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Sauna
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Sauna
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Sauna
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Sauna
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The
Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy
By Nenah Sylver, Ph.D.
335 Pages, $34.95 |
About the Author
Nenah Sylver has enjoyed a rich and varied career as a Reichian psychotherapist, a holistic health educator, and an internationally published writer. In 1996 she received her doctorate in Transformational Psychology, an interdisciplinary program of bodymind psychotherapy, holistic health, and gender studies, from the Union Institute. Dr. Sylver’s last book, The Handbook of Rife Frequency Healing: Holistic Technology for Cancer and Other Diseases (Stone Ridge, New York: The Center for Frequency Education, 2001), explores a safe, non-invasive modality developed in the 1930s that uses frequencies, combined with the latest research in many areas of complementary health. Forthcoming books include a work integrating feminism, depth psychology, and the body-mind principles of Wilhelm Reich; and a handbook that studies poisonous chemicals in the home, and presents safe, effective substitutes. Formerly published under the name “Nina Silver,” her writings in holistic health, psychology, feminism, sexuality, and social change have appeared in Natural Food & Farming, Natural Living Today, The New Internationalist, 333 334 The Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy
Nexus, Off Our Backs, Beiträge zum Werk von Wilhelm Reich (Contributions to the Work of Wilhelm Reich), and the anthologies Journeys of the Heart: Perspectives on Intimacy in America (Bruner-Mazel, 1999), An Introduction to Women’s Studies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), Women, Culture, and Society: Readings in Women’s Studies (Simon & Schuster, 1994), Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed Editions, 1993), and Closer To Home: Bisexuality and Feminism (Seal Press, 1992). Her volume of poetry, Birthing, was published in 1996 by Woman in the Moon Publications. Dr. Sylver has also been cited in Utne Reader (now called Utne magazine) and The New Yorker, and listeners have enjoyed her holistic health discussions on the radio. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Dr. Sylver is also a lifelong musician and award-winning songwriter. She looks forward to recording an album of original songs.
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Resources
and Clinic Locations Worldwide
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Clinics,
Doctors, and Medical Treatment Centers
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Most of these
facilities are equipped to handle people with serious problems such as
allergies, arthritis, cancers, cardiovascular disease, environmental
illness, hard-to-treat infections, and neurological disorders. They
administer sauna sessions, hyperthermia, or other heat treatments as
part of a supervised, systematic detoxification program. Resort spas
and a few medically-oriented spas are on pages 287 to 304.
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Aquavitae
Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy Centre 6501 Campeau Drive, Suite 100
Kanata, Ontario K2K 3E9 Canada
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contact: Nadine
Bellman, Physiotherapist phone: 613-592-2222 fax: 613-592-0284 website:
www.aquavitae.ca
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People with
arthritis, rheumatism, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, neurological
conditions, injuries, tendonitis, pre- and post- surgical conditions
such as joint replacements, and repetitive stress injuries are treated
with physiotherapy, exercise therapy, massage, and many forms of hydrotherapy.
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Austin Rejuvenation
Center 911 W. Anderson Lane #205 Austin, Texas 78757
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contact: Vladimir
Rizov, MD phone: 512-451-8149
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Detoxification
treatments include chelation with EDTA. DMSO, enzymes, homeopathy,
laetrile, oxygen, and vitamins are also used. Hyperthermia treatments
are in electric heater saunas to 120°F (48.9°C), with ozone added.
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Ayurvedic Institute
11311 Menual Boulevard NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87112
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contact: Pancha
Karma Department phone: 505-291-9698 fax: 505-294-7572 website:
www.ayurveda.com
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Therapies include
diet, lifestyle recommendations, synchronized oil massage, Shirodhara (a
mind-balancing treatment), and Pancha Karma, which balances body, mind
and spirit through the elimination of toxins so the body can return to
its normal healthy state. The institute offers herbal steam treatments.
