by means of dirt was a widespread method of traditional medicine many thousands years ago. It is interesting that mud cure was widespread about three thousand years ago both in Ancient Egypt, and at an ancient South American civilization of Aztecs. These two, it would seem absolutely different nations could invent independently and almost identically perform treatment by dirt.
This way of treatment consists in imposing of curative dirt on sore parts of the body. Such curative dirt is most spread in the CIS countries:
- Silt mud. It is viscous black weight z a smell of hydrogen sulfide and bitter and salty smack. It is extracted in estuaries and other salt reservoirs.
- Peat dirt. This dirt can be found in freshwater peat bogs. She can be recognized on black or yellow brown I blossom.
- Clay silt. It can be found in silt deposits of fresh lakes.
- Sapropelic dirt. Sapropel is a silt which can be found in freshwater ponds, swamps and lakes. It is possible to recognize it by olive, gray or brownish brown I blossom.
Curative dirt from the coast of the Dead Sea is also very useful.
Features of this dirt – the high thermal capacity and heat-retaining ability and also high colloidity allow useful chemicals to get through the uninjured skin and to stimulate the system of connecting fabric, an endocrine gland, skin blood supply. Also curative dirt promotes a metabolism and has the anesthetizing and weakening effect.
Curative dirt in the form of warm appliques and mud wrappings is plentifully applied at treatment of joints. Mud-therapy relieves muscular, rheumatic and articulate pains and also reduces inflammatory processes in joints. To cure joints by means of dirt, it is necessary to apply warm dirt on the struck places with a thick layer, then to turn back a polyethylene film and to muffle in a towel. In half an hour it is necessary to wash away dirt warm water without soap. After the procedure it is necessary to have a rest in the warm room. Usually the course of treatment of joints consists of ten similar procedures.
For treatment of a backbone it is necessary to smear with a thin layer of the warmed dirt a back, then to wrap up a back in a thin oilcloth, to be wrapped up with a sheet and two warm blankets. In an hour it is necessary to wash away water without soap dirt and to have a rest in the warm room. It is necessary to repeat such procedure twelve times within a month.
For faster and effective treatment of joints and a backbone it is desirable to take mud baths with additives of mineral salts. It is also possible to feel small exacerbation of diseases after the first two-three procedures which in speed will disappear.
This dirt can also be used in the cosmetic purposes to make the skin more smooth and clean. Warm dirt should be applied with a thin layer on a body, then to wash away warm water without soap in forty minutes.
However mud cure is contraindicated at heart diseases, tuberculosis, a hypertension, atherosclerosis, inflammatory processes and chronic diseases of kidneys.