The history of mud treatment has a centuries-old development. Since ancient times, ancient physicians prescribed patients procedures with the use of mud. In Ancient Egypt clay substances of the Nile also served to spread the body for medicinal purposes. In Greece and Rome, mineral deposits of water bodies were also used in therapy.
The healing properties of mud baths were used by the peoples of Ancient China and India. In our country, mud rupture came in the 19th century. It was then that clinics in the Crimea and the Caucasus became very popular resorts, where people from all over the country gathered for healing.
Gryazerapiya helps to strengthen a healthy body, prevent the emergence and development of various diseases. Muds are different, but they also have many common properties. They are distinguished by the absence of heat exchange, high heat capacity, heat-retaining properties, colloidal properties. Muds have a chemical effect on the body, affecting the skin chemo- and thermoreceptors.
Chemical elements of mud penetrate the skin and stimulate connective tissues, the system of endocrine glands, enhance metabolic processes. They also increase the supply of blood to the skin.
The action of mud baths has analgesic, absorbing, desensitizing properties. Mud treatment enhances regeneration processes.
Mud affects the body in different ways: it is mechanical, thermal, biological, and chemical.
The thermal effect of mud on the body differs from water thermal procedures in several parameters. If the water in the bath slightly exceeds 40 degrees Celsius, then it is already considered hot, and for a person it is uncomfortable. But mud baths with a temperature of up to 48 degrees are carried freely. With this procedure, the body temperature rises, and therefore changes occur in the vital processes of the human body.
The impact of the mechanical plan assumes a massive effect of mud elements. Especially it is felt by capillary vessels. They drive blood into larger vessels, and as a result, the cardiovascular system improves its performance.
With regard to the chemical effects of mud mud, when it is covered with skin and other organs from the mud, useful gases are actively absorbed in the mud. This determines their therapeutic properties.
In the therapeutic mud contains a substance that equates its properties with the hormones secreted by the sex glands. Therefore, mud therapy is used to normalize sexual desire and sexual life. This is the biological effect of dirt on the body.
When the body begins to contact the therapeutic mud masses, electric currents of currents of different directivity arise. Currents, penetrating the body through the skin, nourish them with ions of iodine, bromine, sodium, calcium. And from the body currents remove toxic substances: mercury, arsenic, lead, etc.
Healing mud masses are the habitat of microorganisms, which secrete antibiotics that can remove inflammatory foci.
The properties of mud baths have a positive effect on the body as a whole. The effect of baths with mud is closely related to the temperature regime. The dissolving effect has a bath, with a temperature of up to 44 degrees, a calming and regulating state of the central nervous system - with a temperature of up to 37 degrees. Sapropel mud baths facilitate the state of the disease with osteoporosis. The course of mud treatment - 12-18 procedures, which should last up to half an hour.
Favorably affect the mud local baths for the hands or feet. And for such procedures often use a dry therapeutic mud mass. To prepare a bath, a sachet of mud should be diluted with water, and all together warmed to a temperature not exceeding 41 degrees Celsius. The time of such a session is 20 minutes, with the hands or feet immersed in the healing mass, it is necessary to triturate with additional mud, which remains in the package.