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Battle Creek
Lifestyle Health Center 101 N. 20th Street
Battle Creek, Michigan 49015
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contact: Jeff Gates,
MD, and Bruce R. Hyde, MD phone: 888-255-3180 or 269-963-0368 fax:
269-963-3305 website: www.bclifestylecenter.com
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In this
descendent of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s spa, treatments include alpha
stimulation, herbs, massage, nutrition, physical therapy, sunlight
treatments, and hydrotherapy. Sauna therapy is given in one of Kellogg’s
original electric light baths.
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Black Hills Health
& Education Center PO Box 19 Hermosa, South Dakota 57744
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contact: Dick Nunez,
FT, SFT, CPT phone: 800-658-5433 or 605-255-4101 fax: 605-255-4687
website: www.bhhec.org
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People with
autoimmune disorders, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity
receive a 6-day non-medical program or a 13-day or 20-day medical
program. Modalities include exercise equipment, hot and cold contrast
treatments, hydrotherapy, and massage. The sauna uses steam.
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Celebration of
Health Center 122 Thurman Street Bluffton, Ohio 45817
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contact: Dr. L.
Terry Chappell, MD phone: 419-358-4627 fax: 419-358-1855 website:
www.healthcelebration.com
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People with
allergies, arthritis and joint pain, autism (in children), cardiovascular
problems, and yeast infections are treated with various healing
modalities including IV chelation, nutrition, and prolotherapy. The
sauna uses steam with ozone.
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Center for
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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North Charleston,
South Carolina 29420 contact: Allan D. Lieberman, MD phone: 843-572-1600
website: www.coem.com
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Specialties
include allergies and food sensitivities, children with learning
disabilities or other special needs, occupational and environmental
medicine (including chemical injury/sensitivity), preconception care,
and yeast problems. Treatments include chelation, nutrition, and detoxification.
The sauna uses dry heat.
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Clinque La Prairie
SA Medical & Revitalization Center
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Montreux,
Switzerland phone: 011+41+21+989 3311 fax: 011+41+21+989 3333 website:
www.laprairie.ch
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Medical services
include cardiology, dental care, dermatology, endocrinology, general
surgery, gynecology, neurology, opthalmology, plastic surgery, and
psychiatry. The staff beauticians, dermatologists, and massage
therapists administer hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage, massage, and
ozone. The facility has a dry sauna and Turkish bath.
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The Cole Center for
Healing/Cincinnati Hyperbarics
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11974 Lebanon Road,
Suite 228
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Cincinnati, Ohio
45241 contact: Theodore J. Cole, DO, NMD phone: 800-667-5395 (toll-free)
or 513-563-4321 fax: 513-563-3131 website: www.drhealth.net
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Modalities
include acupuncture, chelation, herbs, homeopathy, nutritional
therapy, all oxygen therapies, psychological modalities, and photoluminescence
(UV blood irradiation) to combat infections like HIV and hepatitis.
(Blood is drawn, subjected to UV light, and then returned to the
body.) The sauna cabinet uses steam with ozone.
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Comprehensive Health
Association 9910 Long Point Road Houston, Texas 77055
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contact: Robert
Battle, MD phone: 713-932-0552 fax: 713-932-0551 website: www.chamd.com
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People with
allergies, arthritis, autism, cancer, chemical sensitivities, chronic
fatigue, environmental illness, and other conditions are treated with
chelation (oral and IV), homeopathy, nutrition, and neural, oxidative
and pain therapies. The two saunas use steam with ozone, and FIR.
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Ealing Natural
Therapies 108 Westcott Crescent Hanwell, London W7 1PB England
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contact: Enrida
Kelly, Dip, ANP (Naturopathy) phone: 011+44+0208 933 4520 website:
www.natpath.co.uk
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Services include
ear acupuncture, herbs, homeopathy, iridology, metabolic typing,
mineral analysis, nutrition, and ozone cupping and insufflations. The
sauna uses steam with ozone.
