2018
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-018-1545-z
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Abstract: In Health Resort Medicine, both balneotherapy and thalassotherapy, salt waters and their peloids, or mud products are mainly used to treat rheumatic and skin disorders. These therapeutic agents act jointly via numerous mechanical, thermal, and chemical mechanisms. In this review, we examine a new mechanism of action specific to saline waters. When topically administered, this water rich in sodium and chloride penetrates the skin where it is able to modify cellular osmotic pressure and stimulate nerve receptors… Show more

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“…The actions of salt mineral waters are mediated by a mechanism conditioned by the concentration and quality of their salts involving cellular osmosismediated activation / inhibition of cell apoptotic or necrotic processes. In turn, this osmotic mechanism modulates the recently described mechanosensitive piezoelectric channels (17). Among the core elements used in Health Resort Medicine, we find mineral waters whose physicalchemical composition plays a key role in their therapeutic properties.…”
Section: Thalassotherapy Today Munteanu Constantin 12 Munteanu Diamentioning
confidence: 85%
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“…The actions of salt mineral waters are mediated by a mechanism conditioned by the concentration and quality of their salts involving cellular osmosismediated activation / inhibition of cell apoptotic or necrotic processes. In turn, this osmotic mechanism modulates the recently described mechanosensitive piezoelectric channels (17). Among the core elements used in Health Resort Medicine, we find mineral waters whose physicalchemical composition plays a key role in their therapeutic properties.…”
Section: Thalassotherapy Today Munteanu Constantin 12 Munteanu Diamentioning
confidence: 85%
“…In Health Resort Medicine, both balneotherapy and thalassotherapy, salt waters and their peloids, or mud products are mainly used to treat rheumatic and skin disorders. These therapeutic agents act jointly via numerous mechanical, thermal, and chemical mechanisms (17). When topically administered, this water rich in sodium and chloride penetrates the skin where it is able to modify cellular osmotic pressure and stimulate nerve receptors in the skin via cell membrane ion channels (17).…”
Section: Thalassotherapy Today Munteanu Constantin 12 Munteanu Diamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Our findings on geothermal water effect can be associated with other researchers' description of saline water (counteract gastric problems, increase cutaneous circulation, reduce inflammation of inflammatory and peripheral nervous system disorders), sulphated water (as a detoxicating agent, reducing gastric secretions), alkaline waters with bicarbonates, calcium, magnesium, potassium (stimulate bile, pancreas, intestines and phlegm secretion, alkalize the urine and the blood) (10). Saline water therapeutic agents have been described to act via mechanical, thermanl, and chemical mechanisms (11). Our finding of best effect for health status of 40 g/l geothermal water procedures meets with the Lithuanian recommendations to use 20-40 g/l water for optimal treatment of disorders (16).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hippocrates was also interested in the therapeutic properties of various waters, theorizing that their differing curative properties came from their differing contents of various minerals, like iron, copper, silver, gold or sulphur (10). Several models of salt water cutaneous adsorption/desorption and penetration of dissolved ions in mineral waters through the skin (osmosis and cell volume mechanisms in keratinocytes) were described and the role of these resources in stimulating cutaneous nerve receptors recently was examined (11). There are many studies/reviews that have reported either physiological, or therapeutic, or the combination of both effects of balneotherapy on a particular system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%