Overheating Therapy is an Ancient Cleansing Technique
Overheating therapy, or hyperthermia as a healing technique, has been known throughout history. Ancient Greek physicians raised body temperature in healing centers as an immune defense against infection (I visited a center that still exists in Turkey ). The Romans had elaborate bath complexes for cleansing and healing. American Indians used sweat lodges for spiritual and cleansing rituals. The Scandinavians used healing steam baths.
Ancient healers knew that a slight fever was a powerful healing tool against disease. Today, high heat procedures, like overheating baths, saunas and steam rooms are experiencing new popularity as people realize their enormous benefits for health. Modern health care professionals are finding that a non-life-threatening fever can do exceptional healing work. Slightly raising body temperature creates a natural defense and healing force by the immune system to rid the body of harmful pathogens... to literally burn out invading organisms.
Ancient herbalists used heat-producing herbs as protective healing measures against colds and simple infections, even against serious degenerative diseases like skin tumors. Today, alternative healing clinics use artificially induced fevers to treat infections like acute bronchitis, pneumonia, arthritic conditions like fibromyalgia and lupus, even cancers such as leukemia. AIDS syndromes like cytomegalovirus respond to blood heating.
Despite skepticism by conventional medicine, other means of treatment have and are being explored for conditions such as the HIV virus which has no one effective counter active drug therapies, mean that other methods must be tried. In 1997, CNN Health News reported on a blood heating procedure for AIDS in treating Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that produces severe skin lesions in HIV infected patients. The sores vanished in about four months after the therapy, along with other symptoms. Since then, many AIDS sufferers with sarcoma have undergone hyperthermia with success. In some cases, the blood has even tested negative for the HIV virus! (Researchers warn that even if the blood tests free of HIV, the virus may still resurface.)
Here's how overheating therapy works as a detoxification mechanism:
When exposed to heat, blood vessels in the skin dilate to allow more blood to flow to the surface, activating sweat glands which then pour water onto the skin's surface. As the water evaporates from the skin, it draws both heat and toxins from the body, becoming a natural detoxification treatment as well as a cooling system.