Investigations on chemical composition and natural radioactivity levels from salt water and peloid used in pelotherapy from the Techirghiol Lake, Romania

Calin, Marian Romeo; Rădulescu, Ileana; Ion, Alina Catrinel; Capră, Luiza; Almasan, E. R.

doi:10.1007/s10653-019-00382-8

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“…The main properties of peloids recognised are: their applications in thermotherapy [2,3,5,6] manifested by biological effects, metabolic and enzymatic activity, vascular, neuromuscular, analgesic and modifications of the viscoelastic properties of the tissues [7,8]; several other studies have confirmed their anti-inflammatory [9][10][11][12][13][14], chondroprotective [10,11] and immunological actions [10,[14][15][16] which can be attributed to their chemical composition [17][18][19][20] and organic content [21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Peloids as Thermotherapeutic Agents

Maraver

Castro

Fernandez-Toran³

et al. 2021

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The use of peloids as heat-providing therapeutic systems dates back to antiquity. Such systems consist of a liquid phase and an organic or inorganic solid phase. The latter facilitates the handling, preparation and stability of the solid–liquid system, modifying its organoleptic and phy-sicochemical properties, and improves its efficacy and tolerance. Peloids enable the application of heat to very specific zones and the release of heat at a given rate. The aims of this work are to study 16 reference peloids used in medical spa centers as thermo-therapeutic agents as well as to propose nine raw materials as a solid phase for the preparation of peloids. The physical properties studied are the centesimal composition, the instrumental texture and the thermal parameters. In conclusion, the peloids of the medical spas studied are used as thermotherapeutic agents in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, especially in knee osteoarthritis and to a lesser extent in back pain and psoriatic arthropathy. The clinical experience in these centers shows that the main effects of the application of their peloids are the reduction of pain, an increase in the joint’s functional capacity and an improvement in the quality of life. As thermotherapeutic agents, all the peloids of the me-dical spas studied and the pastes (raw materials with distilled water) examined showed a heat flow rate of up to four times lower than that shown by the same amount of water. The raw materials studied can be used as solid phases for the preparation of peloids with mineral waters.

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Peloids as Thermotherapeutic Agents

Maraver

Castro

Fernandez-Toran³

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“…Comparing the available data from other countries, the mud of Southern and Western Kazakhstan has a low copper content; however, it has a high cadmium content. This is most likely explained by the geological characteristics of the regional geophone (Calin et al, 2020). Boron (in the form of orthoboric acid) is contained below the norm in all the samples studied with the exception of the mud of Lake Stanovoe, where the content of this component was 2 times higher than the lower threshold acceptable for mineral waters, i.e., H 3 BO 3 = 35 mg/L (Adilov et al, 2000).…”

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Chemical composition and physicochemical properties of natural therapeutic mud of Kazakhstan salt lakes: a review

Akimzhanova,

Sabitova,

Mussabayeva

et al. 2024

Environ Geochem Health

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In recent years, interest in natural therapeutic mud has been growing all over the world. This natural product has a positive therapeutic effect on the skin and has fewer side effects on the human body. There are more than 40 thousand salt lakes in Kazakhstan. Most of them have natural mud sources, the potential of which has not yet been fully explored. The review presents an analysis of the available information on the physical and chemical properties of the main sources of natural mud from salt lakes in Kazakhstan and Kazakh sanatoriums that use natural mud in the treatment. All available publications, presenting the systematic studies, were used for data analysis. A comparative analysis of the mineralization of water, brine, and silt in one reservoir shows that the mineralization of water is not always the least. The available data indicate a point and partial nature of peloid studies, e.g., inorganic composition of natural muds from Western and Southern Kazakhstan is well described in the literature. In turn, there is a lack of these data from Northern and Eastern Kazakhstan. Studies of peloids in these regions seem to be a promising direction of the future research for both local and world scientists. What is more, there is also a big gap in the analysis of organic matter of muds from the Kazakh lakes. Comparing the state of the art, i.e., the studies from other parts of Asia and Europe, the identification of the organic part of muds is another desirable direction as a potential source of biologically active compounds of natural origin.

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