Mineral Therapy

Mineral, or Mud therapy is defined as "hyperthermal" or "hypothermalized mud", derived from the mixing of a solid component (organic and/or inorganic clay) with mineral water (salso-bromo-iodic).

• Mud consists of 53% clay, 36% minerals, 7% organic substances and 4% water.
• Mineral water, as well as temperature & chemical components influence the development of the maturing process of typical microflora.

Thanks to its local effects it has wide range in alternative medecine. Depending on the case it can be applied as partial body wrapping, partial bath and full bath.

Local Effects

• Increase pulse rate
• Increase body temperature
• Improve vascularization
• Stimulate metabolic exchange in cartilage
• Local antiinflamatory
• Resolvent
• Analgesic
• Muscle relaxing and smoothing
• Revitalizing action
• Stimulate bone cell activity in the joints
• Cell trophism
• Production of synovial fuid
• Improve reactivity of body itself against disease-causing agents

Mud treatments bring relief to arthrosis, spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, dysmetabolic reumatism, periarthritis, tendonitis, tensionovitis, bursitis, fibrositis, some post-traumatic muscular hypotonia, hypotrophy and muscular rigidity.

Mineral-enriched mud helps people who are suffering from psoriasis, eczema, acne and variety of other skin ailments.

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