Treatment with muds (peloids) is a very common form of procedures in medicine that allows you to get rid of a whole range of chronic diseases, acting as an adjunct to drug therapy. Let's consider, than mud baths are useful, and what types of curative mud exist.
Types of mud baths
By origin, peloids are classified as follows:
- Black sulphide - formed by the silt of saline reservoirs. Organic substances contain little, but are rich in salts, depending on the composition of which the baths are sodium-calcium, sulfate-chloride, etc. Contain useful for the body lipoproteins.
- Peat - are formed in marshes by decomposition of peat by not less than 40%. Contain humic substances that cause their biological activity, as well as cations of ammonium, chlorine anions, a wide range of trace elements.
- Sapropelenic - they have a wide range of colors, are formed in water bodies with standing water, are rich in microelements, and have very mild action on the body.
Mud baths, indications and contraindications to the adoption of which will be discussed below, primarily have a warming effect. Such procedures help to relieve pain, give a resolving, anti-inflammatory effect, increase the general tone of the body, normalize the work of the hormonal system. At home, mud baths can be replaced with applications that involve the effect of peloids only on certain parts of the body.
Indications for peloidotherapy
Mud baths are especially effective in the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system:
- polyarthritis;
- rheumatism ;
- residual trauma.
A good effect of treatment with peloids is given with osteomyelitis , gynecological diseases (including infertility), adhesions, diseases of the urino-genital organs in men.
Muds have a general effect on the body and affect the nervous system, because the procedures are shown with radiculitis, neuritis, polyneuritis.
Contraindications of mud baths
It should be noted that peloidotherapy should be prescribed only by a doctor: he will prescribe a suitable schedule of procedures, tell you how to take mud baths correctly and make sure that they do not harm you.
Treatment with peloids can not be performed with atrial fibrillation, the presence of tumors, any bleeding, tuberculosis, angina pectoris, or physical exhaustion of the body. Mud baths, contra-indications of which concern also pregnant women and patients with high body temperature, are conducted only at the stage of remission, but during an exacerbation such procedures are unacceptable.