The use of water for healing is a practice that has been used throughout history. Cultures from the beginning have settled around bodies of water, be they lakes, rivers or oceans, and many religious rituals and ideologies are based on the ways in which water provides restoration, rebirth, and renewal. Asian cultures have used various treatments for methods of healing, and the Greek doctors, such as Hippocrates where widely recognized for the results they produced when treating patients with hot seawater soaks for energy and health benefits.
For some years, the procedures were considered pagan in nature, and declined in use with the birth of Christianity. However, in 1578, Ambroise Pare, considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern medicine, recommended that his patients take regular baths in the sea. The water had astringent properties, which healed and hydrated the body. Today, tribesman can still be seen bathing in the Dead Sea, completely clothed. And now throughout Europe, one of the major industries in tourism, is made up of people traveling to natural baths and spas for the specific reason of soaking in the healing waters. And in many cases, this form of therapy is covered under the medical services and insurance those countries provide for their citizens.
The heat and the water are detoxifying, cleaning all the cells of the body at one time. Many people are choosing to detoxify their lives, in the foods that they eat, the cars that they drive, and the use of hot tubs and portable spas in their own homes. These toxins can be removed from the body through saunas, and sweating. This is directly transcended from the Roman bath and steam houses, the Native American sweat lodges and the Russian Banya, to name just a few. This has been helping people throughout the ages, and is becoming more widely used not only in the medical world, but in our homes as well.
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