Speleotherapy
Speleotherapy is a non-drug method of treatment that "works" on the basis of a special, unique microclimate of caves. Initially, the concept of "speleotherapy" referred exclusively to the description of the method of treatment, in which the patients were located inside the speleo-hospitals located underground (salt, castra, etc.).
Nowadays, speleotherapy is more often called medical procedures that are carried out in special rooms where salt plates are mounted on the walls (if you follow the correct terminology, this is incorrect. It is correct to call such therapy speleoclimatotherapy).
The main difference between this method of treatment and halotherapy lies in the fact that in the salt room for speleotherapy sessions there is no special equipment that saturates the air with saline solutions. The essence of speleotherapy is that the patient stays in a room with a unique microclimate inherent in salt caves and mines for a long time.
Such rooms always have their own special microclimate, and the air is saturated with ions, and the number of allergens in it is reduced to zero. Also, there is always a constant temperature regime. If we are talking about the microclimate of a karst cave, then an additional therapeutic effect in it will be achieved due to radioactivity and a high concentration of carbon dioxide.
SPELEOTHERAPY: TREATMENT AND IMPACT ON THE ORGANISM
The salt room can have the following effects on the human body:
- positively affects the work of the cardiovascular system;
- significantly increases immunity (provided that the patient has completed a full course of therapy);
- disinfects due to the presence of negatively charged particles in the room air;
- calms the central nervous system, reducing aggressiveness and relieving a person of anxiety;
- improves concentration due to ionized air;
- contributes to the improvement of lung function, and liquefaction of the collected sputum with its further excretion;
- lowers blood pressure.
As a rule, one session of speleotherapy takes 30 minutes. And, if a person goes through a full course of therapy, which lasts 3-4 weeks, then 85% of his condition will improve significantly, and the symptoms of the disease will begin to "subside".
Usually, the greatest efficiency can be achieved when conducting speleotherapy for children. After all, as practice shows, it is children with diseases at stage 1 that most often can be completely cured.
SPELEOTHERAPY: CONTRAINDICATIONS AND INDICATIONS
Most often, a course of speleotherapy is prescribed by a doctor when a patient has the following ailments:
- hay fever;
- mild asthma;
- chronic pneumonia;
- rhinitis and sinusitis of allergic origin;
- the chronic form of bronchitis;
- hypertension 1 and 2 degrees.
For which diseases the patient will never be prescribed speleotherapy:
- lung cysts;
- bronchiectasis;
- acute respiratory failure;
- hypertension grade 3;
- the severe form of asthma;
- pneumosclerosis;
- circulatory insufficiency of the 2nd degree and above.
In addition, a salt cave or room is not able to have a positive effect on the body if a person has an acute form of a disease (for example, acute bilateral pneumonia) or a certain somatic disease (for example, an open form of tuberculosis).
It is worth noting that so far many properties of the caves have not been thoroughly studied. That is, there are many inexplicable facts proving the positive effect of salt rooms on any other diseases, but there are no scientific explanations for this yet.
