Heat Retention Benefits
We can endure a Hungarian Wellness Mud treatment application much hotter than bathing or hydrotherapy because the heat conducting capacity of the mud is much lower than water, while the heat capacity is higher.
The mud’s remarkable thermal effect increases fluid circulation, which extends to deep layers. It may have a profound effect on loosening scar tissue. During the course of a Hungarian Wellness Mud treatment we experience a stimulus exerted by the heat on the nerve terminations.
Chemical Benefits
The chemical effect comes through the immunological and hormonal functions of the skin. These effects are very similar to those from thermal baths, while producing more intensive local reactions.
Mechanical Benefits
Dense mud mass exerts site-specific hydrostatic pressure on the surface of the body which reduces the unwanted charge on the circulation system.
Hungarian Wellness Mud Chemical Composition Benefits
Chemical effect: astringent effect causing increased blood supply in the deeper levels of the skin.
Sulphid-sulphuric effect: effects of humic acids having hyper-emiting (blood profusion) effect increase the ACTH mobilization, decrease hyaluronidase activity, after the mud treatment catecholamine emptying decreases, the blood transfer of the capillary vessels increase.
Esters, acids, ethanol extracts – the latter being antibacterial and antiviral - play a part in its inflammation preventing effect.
The decomposition products of the humic acids and lignin prevent the prostaglandin synthesis this way preventing inflammation.
Sulphur produces congestion and capillarization of the skin even at low temperature.
Mud treatment utilizes the stimulation effect of heat on the chemical, immunological and hormonal systems working better.
Thermoenergetic changes can be measured objectively with radiational flow thermometric technique.
Mud treatments influence chondrocyte metabolism, cytokine, which plays a part in inflammation to develop. IL and TNF-alpha recession was observed reducing cartilage inflammation and wear, while IGT was observed to increase cartilage protection. In arthrosis, it reduces pain, the level of the serum PGE 2 and LTB 4 is reduced.
The constituent minerals exert a beneficial effect as they pass through the skin.
Some minerals pass through the skin in the form of ions and molecules without causing skin stimulation. Passing into the blood stream, these elements are then dispersed throughout the body.
Another group of solvents stick to the skin in the form of ions, thereby modifying the mineral content of the skin. These changes cause stimulation, influencing the nervous system (vegetative nerves) and the endocrine system, affecting the whole body.
