Thermal mud treatment in the Kazakhstan Sanatorium
Unique natural healing factors of the Caucasus Mineralnye Vody — climate, mineral water and natural mud — provide optimal conditions for the recovery of your body.
The Kazakhstan Sanatorium offers thermal mud treatment (peloid therapy) with highly mineralized sulfide silt mud from Lake Tambukan.
Mud from Lake Tambukan has antiseptic properties, it stimulates regenerative processes of your skin, improves the musculoskeletal system. This mud is used in gynecology, urology and cosmetology. Diseases of the digestive and nervous systems, respiratory organs are also indications for mud treatment.
Thermal mud treatment is based on three factors: temperature, mechanical and chemical effects.
The temperature effect can be attributed to the specific heat capacity of the mud. The heated substance gives off heat to the body for a long time, and the warming up effect is profound. Wrapping in a special medical tarp and warming with a blanket can prolong peloids effect on the body. The procedure takes about 15 minutes.
Mechanical effect causes irritation in receptors located on the skin, increasing microcirculation and altering tissue metabolism.
Chemical exposure is considered to be a prime factor causing necessary therapeutic effect. Mud useful substances are absorbed into the skin, and thermal and mechanical factors contribute to the penetration. The combination of these three factors has a beneficial effect in health resort treatment of various diseases.
