Matsesta is a micro district of the Khostinsky district of Sochi. The Matsesta River flows through the territory, it flows into the Black Sea. The microdistrict is divided into three parts: Middle, New, Old Matsesta. The middle one is most often called the Matsesta Valley. Matsesta offers not only a comfortable stay, treatment with mineral waters, mud is considered perhaps the trump card of the resort. Thousands of visitors annually come here from all over Russia to relax and restore their health.
Hosta, Matsesta. Treatment
Old Matsesta is famous for its balneological complex "Matsesta", in the center is the Bath Building, where tourists and residents of Sochi come for medical procedures.
New Matsesta is conventionally considered the center of the microdistrict, has a small area. An interesting attraction is the Sochi Aquarium.
Middle Matsesta (Matsesta Valley) is located on a gentle mountain slope, the microdistrict got its name because of the name of the local sanatorium “Matsesta Valley”. This place is a huge forest park on the banks of the Matsesta River. For a picnic here are equipped with many convenient areas with barbecue facilities, wooden houses for relaxation, everywhere there are figures carved from wood. Pride of the Matsesta Valley - rare plants listed in the Red Book. The forest is formed by pine, cypress, beech, alder, Himalayan cedar, hazel, cornel, laurel cherry, in the spring snowdrops bloom here.
Matsesta - Sochi balneological complex
Matsesta resort is very popular among residents and guests of Sochi, the treatment here is carried out comprehensively, using mineral waters and mud. The complex was opened at the beginning of the 20th century in the valley of the Agura and Khosta rivers. A large hydrogen sulfide deposit was developed here with access to the surface. Hydrogen sulfide water has become a major healing factor. Patients come all year round to restore health in the sanatorium. Matsesta with treatment not only hydrogen sulfide baths, but also iodine-bromine, with silt mud, is known far beyond the region. Iodine-bromine natural water is delivered from the Kudepsta mineral spring. Silt mud of hydrogen sulfide baths quickly restores the body after protracted, debilitating diseases, various types of stress, stress.
What is useful hydrogen sulfide?
The balneo-physiotherapeutic complex "Matsesta", the treatment of which is available to many residents of Russia, is the largest in our country. Matsesta hospitals effectively use hydrogen sulfide chloride-sodium mineral water. Its sources in this area have a very different concentration, ranging from 60 mg / l to 420 mg / l, mineralization reaches 30 g / l. Matsesta mineral water contains in its composition more than twenty very different chemical compounds and elements.

The main component in the treatment is hydrogen sulfide. It plays an important role in many reactions that occur in the body. When exposed to hydrogen sulfide, redness of the skin occurs, blood vessels expand, blood circulation accelerates, and the number of functioning capillaries increases. Matsesta baths positively affect blood circulation, musculoskeletal system, nervous system, skin condition. Shown procedures for gynecological diseases, neuroendocrine disorders, ENT diseases. With many ailments, Matsesta comes to the rescue. Treatment with the initial forms of atherosclerosis, obliterating arteritis, plexitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis gives amazing results. Hydrogen sulfide baths are also indicated for rheumatic lesions of the joints, with secondary infertility, seborrhea, prostatitis, eczema. Helps hydrogen sulfide to cope with postoperative, post-burn, keloid scars.
Treatment methods
Methods of treatment with hydrogen sulfide baths can be very different. Typically, eight to twelve treatments are determined per course. Often, treatment combines bathing with other Matsesta treatments. This can be chamber baths for legs and hands, a variety of irrigation, inhalation, rising shower, microclysters. Mineral water for common hydrogen sulfide baths is supplied from 35 to 37 degrees. For local Matsesta procedures, water is used, the temperature of which can be from 28 to 41 degrees. Each standard procedure does not exceed fifteen minutes.
Sochi, Matsesta. Treatment with iodine-bromine baths
Indications for use:
- Atherosclerosis.
- Diseases of the cardiovascular system.
- Hypertonic disease.
- Neurosis of the heart.
- Rheumatism (inactive form).
- Diseases of the nervous system: subacute, chronic radiculitis, not pronounced neurosis, asthenic state, neurasthenic reactions, consequences of injuries and injuries of the nervous system.
