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Definitions in Hot Spring Medicine
June 9, 2010
“Kaplıca” (Thermal Spring) From Past to Present
June 9, 2010
Natural Mineral Waters and Spring Waters: Definition and Classification
Mineral waters and spring waters, that naturally come to the surface of the earth, “boiling” spring waters under the ground, have always been a source of interest for mankind throughout history. Before, while these waters would only be used at where they would surface, later, the development of science and technology provided the opportunity for this to be bottled. This way, natural water
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Roots of THERMAL SPRING and SPA
Ph. D. M. Zeki Karagülle A brief looking at the history of thermal spring would be useful to understand the development of thermal springs in the USA in these 20 years. A possible source for the term spa would be in Latin "Salus per Aqua" and means "health with water" or "health coming from water". Spa at the same time is a name of a village which has springs of hot mineral water in Belgium.
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Supplementary Treatments
Spas are also integrated with balneotherapeutic methods within the framework of such complex cure treatment with series of additional treatment methods. Treatment methods administered by hands are the most spread among these. Massage and exercise have earned the quality of being irreplaceable components of cure in modern European Spas as Such two methods. Their significance is still maintained
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Natural Treatment Methods
Use of hot springs and spas on the territories of our country for purposes of health and treatment is a tradition going all the way for a thousand years and still continuing. In reality this tradition exists in almost all of the civilizations. Today it maintains its existence and spread in all continents mainly South, Middle and Eastern Europe, Asia (Middle East, Japan, China, Turkic Republics)
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Talasso Therapy Centers
Etymologically, Talassotherapy is from the unification of the words thalasso (sea) therapy (treatment), which is a treatment system that aims to treat and/or protect from illness via using a sea climate, sea water, sea mud, moss, sand and other materials obtained from the sea in the form of treatment cures. The actual creator of this term is the famous physician Hypocrites, who is one of the
Continue ReadingDaily Developments in Health Tourism and the Future
Why Health Tourism Being healthy and being aware of life are continuously developing notions for the modern human and they want to reach globalized health services in the globalized world to protect and develop their health and reach the most effective treatments available. Gradually, the “very much” aging world population wants to have a healthy older age and doesn’t want to get old.
Continue ReadingTurkey’s Hot Springs, Hot Spring Treatments in the World and Turkey
1. Spa, hot spring, thermal water source, drinkable or hot spring: These are all used by the public. If you would like, let’s clarify this, do all of these words mean the same thing or do they vary depending on the characteristics of the water? ZK. Spa, is a Turkish word, closed hot spring (comes from hot spring with a facility). Hot spring is the source of the hot water or the region. Thermal
Continue ReadingThermal Tourism, Hot Spring Tourism and Turkey’s Reality
Hot springs; Historical and Natural Richness Using thermal and mineral waters for relaxation and health purposes is as old as the history of humanity. Turkish grounds have witnessed this use via endless historical remains. In Turkish, hot waters and their sources are called “Ilıca” (Hot Spring). With the construction of facilities and baths over these areas, they were called “closed hot
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Balneology: Balneology, means bath science and can be defined as the science of underground, soil, water and climate based natural therapeutics. It examines naturally healing waters, mud and climate factors of natural therapeutic resources from the physical, chemical, biological, geological, hydrological, ecological and medical perspective. For this reason, it is a multidisciplinary are
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“Kaplıca” (Thermal Spring) From Past to Present
“Kaplıca” is a nice word in Turkish meaning “indoor thermal spring”; it derives from two other words meaning “closed” and “hot spring”. It identifies “districts” or “buildings” where natural hot springs are used especially for health purposes. It exactly corresponds to the word “spa” in English. Yet, the Latin word “thermal”, which is used almost in all languages
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