Hydrotherapy

Introduction:
Alternative medicine is a term for the various practices that do not belong to the realm of conventional medicine, and whose effectiveness has not been tested consistently.

It isbased on superstitious notions, religious or pseudoscientific and therefore opposed to conventional medicine based on evidence and scientific procedures. Anyway, any practice of alternative medicine mayno longer be effective if it is proven scientifically, so the distinction depends on the studies available so far.
Development:
Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy, involves the use of waterfor pain relief and treating illness. It was marketed as water cure by practitioners and promoters in the 19th century.
Hydrotherapy is the generic term for water therapies using jets, underwatermassage and mineral baths.
These treatments use physical water properties, such as temperature and pressure, for therapeutic purposes, to stimulate blood circulation and treat the symptoms of certaindiseases.
Various forms of hydrotherapy have been recorded in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations. Egyptian royalty bathed with essential oils and flowers, while Romans had communal publicbaths for their citizens. Hippocrates prescribed bathing in spring water for sickness. Other cultures noted for a long history of hydrotherapy include China and Japan, this latter being centredprimarily around Japanese hot springs, or (onsen). Many such histories predate the Roman thermae.
Hydrotherapy dates from about 1829 when Vincent Priessnitz , a farmer of Gräfenberg in Silesia, began hispublic career in the paternal homestead, extended so as to accommodate the increasing numbers attracted by the fame of his cures.
Hydrotherapy involves a range of methods and techniques, many of whichuse water as a medium to facilitate thermoregulatory reactions for therapeutic benefit. the therapeutic benefits have long been recognised, . In 1883, a writer stated "Not, be it observed, that...