Healing properties of sand

Psammotherapy( from the Latin psammos - "sand", therapia - "treatment") is a method of treatment using hot sand. The treatment of sand wrote famous healers Herodotus, Galen, Avicenna. It was used in ancient times in almost all countries where sand is available. The greatest successes were achieved by the healers of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Official medicine in Russia has recently recognized psammotherapy as an "official" method of treatment.

Currently, it began to be practiced in resorts, clinics specializing in the treatment of locomotor system diseases, as well as in cosmetology.

Sand has a number of properties that give it healing power.

When heated in the sun or using artificial appliances, sand absorbs heat well and slowly gives it to the environment. This explains the possibility of lying on the hot sand beach for hours. As a result of increasing the temperature of subcutaneous tissues, muscles, joints and deep warming of the whole organism in different organs, the process of excretion of toxins and toxins from the body is activated. Being highly hygroscopic, sand instantly absorbs the sweat secreted by the human body when exposed to heat, preventing the body from overheating.

In psammoterapii sand is used, most often heated to a temperature of 50-60 C, which is optimal for the activation of a number of biochemical reactions.

Psammoterapiya has a pronounced chemical activity. The fact is that in the sand contains a large

the amount of carbonates of potassium, calcium and magnesium. This leads to the fact that the general reaction of sand becomes weakly alkaline. When the body, poured from all sides by sand, begins to emit sweat, a kind of carbon dioxide film forms on the skin, which helps to accelerate the movement of oxygen through the body, which normalizes the metabolism.

Sand, in contact with the skin, produces a gentle massage of the skin surface, irritating its sensitive nerve fibers, leading to organs and tissues.