A positive effect of mineral water on the human body knew even doctors of ancient Greece. They used sea bathing, sea and sulfur baths for treatment and prevention of diseases. Modern Balneotherapy originated in the late 18th - early 19th centuries.
The overall impact on the human body balneotherapy
Balneotherapy - a set of methods of treatment and prevention of diseases, as well as the recovery of the organism after diseases natural and artificially prepared mineral water.
Basic techniques of balneotherapy is to apply mineral water externally in the form baths, spinal traction in the mineral water, bathing and swimming in the thermal pool. Mineral waters are also used inside: drink mineral water, irrigation of the intestines, stomach wash, drip enema.
The impact on the human body of mineral water of different temperatures, different concentrations of chemicals, has a significant influence thermoregulation processes, and hence the metabolism
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, The violation of which is the basis of all diseases. Significant influence mineral water have on the autonomic nervous system that innervate the smooth muscles of internal organs and blood vessels, as well as the central nervous system (CNS). No less sensitive to the effects of this endocrine system.
The most effective method of balneotherapy in diseases that are at the stage of functional disorders, ie at the beginning of the pathological process.
Mineral baths are removed from the water surface layers of the skin, which contributes to a change in the functional state of the skin receptors. Thus mineral baths with different chemical composition have different effects on the organism, since the gaseous substance (carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) penetrate through the skin, lungs, and mucous membranes of the digestive system tissue cells by affecting the blood vessels, internal organs and nervous system.
What balneological reaction
The water therapy response - is the body's response to the use of balneotherapy. The water therapy reaction can occur:
- physiological changes in the condition of the body;
- minor pathological changes in the condition of the body that are not much higher than normal and are short-lived;
- pronounced pathological changes that say about the failure of the physiological mechanisms of protection, that is, on the development of acute illness; it says are too high intensity exposure and requires its reduction or complete cessation treatments.
Today, the most commonly used sulfide, carbon dioxide, radon, nitrogen thermal silica, sodium chloride, iodine, bromine and arsenic mineral waters. Each of these waters have their unique effects on the human body.
Key operating factors of certain types of mineral water
Sulfide waters contain sulfides that penetrate mainly through the skin (free hydrogen sulfide and hydrosulfide ions) and in small quantities through the respiratory tract. Hydrogen sulfide is easily activated in the body and is involved in redox reactions mainly oxidized forms of proteins and enzymes. It increases the biological activity of proteins, enzymes, hormones and protein nature, which leads to increased energy in the cells of tissues, particularly in cells of the heart muscle (myocardium).
When using carbon dioxide, carbonic water penetrates through the skin, respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract into the blood, contributing to the improvement thereto carbon dioxide, which causes excitation of CNS and accelerate gas exchange in the tissues.
Chlorine-sodium waters have a regulating effect on the functional state of the central nervous system, causing the restructuring of the immune system
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Alter metabolism
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. Many chlorine-sodium waters contain ions of iodine and bromine that recovers moderately impaired function of the thyroid gland
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and pituitary-adrenal system.
Indications and contraindications
Indications for use of balneotherapy are minor illnesses of the cardiovascular system, the musculoskeletal system of different origin, nervous system, digestive system, chronic inflammatory gynecological diseases, functional ovarian failure, endocrine diseases, diseases of the kidney and urinary tract, many skin diseases, professional toxic heavy metals (mercury, lead and other).
Balneotherapy is contraindicated in any acute illness, exacerbation of chronic diseases, as well as in severe decompensated (body can not cope, so it can not compensate for the impaired function) diseases of any bodies.
Galina Romanenko
