Schiele footbaths - Naturheilzentrum Huettmann

"Keep the head cool, the feet warm - that makes the best doctor poor" is an old saying. But when we are ill, rising temperatures help, whether in the form of fever or foot bath water."
Kneipp versus Schiele

What kind of bath causes all this? It is a special means of raising the temperature in the form of a foot bath, developed in the thirties by the Hamburg businessman Fritz Schiele (1901-1990) in his own spa.
In Kneipp rising temperature foot baths as well as Schlenz baths, the water temperature is increased by adding hot water or opening a hotter water supply intermittently at five-minute intervals.
That is found to be unpleasant for some, even sometimes for the heart.
In addition, through standing on the bottom of the bath the foot soles are hardly affected by the increasing heat and the feet become cold again after few hours.

Unlike the Schiele foot bath: the water is slowly and gradually heated (half a degree per minute) from below, by means of an electrically heated plate in the bottom of a special pan.
In this way the rising heat goes directly to the sole of the foot. Their capillaries and arterioles (small arteries) expand.
As a result all other blood vessels dilate up to the head of the body.
Two-thirds of the total blood flow down, first to the feet, then into the outer body skin.

The Schiele foot bath – when, how and for whom?

High blood pressure can fall and be normalized at a lower level.
The internal organs (such as brain, stomach, intestine, liver and spleen) are relaxed, especially the heart, which then participates again more strong in circulating the blood. The coronary vessels and skin tissue also dilate.
The blood circulation on which everything depends, improves.
Of course, typically this takes at least two months, bathing five times per week.
Within 20 minutes, the bath water temperature rises from 35° to 45° C. Anyone who does not tolerate this begins at a lower temperature and shortens the duration of the bath.
The maximum temperature of 45° C, however, remains desirable. Special bath supplements are recommended.  

As passive training for the blood circulation the Schiele foot bath is indicated for a variety of illnesses, e.g. in:

-Heart, circulation, blood pressure and circulatory disorders, atherosclerosis
-Headaches, migraines
-Varicose veins
-All colds, acne, psoriasis, eczema
-Menstrual disorders, osteoporosis, arthritis, arthrosis
-M.Bechterew, kidney and prostate conditions, asthma, sciatica
-Paralysis, neuralgia,
-Metabolic disorders, chronic cold feet
-Age complaints and insomnia