The Dead Sea mud is the best natural medicine

The Dead Sea muds are famous all over the world. 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?

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, the term "peloids" is used. They are silt, peat and opaque. 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 the products of the vital activity of bacteria gradually settled on the bottom of the Dead Sea. These substances in combination with water, minerals and salts underwent chemical changes, which resulted in the production of various acids, gases and antibiotic-like substances. It is impossible to recreate the Dead Sea mud in the laboratory.

Such mud consists of a crystalline skeleton (calcium and magnesium salts, silicon compounds in the form of grains of sand and clay, feldspar, kaolinite, quartz, mica), a colloidal phase (dissolved in water sulphurous iron) and organic substances (acids, antibiotic-like substances and others Products of the life of bacteria).

In what cases are these muds used? After all, they treat not 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 musculoskeletal system (arthritis, polyarthritis, ostitis, osteochondrosis, myositis, bursitis). Muds are effective in the ailments of the peripheral nervous system (radiculitis, neuritis, polyneuritis) and central nervous system (meningitis, encephalitis, poliomyelitis); Diseases of the ear, nose and throat (sinusitis, tonsillitis, frontitis, sinusitis, otitis, rhinitis). Treatment should be done during the remission period or after the completion of the acute process.

Dead Sea muds are used in active and passive procedures. The first act quickly, activate the hidden reserves of the body and are recommended in general to healthy people. Lasts up to 30 minutes at a temperature of up to 42 degrees. Passive procedures are actually a sparing regime. But they can be conducted more often.

There is also a number of contraindications for the use of mud. These cases include the stages of exacerbation of any diseases, the presence of benign formations (myoim, fibroids, cysts, adenofibrom) in the area of exposure or malignant in any area. Also, mud treatment is prohibited after the transfer of blood diseases, hypertension, circulatory failure, atherosclerosis, after heart attacks and strokes, with problems with the thyroid gland, the most severe forms of diabetes, urinary tract diseases, kidneys, jaundice of any kind, cirrhosis. Dead Sea mud treatment is not performed with mental illness (neurosis, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy), during pregnancy. People older than 65 years can only carry out local procedures.