Dead Sea mud is famous all over the world. What exactly are they useful for? Why are they brought from Israel to other countries, and people are willing to pay a lot of money for them?
Therapeutic mud is not the same in composition. They are understood as a whole complex of substances formed in natural conditions during geological processes over a long period of time. In science, they are referred to by the term "peloids". They are silty, peaty and hilly.
Dead Sea mud - silt. They form only at the bottom of lakes and seas. For thousands of years, the remains of plants, soil, and waste products of bacteria gradually settled to the bottom of the Dead Sea. These substances, in combination with water, minerals and s alts, underwent chemical changes, as a result of which various acids, gases and antibiotic-like substances were produced. It is impossible to recreate the Dead Sea mud in the laboratory.
This mud consists of a crystalline skeleton (calcium and magnesium s alts, silicon compounds in the form of grains of sand and clay particles, feldspar, kaolinite, quartz, mica), a colloidal phase (iron sulfide dissolved in water) andorganic substances (acids, antibiotic-like substances and other waste products of bacteria).
In what cases are these muds used? After all, they do not treat all diseases, but only certain ones. First of all, Dead Sea mud is used for the face, treatment of skin diseases. Also, this remedy is indispensable for diseases of the joints and the musculoskeletal system (arthritis, polyarthritis, osteitis, osteochondrosis, myositis, bursitis). Muds are effective for diseases of the peripheral nervous system (radiculitis, neuritis, polyneuritis) and the central nervous system (meningitis, encephalitis, poliomyelitis); diseases of the ear, nose and throat (sinusitis, tonsillitis, frontal sinusitis, otitis media, rhinitis). Treatment should be carried out during the period of remission or after the completion of the acute process.
Dead Sea mud is used in active and passive procedures. The former act quickly, activate the hidden reserves of the body and are recommended for generally he althy people. Last up to 30 minutes at temperatures up to 42 degrees. Passive procedures are actually a sparing regimen. But they can be done more often.
There are a number of contraindications for the use of mud. These cases include the stages of exacerbation of any diseases, the presence of benign formations (myomas, fibromas, cysts, adenofibromas) in the area of impact or malignant in any area. It is also forbidden to treat with mud after suffering blood diseases, with hypertension, circulatory failure, atherosclerosis, after heart attacks and strokes, with problems withthyroid gland, the most severe forms of diabetes, diseases of the urinary tract, kidneys, jaundice of any kind, cirrhosis of the liver. Treatment with Dead Sea mud is not carried out with mental illness (neurosis, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy), during pregnancy. People over the age of 65 can only have local procedures.
