Benefits of medicinal mud for our health
The therapeutic mud contains inorganic and organic substances, hormones, enzymes, vitamins, antibiotics, thanks to them it is actively used as a basis for the manufacture of medicines, and as an independent tool. The therapeutic effect on the body is provided by nitrogen, hydrocarbon, oxides (copper, aluminum, cobalt, iron), hydrogen sulphide, and amino acids that are part of the therapeutic mud. The therapeutic mud also has a bactericidal effect.
During local and general procedures with healing mud, the temperature of the treated tissues increases, this stimulates the work of metabolic processes, promotes resorption of adhesions and rapid healing of wounds, improves blood circulation. In the curative mud there are microorganisms, in one gram of mud there are up to one billion. As soon as these organisms get on the skin, they immediately begin to destroy harmful microbes from its surface.
Therapeutic mud is the strongest factor, capable to influence the weakly current inflammatory processes occurring in our body. Scientists have proved that mud therapy can raise weakened immunity, favorably affects hormonal metabolism and the state of the human nervous system.
Therapeutic mud has recently found its application in cosmetology. Today, most of the beauty salons can offer their customers mud masks, mud wraps, simply applying application of healing mud. Such procedures are complemented by massage, and dirt can be combined with clay, algae and salts. All this in combination will contribute to complete muscle relaxation, improve blood circulation, and this will certainly favorably affect the skin condition, increasing its elasticity, solve the problem of excessive weight.
Who is shown the therapeutic mud
Indications for the appointment of mud therapy are: rheumatism, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, rheumatoid polyarthritis, diseases of the urinary system in the male half, infectious polyarthritis, gynecological diseases, including infertility. Dystrophic polyarthritis, diseases of the nose, throat, eyes, ear. Infectious and rheumatic neuritis, skin diseases.
Therapeutic mud is also used for rehabilitation after various injuries of the joints, peripheral nervous system, after poisoning. Children who have suffered poliomyelitis also get mud treatment.
Contraindications for mud treatment
Pregnant if a person has an active stage of tuberculosis, a person has a critical depletion of the body and a decline in strength, serious heart disease - arrhythmia, angina. The presence of bleeding, elevated body temperature are also contraindications.
Types of mud and where to take it
Types of mud - peat, silt, coniferous and sapropel.
Silt mud is formed in saline reservoirs and contains hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide and methane, because of these constituents it is characterized by a specific odor, reminiscent of the smell of a rotten egg. Silt mud is usually saturated black, consisting of half of water and a small amount of organic matter. Evpatoria, Odessa, Saki, Lake Shira, Pyatigorsk are rich for silt mud. However, the Dead Sea is considered the most popular mud mud treatment. Silt mud has a high mineral content - one liter contains more than 300 grams of useful solutes.
Peat mud is extracted in the swamp. It is there that it originates due to the decomposition of plants with the participation of microorganisms and without air entry. Such mud is dark brown color, there is a sufficient content of organic substances, from the level of decomposition of plant substances, useful properties will be formed.
Peat mud is used in the Baltic resorts (Kemeri, Maiori), Western Ukraine (Morshin).
Sapropelic mud - bottom sediments of reservoirs exclusively with fresh water. It is formed on the basis of microscopic animals and plants and silt of organic origin. It has a gray-brown color, does not contain hydrogen sulphide, a rather liquid consistency (water up to 90 percent). It is used in Western Siberia.
Sopochnaya mud has a deep origin, occurs in places of gas and oil fields. Such mud is obtained on the surface of mud volcanoes. It consists of the following trace elements - iodine, boron, zinc, bromine, copper. All these substances have an anti-inflammatory and sedative effect, which makes it possible to use it for weakened patients. Mud mud is mined in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, on the Taman Peninsula and Southern Sakhalin.
At present, it is not necessary to go to an expensive resort to check the therapeutic properties of mud. Today, various types of healing mud are sold in beauty shops or pharmacies, where they can be easily bought. Dirt and its source are selected from the goal pursued by you. After purchasing the healing mud, we arrange our own spa at home.