian Kneipp. Nowadays, in France, we discover its principle and its care products, more current than ever.
According to Kneipp, a fan of the Scottish shower, it’s about toughening up the body in order to prevent disease.
Cold water is ideal for “restoring order in the body”. It removes superfluous heat (including perspiration) while forcing the body to generate its own calorific energy in order to eliminate “useless and unhealthy” elements (“fats and bad moods”!).
Hot water is only used to support the body in the inability to produce its natural heat (when you feel cold) or to intensify the benefit of cold water.
The hot-cold alternation dilates and contracts the blood vessels, which reactivates the autonomic nervous system (heart, liver, stomach, etc.), but also the immune system.
If it is a question of keeping in shape, between one and three one-minute cold showers in the morning, per week will be sufficient. You can also soak or water the painful area of the body (arms, knees, face or elbows, depending on the problem).
Localized applications of water decongest the part of the body treated, but also act on other places by a derivative effect like acupuncture and reflexology.
Thus, a cold foot bath also relieves headaches: indeed, to fight against the cold, the brain sends blood to the feet, this lightens the head.
– Anti stress
– Lightens the legs
– Anti-migraine
– Fight against insomnia
– Excellent against stomach aches
– Reduces fatigue and regulates tension
– The body must be constantly warm.
– Cold water applications should always be short
– After application, warm up quickly to fully benefit from the reaction
– Hot water applications should also be used wisely
– Applications are made at least one hour before and two to three hours after meals.
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