Psammotherapy (hot sand therapy)

The origins of sand therapy or sand bath go back to ancient times. Ancient Greeks and Romans treated rheumatisms by immersing the patient’s body, from the chest to the feet, into hot sand. However, sand is also good used to treat inflammatory diseases and ailments such as scoliosis and other problems.

The sand massage perform a constant micromassage and the sand contours to the shape of the body, creating a warming cocoon effect while also creating a comfortable resting place with the best distribution of body weight. The temperature of the sand relaxes muscles and nervous tension, preparing the body perfectly for its massage treatment.”

The warm quartz sand holds heat and acts as a cleanser, disinfectant, and alkalizing element while relaxing the muscles, bones, and joints,” Research explains. “It has the ability to bring the body to complete relaxation in a variety of ways.”

Sand

Sand has remarkable therapeutic properties due to the different minerals of sand. From quartz to silicon and limestone, and residues of minerals that are present in sea water, such as sodium, magnesium, potassium, iodine, chlorine and calcium, which penetrate the body via osmosis. Sand baths (or sand therapy), combines the beneficial effects of heat with those of minerals. Very hot sand is used (48-60°C), but it does not burn the body and releases very gradually the heat, allowing the body’s pores to absorb it without undergoing excessive temperature changes. The average time of a session ranges from 20-40 minutes.

Indications

Sand improves the signs and symptoms of rheumatisms and arthrosis. However, it also helps with the consolidation of fractures, speeds up healing of dislocations and sprains, relieves skin diseases and allergies, works on inflammations of the airways and works against osteoporosis. Suffering from kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, hyper and hypotension, hyperthyroidism, varicose veins, for small children and pregnant women.