- Diseases of the endocrine glands.
- Diabetes (mild form).
- Thyroid disease.
- Gout.
- Disorders of fat metabolism.
- Polyarthritis, arthritis.
- Diseases of the spine (non-tuberculous etiology).
- Skin diseases.
- Gynecological diseases.
What are the contraindications?
Before starting a course of iodine-bromine baths, carefully study the existing contraindications, these include:
- Inflammatory processes, infectious diseases in acute form.
- Tuberculosis.
- Leukemia.
- Circulatory disorders (second degree).
- Pyelitis, neurosis, neuritis.
- Mental illness, epilepsy.
- Ovarian cyst, large fibroma.
- Pregnancy.
- Fungal skin diseases (infectious).
The cost of treatment, accommodation
In getting rid of many diseases, any (of many available at this resort) sanatorium (Matsesta) helps. Treatment, the cost of which is included in the total price of the ticket, is available to many visitors to the Black Sea resort. The course “General Therapeutic + Matsesta” includes: accommodation, meals "buffet" (3 meals a day), spa treatment, taking Matsesta mineral waters, treatment according to indications in a local hydropathic center, cultural events, beach. The cost of the permit can be approximately calculated at the rates below, which take place this year in one of the sanatoriums of the complex - Metallurg.
The cost of living per day (in rubles per room)type of number | April | May | June | July- September | October | November | December |
1st category 1 local | 2900 | 3300 | 3900 | 4400 | 3300 | 2900 | 2500 |
1st category Double | 4400 | 5000 | 5500 | 6100 | 5000 | 4400 | 3900 |
Studio 2 rooms Double | 7300 | 8100 | 8200 | 8300 | 8100 | 7200 | 6400 |
Suite 2 rooms Double | 8100 | 9200 | 10 100 | 11,000 | 9200 | 8100 | 7000 |
Radon baths
For more than seventy years, radon baths have been used for treatment. Artificial radon waters were obtained in laboratory conditions, based on radium chloride and bromide salts. There are no fundamental differences between artificial and natural radon waters; they contain identical isotopes of radium.
Radon is a gas that is a decay product of radium. Radon therapy is most often called alpha-therapy because of the resulting alpha particles. Their radiation has a very gentle effect on the skin, without causing burns, has a painkiller effect. Radiation doses are extremely minimal. For example: fifteen radon baths are equal to the irradiation area, four hundred times smaller than one chest x-ray procedure. A liquid solution of radium is stored in pressure vessels. Specialists of the Matsesta laboratory prepare the necessary concentrations of radon water, and then medicinal baths are prepared from it.
The Matsesta complex is famous throughout the country. The treatment (the cost of which is available to many visitors to the Black Sea resort) using radon, offered here, is effective for many diseases.
Radon baths - indications for treatment
- Neurotic reactions, neurosis.
- Plexitis, neuritis, radiculitis, neuromyositis, neuralgia, ganglionitis.
- Polyarthritis, exchange arthritis, rheumatoid, infectious, rheumatic, in the subacute and chronic stages.
- Hypertension without vascular crises of the I-II stage.
- Thyroid disease.
- Female genital diseases: inflammatory processes, menopausal bleeding.
Contraindications are malignant neoplasms, tuberculosis, blood diseases, pregnancy, severe exhaustion.
Have you already decided to visit the sanatorium "Matsesta"? The treatment, reviews of which are left by patients who have already been here, will bring undeniable benefits to your body. In the Book of Reviews of BC “Matsesta” you can read hundreds of warm words of gratitude received both from ordinary visitors and from dignitaries, pop stars and cinema. Patients taking procedures here note the diligence and hospitality of the staff, the effectiveness of the treatment. And they claim that they felt much better after the course. The guests of the resort were at one time Bedros Kirkorov, Leonid Kanevsky, Alexander Baluev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. All patients thank the staff and wish everyone good health.
It is the Matsesta balneological complex that makes it possible not only to relax under the rays of the warm southern sun, but also to restore health, to receive a charge of vivacity and energy for a long time.