Cyndi Gilbert, B.A. (Hons), N.D.

NATUROPATHIC

DOCTOR

Phone: 416.817.2385

Email: cyndi@cyndigilbert.ca

Category Archives: Hydrotherapy

Constitutional Hydrotherapy

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The restora­tive pow­ers of hydrother­apy may not be well known out­side the spa envi­ron­ment in our time, but the use of hydrother­apy is well doc­u­mented through­out his­tory in Egypt­ian, Roman, Chi­nese, Japan­ese, and many other cul­tures. Hip­pocrates, an ancient Greek physi­cian, pre­scribed bathing in spring water as a med­ical treat­ment. These tra­di­tions have con­tin­ued and […]

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Warming Socks

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Runny nose? Sore throat? Chills? Fever? Sneez­ing? Con­ges­tion? Headache? Any or all of the above? Use the warm­ing socks treat­ment. Warm­ing socks works by stim­u­lat­ing the body’s nat­ural heal­ing responses dur­ing acute infec­tions. In hydrother­apy terms, the tech­nique is a kind of “warm­ing com­press”, which encour­ages the body to increase over­all blood cir­cu­la­tion in order […]

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