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The Edelson Center
for Environmental & Preventive Medicine 3833 Roswell Road, Suite 110
Atlanta, Georgia 30342
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contact: Stephen
Edelson, MD phone: 404-841-0088 fax: 404-841-6416 website:
www.edelsoncenter.com
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People with
chronic diseases such as ALS, autism, cancer, chronic fatigue, lupus,
multiple chemical sensitivity, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s
are given chelation (oral and IV), nutrition, ozone therapy (including
injections), and photoluminescence (UV blood irradiation). The two
saunas use FIR and convection heat.
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Élan Vitál Medical
Centers and Spas 21 West Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
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contact: Abbas Qutab,
MD phone: 508-753-0006
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7 Whittier Place,
Suite 108
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Boston, Massachusetts 02114 phone: 617-227-6573 website:
www.spadocs.com
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Specialities are
women’s health, aging problems, and hormone regulation. An adrenal
stress index, food allergy profile, Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis, and
cardiovascular, parasite, and urine tests are given. Treatments include
Ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic, herbs, homeopathy, and nutrition.
Heat treatments consist of smooth, hot lava stones soaked in essential
oils and massaged onto the body.
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Environmental Health
Center 8345 Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 220 Dallas, Texas 75231
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contact: William J.
Rea, MD phone: 214-368-4132 fax: 214-691-8432 website: www.ehcd.com/chemsens.html
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This is the first
environmentally safe residential clinic constructed in the U.S., by the
award-winning Dr. Rea, with organic foods, safe water, and rooms
containing only natural, scent-free materials. The detoxification
program uses dry and steam saunas.
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Environmental Health
Center of Western New York 65 Wehrle Drive Buffalo, NY 14225-1021
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contact: Kalpana D.
Patel, MD phone: 716-833-2213
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Specialties
include adolescent, pediatric and geriatric medicine; allergies;
clinical immunology; environmental medicine; metabolic disorders; and
preventive medicine. Treatments include chelation and nutrition. The
sauna is Finnish.
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Fun Fit Studio
Noellenstrasse 15a, CH-9443 Widnau, Switzerland
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contact: Dorit
Boehme, Government approved massage therapist phone: 011+41+71+722 5250
fax: 011+41+71+722 5205 website: www.fun-fit.ch
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People with
allergies, back pain, cellulitis, headaches, and other conditions are
treated with acupuncture, massage, spine corrections, and the F-Scan and
Theraplex energy devices to kill microbes and impart restorative
frequencies to the body. There is a Finnish sauna and steam aroma
shower.
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Health Care for the
21st Century
875 Walnut Street, Suite 370 Cary, North Carolina 27511
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contact: Joan Amtoft-Nielsen,
MD, PhD phone: 919-467-5770 fax: 919-469-2971 website: www.drnielsen.net
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People with
hard-to-treat conditions, including arthritis, cancer, cardiac disease,
Cushing’s disease, digestive problems, mold, and yeast infection are
treated with many modalities including environmental medicine,
homeopathy, orthomolecular medicine, and nutrition. The sauna uses steam
with ozone.
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HealthMed 5501 Power
Inn Road, Suite 130 Sacramento, California 95820
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contact: David Root,
MD phone: 916-387-8252 fax: 916-387-6977 website: www.healthmeddetox.org
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People afflicted
by environmental illness, chemical exposure, alcoholism, and drug
abuse (of either prescription or street drugs, but not crack cocaine or
heroin) are given the Hubbard detox protocol. The all-tile sauna rooms
use dry heat.
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139 Fulton Street,
Suite 515
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New York, New York
10038 contact: Apryl McNeil, MD phone: 212-587-3994, 212-587-3998, or
212-587-3761 fax: 212-587-3760 website: www.healthmeddetox.org
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This facility was
created to administer the Hubbard detox protocol to people who worked at
Ground Zero, including police, firefighters, Emergency Medical
Technicians, and custodial staff at Stuyvesant High School (which became
an impromptu infirmary), and now experience neurological and pulmonary
disorders from the dangerous chemicals they absorbed. See HealthMed
listing above.
