Healing mud (mud treatment)
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Therapeutic muds (peloids) are natural organo-mineral colloidal formations that possess the properties of heat carriers and contain biologically active substances (salts, gases, biostimulants, etc.) and living microorganisms. According to their origin, therapeutic muds are divided into four main types: peat, sapropel, silt and sulphide.
Peat muds are organogenic swamp deposits with a high water content, formed as a result of partial bacterial degradation of the simplest plants under conditions of abundant moistening and poor access to oxygen.
Sapropelic therapeutic muds are the ooze of fresh water bodies with a high content of organic substances and water, formed as a result of repeated macro- and microbiological processing of the simplest aquatic plants and animals.
Silt sulphide therapeutic muds are the ooze of saline water bodies, relatively poor in organic matter and, as a rule, rich in iron sulfides and water-soluble salts.
Sopochnye curative mud refers to mineral mud like clay. They are characterized by low mineralization, complete absence of organic substances, contain gases, sometimes trace elements (iodine, bromine, etc.).
Peculiarities of the action of peloids are due to the combination of the influence of thermal, mechanical, chemical and biological factors.
The main clinical effects: anti-inflammatory, metabolic, trophic, sedative, coagulating, keratolytic, bactericidal, defibrizing, biostimulating.
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