Water therapy is the combination of sea salts and water and is the basis of many powerful therapeutic treatments. There are numerous types of Water Therapy administered at spas, ayurvedic & holistic centers, and health clinics around the world. Sports therapy clinics use Hydrotherapy Baths to help patients recover from joint and muscle injuries. Dermatologists are recommending Bokek Dead Sea Salt baths for patients with psoriasis, eczema and other dry skin conditions. Estheticians emphasize the cleansing properties of a sea salt bath to clean pores and to detoxify the body. Cancer patients use water therapy to help deal with radiation treatments. There are even Water Therapies & therapeutic bath salts you can use on a daily or weekly basis in your own home.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, discovered the therapeutic qualities of seawater by noticing the healing affects it had on the injured hands of fishermen. The seawater not only restricted infection risks, but patients who followed treatments involving the use of seawater found that it also promoted pain relief. It is now known that sea salt therapy is an effective treatment that assists in the rejuvenation of the cells and also induces a healthy exchange of minerals and toxins between the blood and the water.
Types of Water Therapies
Balneotherapy - a range of treatments with warm mineral salt water, from bathing or underwater massage jets to plain drinking. Alkaline water helps stimulate the secretion of bile, while hypnotic water has diuretic effects and is often used for treating kidney stones.
Heliotherapy - use of the sun’s creative properties. Despite recent awareness of skin cancers, sun remains an excellent source of energy, boosts immunity and stabilizes mood when used appropriately. Skin treatments combine this with sea salt baths but should only be used together under the supervision of a doctor.
Phytotherapy - treatments with wild-growing herbs, plants, flowers or leaves. Used in salt baths, oils or infusions, their effect can be superior to pharmacological treatments for some medical conditions. Try making your own bath salts by combining these ingredients with sea salts.
Thalassotherapy - therapeutic baths using warm seawater. The application of seawater (which is very similar to the body’s own internal fluids) allows magnesium and potassium to be drawn into the blood stream while toxins are actively eliminated.
Climatotherapy of Psoriasis at Safaga Red Sea - Climatotherapy has become a well-established modality for the treatment of psoriasis. It involves various regimens of seawater bathing and sunlight exposure, combined with application of emollients, rest and relaxation over several weeks
Safaga at the Red Sea was found an ideal area for climatotherapy of psoriasis. Many natural factors and present there: plentiful sunshine due to cloudless sky prevailing at least 350 days a year, warm, clear, non-polluted or dusty weather. These elements constitute the main components of the natural therapy of the disease at this area.
A natural selective ultraviolet phototherapy along with bathing in the sea was utilized in the management of psoriasis at Safaga – Red Sea. In 80 patients with psoriasis, 90% achieved complete clearing or excellent improvement. The results compare favorable with other therapeutic regiments used in the treatment of psoriasis. Since systemic medications are avoided, the advantage of Safaga – Climatotherapy is that the treatment is natural, pleasant and without the serious side effects sometimes associated with other methods.
Dead Sea Psoriasis Treatments - The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and psoriasis treatment for several reasons. The mineral content of the waters, the very low content of pollens and other allergens in the atmosphere, the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation, and the higher atmospheric pressure at this great depth each have specific health effects. For example persons suffering reduced respiratory function from diseases such as cystic fibrosis, seem to benefit from the increased atmospheric pressure.
Sunlight at the Dead Sea is high in therapeutic UVA rays and low in burning UVB, so extended exposure is safe and low-risk. The filtering effect comes from a thick atmosphere: the Dead Sea is about 1,200 feet below sea level and the ozone layer above it is minimally depleted. The Dead Sea is the only place on Earth where you can sunbathe for extended periods with little or no sunburn because harmful ultraviolet rays are filtered through three natural layers: an extra atmospheric layer, an evaporation layer that exists above the Dead Sea, and a rather thick ozone layer.
Ichthyotherapy ( therapy with theso-called‘ Doctorfish of Kangal’, Garrarufa ) has been shown to be effective inpatients with psoriasis in the Kangal hot springsin Turkey. This treatment was first mentionedin The Lancetin 1989 but the details of the treatment were published only recently by Ozcelik etal. According to the authors two Different types of fish live in the pools of the Kangalhot spring: Cyprinionm acrostomus and Garrarufa. Both fish are members of the carpandminnow family (Cyprinidae). Garrarufa is regarded as the main therapeutic. Garrarufa is normally a bottom dweller ,where it adheres by suction to rocks with its ventral crescent shaped mouth to feed on phyto and zooplankton However , in the hot pools of Kangal , where phyto - and zooplankton are scarce , these fish feed on the skin scales of bathers, reportedly reducing illnesses such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis .Whether this remarkable treatment is also effective outside of the Kangal hot spring in Turkey is unknown . Since there have been many unscientific and misleading names for this kind of therapy , we suggest the term ‘ichthyotherapy’ , in accordance with other so called biotherapy concepts such as maggot therapy (use of sterile fly larvae), hirudo therapy(use of leeches) and apitherapy ( use of bee venom).
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