Thermal Medicine is an approach to healing that uses different types of heat therapy such as through soaks, steams, vapors and mud applications. Balneotherapy is a type of thermal medicine and multicultural ancient healing practice that continues to have modern popularity in regions that have hot mineral water.
Hot mineral water is created when cold water passes close to underground lava flows called magma. The varying degrees of heat that the magma emits cause different temperatures of hot mineral water. Mineral content depends on the type of earth that the water encounters during its flow. Mineral spas are created when mineral water becomes accessible by spring or well.
Mineral water used therapeutically promotes health and well-being in many fascinating ways. Soaking in hot baths, steaming in saunas, and applying mineral mud packs have all been researched and proven to be beneficial to treat many conditions. This page is to give reviews of researched benefits of Balneotherapy and other thermal medicine applications.
Immunity
Heat is well known as a bodily defense through the activation of temperature in response to illness. As many know, often the first stages of a viral disease will start with a fever that shows the immune system is activated in response to a viral invader. What we know is that some viruses are encapsulated like the coronaviruses that covid-19 comes from. Thrive in cold temperatures but go extinct in hot temperatures. External application of heat through sauna, hot bath, poultices, and inhalation may help fight viruses. Many people already heed this advice and add a humidifier at the bedside or use a steamy bathroom to help with respiratory symptoms of congestion. Advice that may help eradicate the viruses themselves. Especially when balneotherapy is knowingly applied in this way and often includes essential oils and deep immersions in heat therapy.
Additionally, balneotherapy may help reduce longer-term low-grade inflammation as related to rheumatic conditions. Certain applications of heat therapy with mineral water and mud application have shown to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines while also increasing IGF-1 an anti-inflammatory growth factor. Heat applications have effects on other biomarkers of bodily inflammation. Research has shown that C-reactive proteins that are indicative of rising inflammation are reduced with balneotherapy treatment, as well.
There are many relaxing ways to appreciate water. We like to recognize the importance of giving thanks for such abundance of natural sourced mineral water. Though water flows freely from earth and often in undeveloped areas www.westandfofthetrees.com supports water conservation efforts.
