Wellness Dictionary
Acupunctur
Autogenic Training
Therapeutic exercise
Steambaths
Fango cure
Five tibetans
Therapeutic fasting
Hydrotherapy
Climate cure
Lymphatic drainage
Physiotherapy
Reiki
Thalasso Therapy
Acupuncture:
Traditional Chinese healing therapy. Acupuncture points – more than 300 are supposed to be spread over the whole body along the meridians (energy channels) – are stimulated with up to 20 fine, pliable needles. The puncture may arouse a slight ache, a feeling of pressure or sometimes pain. They are meant to stimulate life energy, „qi” in the meridians to flow again. „Emptiness” or „superabundance” in „Yin” and „Yang”, is supposed to be balanced. Headache, functional and psychosomatic diseases as well as pain in the musculoskeletal system are supposed to be smoothed out. Before therapy you should obtain a medical diagnosis.
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Autogenic training:
Classical auto-suggestive method of relaxation. Lying or seated you concentrate on certain body parts and say formulas to yourself („My left arm gets heavy”). In the course of this you imagine sensations like heaviness, warmth or coolness and relax. Six basic exercises refer to circulatory trouble in the case of exhaustion.
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Therapeutic exercise:
Well-directed, exactly measured out forms of exercise geared to the individual state of training or the specific disease to train stamina, power, coordination and agility. Exercise of muscles should be adapted in a way, that it is still possible to cover the requirement of oxygene from blood, which means that metabolism should stay aerobic. Important: warm up with stretching. Start slowly, avoid overexertion, take sufficient breaks and end slowly. Regular body training, three to four times a week, at least 20, better 40 minutes improves circulation, heart, breathing and the whole musculoskeletal and calliper system. It supports adaptibility and enhances bodily performance. Training of coordination protects from falling. With stamina training and well-directed therapeutical exercise agility and suppleness, otherwise decreasing in old age, is increased. Especially with back ache it is important to fortify back and abdominal muscles with stamina training and regular exercise.
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Steam baths:
Sweat vapour bath at a temperature of 37,5° to 60° C. There are partial steam baths, whole body steam baths, Russian-Turkish, Russian-Roman, Finnish and Irish-Roman baths. Partial baths direct the vapour to individual body parts, at a head bath only the head is worked on and at the steambox bath just the head is omitted. At whole body baths a room is completely set under vapour. The Finnish bath (sauna) is about hot air with occasional bursts from pourings. The Russian-Turkish bath consists of a steam bath in a room with cabins or on several storeys. A Russian-Roman bath consists of several rooms with different levels of temperature. At the Irish-Roman bath one changes between hot air and steambath rooms at different levels of temperature.
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Fango cure:
Packs with healing mud made of aluminium oxide of volcanic origin. Fango is particularly good at absorbing warmth and coolness. In physiotherapy centres it is used in conjunction with paraffine as body pack. The original mud is processed at body temperature or hot for baths, into powders with healing waters or into packs. It is a main treatment at rheumatic diseases, then complemented with massages and thermal baths. up
Five Tibetans:
Five exercises combining yoga-like postures and exercises, which are said to come from Tibetan monchs. In the beginning every exercise is carried out three times, later it is carried out twenty-one times. According to hinduistic assumptions, the exercise stimulates and harmonizes the „chakras” (energy centres) of the body. For instance is it supposed to intensify the function of the endocrine glands. The exercises are meant to activate and bring about a long and healthy life. Regular exercise can lead to an intensified bodily sensation. Concentration focussed on the exercise and intensive breathing may support general well-being.
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Healing fasting:
Reduction of food supply, not primarily to lose weight, but to treat metabolic diseases and chronical illness. Should be carried out only after medical consultation. There are several methods, e.g. Buchinger fasting as fasting with fruit juices, vegetable water and tea, complemented with therapeutical exercise, physiotherapy and psychotherapy, relaxation and health training. The theories on detoxication and purification are not scientifically proved. Healing fasting is recommendable also for healthy people. It can be an opportunity to gain self-awareness and be an impulse to alter one’s way of life and enter a health-conscious style of life.
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Hydrotherapy:
Stimuli by water application – liquid or vapoured – to stimulate metabolism and circulation, to strengthen the immune system and to alleviate pain. Gentle stimuli are caused with ablutions, rubdowns, increasing temperature partial baths, alternating temperature foot baths, cold affusions and cold water paddling. Medium-strong stimuli come up with increasing temperature leg baths, hip baths or partial body baths, alternating temperature hip baths, cold rub hip bath. Wet three-quarter baths at medium duration or sauna. A large hydrotherapy causes strong stimuli and comprises overheating baths, cold and hot whole body blizzard affusions, steam baths and wet long-term three-quarter or wholebody packs.
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Climatic cure:
Treatment with climatic stimuli, with air and sun baths in fresh air. Increasingly applied as terrain cure wit the approach of therapeutical exercise.
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Lymphatic drainage:
Relaxing, gentle stroke massage with extensive and circular, slow and pressureless movements of the fingertips on the skin directed towards the lymphatic channels. Thereby the lymph is shifted towards the centre of the body and swelling, e.g. of face and eyes are supposed to be reduced. The drainage is meant to be sensible at haematomae, fractures, menstruation problems and other trouble.
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Physiotherapy:
Treatment of disturbed physiological functions with natural means as water, air, light, electricity, cold, warmth, therapeutical exercise, massages and medicinal springwater. It is used for the treatment and alleviation of chronic and acute illness.
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Reiki:
Japanese method directed towards the removal of „energy blockades”, stress, mental problems, functional disturbances and pain and which is supposed to help against muscle tenseness, sleeplessness, rheuma and high blood pressure. At this so-called „regulation therapy” certain body regions of the clothed patient, the seven energy centres („chakras”), are stimulated by laying on of hands. It is meant to harmonize the energy flow and to activate self-healing power. A healing effect is not seriously documented.
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Thalasso therapy:
From Greek „thalassa“ (sea). Thalasso therapy means the treatment with healing factors ot the sea – sea climate, sea water or sea silt. Effective are climatic stimulus, sea salt and trace elements like iodium. In the beginning of a thalasso cure close to the coast, you agree on a treatment plan laid down by a doctor. At the classical thalasso cure you get three or four individual treatments: algae treatment, water exercise in a seawater pool, seawater spray-showers, massages, underwater pressure jet massages, jet showers, (whirl) baths, silt treatments, sea water aerosol (inhaling of a seawater-haze mixture enriched with essential oils) or healing exercise. Thalasso therapy is supposed to improve chronical illness of the respiratory tracks and the skin, instability of the circulatory system, arthritic diseases and childrens’ developmental disturbances.
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