General recommendations
Benefits of the Dead Sea Climate
Staying on the coast of the Dead Sea is widely known for its benefits to the people suffering from numerous skin diseases, musculoskeletal, respiratory, nervous system disorders as well as urogenital, psycho-somatic impairments, and many other diseases.
The “Dead Sea Aura” Climatotherapy Salons gracefully recreate and maintain in balance all basic factors of the health improving influence, which in combination with meticulously chosen dosage produces as impressive results as on the coast of the Dead Sea itself.
The same as on the Dead Sea the salutary effect is based on the combined influence of the dispersed infrared radiation, the saturation of the air with the Dead Sea salts (especially bromine ions that are produced in a pure ion form and not by salt powder injection), continuous vortex air interfusion that is washing the skin as well as the special light (yellow-green spectrum), sound, and temperature backgrounds
All listed above factors provide a profound positive physiological effect. It is nonspecific and affects virtually all organs and body systems in a very wholesome way. This effect is supplemented by the washing with the Dead Sea water and applying specially prepared mud pack masques. Their use in a Climatotherapy Salon is different from other forms of fangotherapy and is brought as close as possible to the natural type of Dead Sea shore mud treatment.
What achieves the desired effect
Let us turn to the physiological effect of those beneficial health improving factors that are equally working both at the “Dead Sea Aura” Climatotherapy Salons and on the coast of the Dead Sea itself. They are based on the effects of the long-wave infrared radiation. It penetrates through the skin 7-9 cm deep and causes local heating of tissues and stimulates local blood circulation. When repeated multiple times it stimulates growth of the capillary number (micro angiogenesis). This process is opposite to what is continually happening in a spontaneous way — eventual decreasing of the number of blood vessels in all organs and tissues, causing their aging and age-related decline of hormonal activity.
Local heating results in local increase of blood circulation. Along with that the production and transportation through bloodstream of healing and pain relieving substances such as Cortisol, ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), beta-endorphin are also increased. Cortisol and ACTH are known as anti-inflammatory drugs, whereas beta-endorphins are pain-killers. The heating of tissues by the dispersed long-wave infrared radiation helps to decrease the secretion of the substances stimulating inflammation (rheumatoid factor, PGE2 prostaglandin, and LTB4 leukotriene), which cause inflammatory processes and pain. Such heating also improves the activity of granulocytes, the immunity cells, and their ability for phagocytosis, which helps to strengthen the immune system.
Local dispersed infrared heating results in some decrease of the number of the special immune cells (T-lymphocytes and eosinophils) responsible for allergic reactions and autoimmune diseases.
Negative ions present in the air, especially the ions of bromine and chlorine, constitute an important factor of influence on a Dead Sea shore and in a Climatotherapy Salon. The presence of these ions causes the high antiasthmatic activity of the climate as well as it renders a stabilizing and strengthening effect on the central nervous system, balances the processes of excitation and inhibition in the cortex of the brain hemispheres. Such inhalations can heal respiratory diseases and relieve neuroses. They are also helpful for depressive syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Small doses of yellow-green light spectrum are extremely good for the organs of vision and for the skin because they restore damaged capillaries of the skin and retina, and through hypophysis make a salutary effect on the activity of the brain cortex and the work of the endocrine glands.
Acoustic harmonies reproduced at the Salon combined with the effect of the other factors described above are helping deep and curative relaxation. Important also is the role of washing with the water from the Dead Sea which is taken in concentration ten times smaller than found in nature in order to avoid osmotic stress. The water is wholesome for cleansing and rejuvenation of the skin, and it stimulates the processes of skin breathing. Mud applications are helping important mineral salts, especially those of sulfur and selenium, to penetrate into the body through the skin. This greatly improves the cleansing and the excretory functions of the skin. Mud applications help to discharge through the skin the agents polluting the internal environment of the body, and first of all the xenobiotics, which are substances foreign to the organism.
Who Can Benefit from It?!
At the Climatotherapy Salon “Midbar” the same as at the Dead Sea itself one can get rid of many ailments of body and soul. Attending the Salon and going through the procedures according to the developed methods relieves one from the consequences of the city environmental stress, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, neuroses of various etiologies, restores normal sleep (without using medications). This is very helpful with fibromyalgia.
Combined influence of the ionized air and outlying infrared dispersed radiation factors is curative for the diseases of the joints and the spinal column, rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, back pain, and ankylosing spondyloarthritis.
Skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema recede before the dispersed infrared heating, the washing with the Dead Sea water, and mud applications in the environment of the air ionized with bromine ions.
Such ailments as bronchial asthma, chronic tracheobronchitis, chronic obstructive lung diseases may almost utterly disappear after the completion of the course at the Salon.
The environment of the Climatotherapy Salon makes it is easy to get rid without medications of such diseases as common cold (rhinitis), tonsillitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, genyantritis.
Salon attendance is very helpful for urinary diseases and relieves prostatitis, nephritis, and nephritis.
The Salon is extremely useful for cardio-vascular diseases, in cases of arterial hypertension of 1st, 2d, and 3d stages as well as for trombophlebitis.
Salon attendance is recommended and very helpful for thyroid gland dysfunction, diabetes, adrenocortical insufficiency, and other endosecretary dysfunctions. Secretary function normalization and clinical improvements have been observed.
The Salon has invariably demonstrated a high remedying activity in dealing with situations of sexual dysfunctions and reproductive problems in women. In cases of women with endometrial insufficiency (who were trying to get pregnant in the course of 4-5 years and every time suffered a miscarriage in the 4-5 week of pregnancy), hormonal imbalance (folliculitis — progesterone) going through one to two courses resulted in normal pregnancies with timely and successful delivery of healthy babies (there were total 8 cases of this kind of complaints).
The course of Salon attendance notably shows the improvement of erectile function in men, the increase of libido, and the reaching of full-blown orgasm in cases of system treatment.
All of these facts are directly related to the healing influence of the natural factors of the Dead Sea environment, which is gracefully reproduced by the Climatotherapy Salon «Midbar» of I.H.C.Eden – Dead Sea.Ltd.