Hydrotherapy and Balneotherapy

Treatments built on water, mineral springs, seawater or a shore climate as the primary therapeutic agent, delivered by bathing, irrigation or relocation to a favorable setting rather than by a manual technique, a compounded remedy or an energy claim. This includes the core water-cure tradition and its mineral-spring variants (hydropathy, hydrotherapy, balneotherapy, crenotherapy), seawater and climate-based treatment (thalassotherapy, climatotherapy), bowel-irrigation techniques delivered by water (colon hydrotherapy, colonic irrigation, colon cleansing), and the galvanic bath, which combines water immersion with a mild electrical current but remains a bath in its delivery and its own historical classification alongside balneotherapy. A treatment whose defining agent is electricity, magnetism or light on its own, with no water or mineral-spring delivery, is grouped instead under energy and vibrational therapies.