therap-, -therapeutic[s], -therapeutically, -therapy, -therapies, -therapist +

1. Medical treatment of a disease with baths or medicinal springs.
2. Immersion of part or all of the body in a mineral water bath as a form of therapy.
3. The treatment of diseases, injuries, and other physical ailments with baths and bathing; especially, in natural mineral waters.

Balneotherapy involves the treatment of diseases by bathing. It may involve hot or cold water, massage via moving water, relaxation or stimulation. Many mineral waters at spas are rich in particular minerals (silica, sulfur, selenium, radium) which can be absorbed via the skin.

The term balneotherapy has gradually come to be applied to everything relating to health-spa treatment, including the drinking of waters and the use of hot baths and natural vapor baths, as well as of the various kinds of mud and sand used for hot applications.

1. One who uses books as a means of treating certain kinds of illnesses.
2. A therapist who utilizes reading as part of his/her treatment.

Treatment with bile or bile salts.

Radiotherapy in which the source of irradiation is placed close to the surface of the body or within a body cavity; e.g., application of radium to the cervix.

An obsolete treatment of disease with a combination of drugs and serum.

One who specializes in the treatment of ailments with chemical substances.

1. The treatment of disease, especially of parasitic infections or cancer, by means of chemical substances which act selectively on micro-organisms or malignant tissue.
2. Treatment of disease by means of chemical substances or drugs; usually used in reference to neoplastic disease (a new and abnormal formation of tissue; such as, a tumor or other growth). Also known as, pharmacotherapy.
3. The treatment of a disease with chemicals or drugs; used especially in reference to the treatment of cancer with chemicals.

Treatment of disease with colored light.

1. Treatments of diseases that work in harmony with the body’s natural time rhythms, such as when patients are given drugs at the optimum time in their day cycle of cell growth.
2. Coordinating biological rhythms (chronobiology) with medical treatment includes a person’s biological rhythms in determining the timing and sometimes the amount of medication to optimize a drug’s desired effects and minimize the undesired ones.

Treatment of disease by the administration of gold salts; also, aurotherapy.

Treatment of disease by removal of the patient to a region having a climate more favorable for recovery.

Treatment of an illness with the use of cold temperatures.

1. The use of cold in the treatment of disease.
2. Medical treatment that involves cooling the body, especially by applying ice packs.

Transscleral freezing of the ciliary body in the treatment of glaucoma.

Treatment of skin diseases.