As the name suggests, this mode of treatment involves only the hips and the abdominal region below the navel. The tub is filled with water in such a way that it covers the hips and reaches up to the navel when the patient sits in it. Hot or cold hip bath should be used accordingly.

Cold bath relieves constipation, indigestion, obesity and helps the eliminative organs to function properly. It is also helpful in uterine problems like irregular menstruation, chronic uterine infections, pelvic inflammation, piles, seminal weakness, impotency, sterility, dilation of the stomach and colon, diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhage of the bladder and so on.

A hot hip bath helps to relieve painful menstruation, pain in the pelvic organs, painful urination, inflamed rectum or bladder and painful piles. It also benefits enlarged prostatic gland, painful contractions or spasm of the bladder, sciatica, neuralgia of the ovaries and bladder.

Duration- 10 min