World self-care & traditional therapies

Heat & water

Self-care and traditional practices grouped as Heat & water. A listing is not a recommendation, and no effect is promised.

• Finnish dry sauna
• Local cold pack
• Local heat therapy (pack, wrap)
• Toji / onsen bathing (balneotherapy)
• Ginger tea (shoga-yu)
• Foot bath (ashi-yu)
• Tepid prolonged bath
• Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) bath
• Kneipp water treading (Wassertreten)
• Kneipp arm bath
• Kneipp hydrotherapy (general)
• Self-moxibustion (e.g. Sennen-kyu)
• Thai herbal compress (luk pra kob)
• Thalassotherapy
• Jjimjilbang (Korean spa heat rooms)
• Hammam (steam bath)
• Contrast showers
• Cold-water immersion / Nordic cold exposure
• Ganban-yoku (hot-stone bed bathing)
• Contrast baths
• Mugwort bath (yomogi-yu)
• Mugwort steam (yomogi-mushi / ssenaegjil-type)
• Half-body bath
• Salt bath
• Plain warm water (sayu)
• Haramaki (abdominal wrap)
• Sweat lodge / temazcal-type ceremony