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Healing Spring Water

Any natural occurrence wherewater comes from underground and flows on to the surface of the earth is called spring.

When water crosses the underground layers of rocks, dissolve them and come to the surface as mineral water - it's properties is different from region to region, even from spring to spring; (the deepest layer it comes from, the hottest it is...)

But the temperature is not necessarily the characteristic of these spring waters - the healing effect comes mostly, from the mineral composition of this springs and the Geothermal energy of this underground water.

Classified upon the specific mineral composition, healing spring water can different different therapeutic properties:

  • Trace minerals such as: carbon dioxide, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and lithium are absorbed by the body and provide healing effects to various body organs and systems
  • Sulphuric waters for instance, can have a therapeutic effect on skin diseases, including: Psoriasis, dermatitis, and fungal infections
  • Some mineral waters are also used to help the healing of wounds and other skin injuries

Spa Healing spring water:

Bathing in mineral waters, and also drinking them in small quantities - under medical advice - can help the body heal itself from different diseases like:

  • heart and blood-vessel deficiencies (myocarditis, heart valve),
  • diseases of the alimentary canal (hypo acid gastritis, gall bladder dyskinesis, chronic cholecystitis, chronic hepatitis, etc.)
  • metabolic and nutrition disorders (diabetes mellitus, obesity, etc.),
  • women diseases,
  • chronic diseases of the kidneys and urinary system (kidney lithiasis, chronic pyelonephritis, chronic glomerulonephritis),
  • respiratory (microbial or viral pneumopathy, allergic asthma, bronchitis, etc.)
  • otorhynolaryngological diseases (laryngitis, nasal and sinusal allergy),
  • associated diseases (degenerative and abarticular rheumatism , asthenic neurosis, endocrine disorders, etc.)
  • dermatological (incipient ichthysis, chronic eczema and rush, neurodermatitis, acne, etc.)

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Thermal spring water facilitate healing in a number of important ways:

Bathing in hot springs gradually increases the temperature of the body, thus killing harmful germs and viruses,

Thermal bathing increases hydrostatic pressure on the body, thus increasing blood circulation and cell oxygenation. The increase in blood flow also helps dissolve and eliminate toxins from the body,

Hot springs bathing increases the flow of oxygen-rich blood throughout the body, bringing improved nourishment to vital organs and tissues

Bathing in thermal water increases body metabolism, including stimulating the secretions of the intestinal tract and the liver, aiding digestion

Water energies"The energy in spring water is said to have excellent effects on our health, enhancing the correct energy fields necessary for our human bodies" - says Charlie Ryrie, the author of "The Healing Energies of Water " - She teaches us how to access the energy locked within water molecules to:

  • combat conditions like PMS, fatigue, respiratory problems and joint pain
  • take advantage of water's natural properties for beautifying and rejuvenating skin
  • use water as vibrational medicine

The book gives lots of up to the minute information about healing with water, both through healthy drinking practices and bathing.

Romania has one third of European healing spring water spas, for drinking and bathing

Flora Geriatric The healing effects of these springs are proven and make these spa resorts so popular.

Romania is very rich in mineral resources such as thermal, sulfurous or salted water, and natural mud. The salt-mines and the ozone rich mountain air are other healing natural factors.

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Romania's 3,000 mineral and thermal springs have been unrivalled in their range of curative properties ever since the ancient Romans partook of them.

All the springs have characteristic, individual qualities. The value of the waters is given by the diversity of health-giving qualities; they have special peculiar qualities to them only, suiting them for the treatment of a given group of diseases, as part of a complex therapy program:

  • locomotive apparatus disorders
  • rheumatic diseases
  • post traumatic affections
  • cardiovascular diseases
  • central and peripheral nervous system affections
  • gynecological affections
  • digestive tract and annex glands
  • nutrition and metabolism
  • kidneys and urinary ducts affections
  • endocrine diseases
  • respiratory troubles
  • otorhinolaryngological affections
  • dermatological affections
  • allergies
  • asthenia neurosis
  • liver and bile/bladder affections

felix spaFelix Bath for example is a health spa resort with many mineral springs with thermal waters (20-48°C), oligothermal, radioactive, sulphurated, calcic, sodic, bicarbonated waters known since the beginning of the millennium, fossil sapropelic mud.

The soothing effect of the waters on articular and muscular pain and on various rheumatic neuralgias accounts for the fame of cures in the resort for the treatment of:

  • inflammatory rheumatic diseases (rheumatic poly arthritis, rheumatoid spondylitis, conditions after acute articular rheumatism),
  • degenerative (spondylitis, arthritis, polyarthrosis, lumbar sciatica) and ab articular rheumatic diseases (tendonitis, tendomyositis, scapulohumeral perriarthritis etc.),
  • central and peripheral neurological disorders (hemipareses, para pareses etc.),
  • gynecological diseases (chronic metrosalpingitis, minor pubertal or menopausal disorders),
  • post-traumatic conditions (after operations on articulations, muscles and bones, after fractures, sprains, etc.),
  • endocrinology disorders etc.

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Today, there are more than 160 spa resorts using water therapy which are located in various parts of the country, in the mountains and the hill-country, at the sea-side and even on the plain.

Romanian cure resorts are equipped to offer excellent facilities for alternative therapeutic massage spa, rest and recreation, treatments for many kinds of affections and up-to-date medical installations.

Spa is an accepted form of mainstream medicine in Europe and Japan, where an abundance of medical evidences show multiple health benefits in addition to relieving stress. Spa Resorts

Healing Spring Water Facts and News
health benefit of water

The underground energized healing spring water is the main factor in traditional spas in Europe, where the practice of using it is called Balneotherapy.

Water energies

The term of "Spa" comes in fact from the place with this name in Belgium, where since ancient times spring mineral water has been use to cure diseases by drinking it or bathing in it.

Borsec

Borsec (Romania) owes its fame to its mineral healing spring waters, known for their curing properties.

Natural cures (the microclimate, the air cure, the place cure, the watering cure and healing waters), and physiotherapeutic procedures are reputedly able to heal or ameliorate nutrition or metabolism illnesses.

The town and the surrounding area are well known for their spas and mineral waters.