Natural medicinal resources and their therapeutic applications

Abstract

Natural medicinal resources are a country’s natural wealth. Natural medicinal waters, medicinal gases, and peloids have many properties that enable their use in the treatment of gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, bone and joint, and skin and soft tissue disorders. Balneotherapy can be also applicable in prevention of many diseases and rehabilitation. At present, because there are several chemicals of synthetic origin, there is a need to search for nonpharmacological approaches and explore natural healing sources, which better fit the human body. Compared to synthetic drugs, these resources rarely show side effects, which increases the comfort of therapy. The use of natural medicinal resources in the form of treatments in health resort medicine centers under the supervision of balneologists, combined with the healing properties of the climate, contributes not only to the reduction of treatment time for many diseases but also to improvement of therapy’s results. The article discusses natural medicinal resources and some of their therapeutic applications.

The influence of brine graduation towers on biometeorological conditions, on the example of Ciechocinek spa town (Poland)

“…Salt brine is more important for its therapeutic effects (Ciężkowski et al 2010;Ziemska et al 2019). Quickly, the saline aerosol found in the air in salt mines, man-made chambers and around graduation towers also began to be used in balneology.…”

Qualimetric Model for Assessing the State of the Central Nervous System of Animals When Studying the Mechanism of Biological Activity for Mineral Waters

“…Mineral waters (MW) are used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes for many diseasesthe musculoskeletal system [2], in particular, to improve bone metabolism [3], in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract [4,5], with functional disorders of the biliary tract [6], with cardiovascular diseases [7,8] reduce biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk [9], in metabolic diseases [10,11] and peripheral nervous system) [12]. Compared to synthetic drugs, MW rarely shows side effects with treatment [13], etc.…”