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3736 Mount Diablo
Boulevard, Suite 202
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Lafayette,
California 94549 contact: Wootie McAdams, ND phone: 415-925-1831
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People with
allergies, digestive disorders, fatigue, heavy metal and chemical
toxicity, immune dysfunction, muscular and skeletal pain, TMJ syndrome,
and other chronic illnesses are treated with cell therapy, herbs,
homeopathy, massage, neural therapy, orthomolecular nutrition, oxygen
therapies, and local and whole body hyperthermia. The saunas use steam
and FIR.
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East Northport, New
York 11731 contact: Christopher J. Fischer, ND phone: 631-757-3366 fax:
631-757-3385 website: www.webndny.com
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Services include
naturopathy, homeopathy, nutritional and herbal consultations, and
constitutional hydrotherapy. The sauna cabinet uses steam.
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Holos Center 2211
Corinth Avenue, #301 Los Angeles, California 90064
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contact: Nadine
Cutright, MBA, CtH phone: 310-345-8649 website: www.holoscenter.com
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Holos provides
information, education, services, and products that encourage clients
to be proactive in their own lives and make enjoyable, informed choices
about their health care. Modalities include biofeedback, hypnotherapy,
and cleansing protocols. The sauna is FIR.
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Integrated Medical
Specialists 115 Eagle Spring Drive, Suite A Stockbridge, Georgia 30281
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contact: Dr. T. R.
Shantha, MD, PhD, FACA phone: 770-474-4029 fax: 770-474-2038 website:
www.iptmd.com
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People with AIDS,
ALS, arthritis, cancer, chronic fatigue, cardiovascular disorders,
Crohn’s, diabetes, heavy metal and environmental poisoning,
hepatitis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis receive holistic and allopathic
care that includes acupuncture, chelation, herbs, nutritional
supplements, colonics, drugs, hormone replacement, Hyperbaric Oxygen
Therapy (HBOT), and Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). A FIR sauna is
used for hyperthermia.
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Johnson Medical
Associates 317 Dal-Rich Village Richardson, Texas 75080
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contact: Alfred R.
Johnson, DO phone: 972-479-0400 fax: 972-479-0400 website:
www.johnsonmedicalassociates.com
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Specialties
include allergy testing and desensitization, environmental and internal
medicine, and toxicology. Treatments include chelation, homeopathy,
nutrition, oxygen therapies, and intravenous and oral supplementation.
The saunas are dry.
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Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza GmbH
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Multidisziplinäre
REHA- und AHB Klinik
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Germany phone:
011+49+(0)36461-90 fax: 011+49+(0)36461-91890
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Specialities
include allergies, dermatology, cardiology, orthopedics, pediatrics,
sports, and environmental medicine. Modalities include phototherapy,
and electrotherapy, and mineral and mud baths. The saunas use both dry
heat and steam.
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Longevity Institute
Indiana
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9292 North Meridian
Street, Suite 300
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Indianapolis,
Indiana 46260 contact: Arthur Sumrall, MD phone: 317-574-1677 fax:
317-574-1688 website: www.longevity-inst.com
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People with
chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and heavy metal toxicity receive
electrodermal screening, chelation (oral and IV), herbs, homeopathy,
live cell analysis, nutrition, oxygen therapies, and photoluminescence
(UV blood irradiation). The dry heat sauna capsule dispenses
aromatherapy and vibrating massage. The low-EMF, FIR sauna cabinet is
used for intensive detox.
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Magaziner Center for
Wellness
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Cherry Hill, New
Jersey 08003 contact: Alan Magaziner, MD phone: 856-424-8222 fax:
856-424-2599 website: www.drmagaziner.com
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People with
allergies, arthritis, autism, ADD, cancer, cardiovascular disease,
chronic fatigue, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and heavy metal toxicity are
treated with chelation (oral, IV, rectal), herbs, homeopathy, and nutrition.
The sauna uses FIR.
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