09/02/2026
Immersion bath:Natural way to health, beauty and curing diseases
Immersion bath is one of the prominent bath which is used to rejuvenate, relax and detox the body to improve health, beauty and curing the diseases without side effects.This bath add tremendous amount of energy, vitality and enhance immunity of the body. In natural way of treatment (without using synthetic drugs) the water is used as a super medicine in different ways like in baths, affusions, steam, ice packs, compress and in drinking all sum up in a special branch of nature cure called Hydrotherapy. In rigved it comes "Apsumesomo abravidant vishwani bheshaja somne" that means "God the creator of the world said Water has all properties of super medicine". In many houses people built or arrange a long tub in their bath room but they don't know it's uses and benefits.
Object and effects....
This bath is given to improve the blood circulatory system and give it a boost. The people or patient whose blood circulation is not proper and body parts remain cool then they should find it as a boon to improve their blood circulation. Hot immersion bath activates the sweat and sebaceous glands On sweating body cleanse itself by excreting toxins like urea, uric acid etc. By activation of sebaceous glands Sebum comes which improves the quality of skin add beauty and shine to the skin
Items required
For immersion bath a long tub required so that body may be completely immersed in it.Tub size 6-6.5 feet long, 2-2.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet in height. Two geysers of 25 litres capacity of each required or solar system to have abundance of hot water in absence immersion rods may be used, one air pillow on which the head should rest, two towels one for massaging under water before end of the bath other to be kept on the head.
The tub can be made of Acrylic, fibreglass, marble stone or thick tin of 18 gaze. First two are easily available ready made in the market whose prices varies from Rs. 5000 to Rs. 50,000 or even 1 lakh or more depending on the material, gadgets, fittings provided in the tub. This delux bath tub is called whirlpool bath immersion bath. Apart this bath one can have in his house, Nature cure yog centres, Resorts, Spas, five star hotels provide this facility to their clients health beauty seekers and patients. If a person he or she wants to take this bath himself in his house, a tap of hot water be fitted on one side of corner and the another tap for cold water should be on the upper side of the head to pour cold water on the head.by himself.
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Temp: summer 98-102^F
Temp: winter 99-104-106^F
Procedure
First of all immersion bath tub to be filled about 10 inches height of tub. In the beginning temp of water should be of body temp and a glass of cold water in summer season and luke warm water in winter season be given to the client or patient to drink to avoid dehydration, the head must be kept cool by wetting a small towel kept on head by cold water(60-80) degree Fahrenhei, then person lie down his or her body in water immersed completely. After few minutes the hot water (temp 102-104 degree Fahrenheit) be poured and mixed with hand clockwise round the tub to uniform the temp of the water. If whirlpool bath tub being used then mixing will be automatically done by moving the circulatory motion of water. The temp of water must be kept 99 to 104 degree Fahrenheit so that the person or patient should easily tolerate. Add hot water every 3-5 minutes to maintain or slowly raise the temp of water. Keep the head cool by pouring cold water every 2-3 minutes. After 20 minutes the massage of body under water be given or be given himself by rubbing the all parts of the body. This opens the pores of the skin, detox and cleanse the body if any person or patient have problems of spondylitis, sciatica, lumbago, arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis then it's better to mix 1-2 pounds of Epsom salt or 1 kg of common salt in the water. This salted water eases the stiffness, tension of the muscles, tissues and nerves. At the end this bath should be finished by cold shower bath (immediately after rising from the tub) in winter 3 minutes and in summer for 5 minutes
The effect varies according to the temp and duration of the bath.The hot immersion bath 102-104-106^ F beneficial in many diseases.
Indications: Obesity, cold and cough, sneezing allergic bronchitis, allergic bronchial asthma, gout, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, eczema, leucoderma, Parkinson's disease, dermatitis, backache, lumbago, sciatica, psoriasis, spondylitis, cystitis, epididimitis, glomerulonephritis, prostatitis, metabolic disorder, diabetes mellitus and insipidus, insomnia, indigestion, dyspepsia, spermatorrhea, dysmenorrhoea, Ammenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, cerebrospinal meningitis
Contraindications: cardiovascular disease, brain congestion, asterosclerosis, cerebral apoplexy, cardiac weakness, cardichypertrophy