The Dead Sea mud is world famous. And 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?
The healing mud is not the same in composition. They mean a whole complex of substances formed in natural conditions during geological processes over a long period of time. In science are designated by the term "peloids". They are silt, peat and hills.
The Dead Sea mud is silt. They are formed only at the bottom of lakes and seas. For thousands of years, the remains of plants, soil, and bacteria’s waste products have gradually settled to the bottom of the Dead Sea. These substances in combination with water, minerals and salts 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.
Such dirt consists of a crystalline skeleton (calcium and magnesium salts, silicon compounds in the form of grains of sand and clay particles,
feldspar, kaolinite, quartz, and mica), the colloidal phase (iron sulfide dissolved in water), and organic substances (acids, antibiotic-like substances, and others bacteria waste products).
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 face, skin diseases treatment. Also, this tool is indispensable for diseases of the joints and 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 remission or after the completion of the acute process.
Dead Sea mud is used in active and passive procedures. The former act quickly, activate hidden reserves of the body and are recommended in general to healthy people. Lasts up to 30 minutes at temperatures up to 42 degrees. Passive procedures are actually a gentle mode. But they can be carried out more often.
There are a number of contraindications for the use of mud. These cases include the stage of exacerbation of any disease, the presence of benign formations (myoim, fibroma, cysts, adenofibroma) in the area of influence or malignant in any area. It is also forbidden to treat with mud after the transfer of blood diseases, with hypertension, circulatory failure, atherosclerosis, after heart attacks and strokes, with problems with the thyroid gland, the most severe forms of diabetes, diseases of the urinary tract, kidneys, jaundice of any kind, cirrhosis of the liver. Mud treatment of the Dead Sea is not carried out with mental illness (neurosis, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy), during pregnancy. People over the age of 65 can only have local procedures.