A REVIEW ON THE HAMMAM: A REGIMEN FROM ASCLEPIONS

Abstract

The bathing was almost universally followed practice in antiquity. It was of religious, cultural as well as therapeutic values. Before scientific medicine, Asclepions were the healing temples, which were always built near a river or spring and worked as today's clinic and hospitals, where water was used for therapeutic purposes. Hippocrates also described the different kinds of water as well as the therapeutic property of bathing. In the Roman and Arabic periods, Hammam was too popular and it was social practice. The bathing Houses were highly sophisticated building. The physicians of medieval age also considered hammam as one of the important resigns in the art of healing. They were described as the different kind of Hammam and their therapeutic importance.