Healing properties
The healing properties of Banja Vrujci The thermal water and the mud contain sulphore and is mildly radioactive.There are five main springs and several secondary ones.The temperature of the water is ranging from 26 – 28 -32 C and contain potassium, magnesium and selenium.This healing water emerges out of the mud and looses sediment on the area, approximately 200meters long and 50 m wide. The capacity of the spring is 300litters per sec, so this quality puts this spa on the first place in Serbia.The main well is next to the regulated bathing pools and very near it there is shallower one at the depth of 16ms The water is captivated into the fountain with four pipes from which visitors can freely take the water home. The bathing area of
“Vojvoda Misic” has two outdoor pools with the water flowing in and out of it and with a powerful capacity.The water in the pools changes every two hours in a natural way during the season and this is what makes this spa unique in Serbia.
Thermal waters bring out of the depths the finest mud and silt rich with mineral and radioactive materials thus creating layers near the springs and along the Toplica river. Thousands of years the soil has been soaked with the layers of healing mud actually, humus. In fact the mud contains a greater concentration of mineral elements and comopouds than the water itself.
THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF THE WATER
This mineral water as a beverage can be used as a supplement while treating:
- urinary infections
- renal calculi and urinary tract calculi,
- chronical diseases of the stomach and duodenum.
Bathing in therapeutic supplementary purposes is used for the following diseases:
- neurasthenia,
- neurotical anxiety of the lower degree,
- obsessive compulsive disorder of the lower level,
- hypochondria,
- psychosomatic neurosis,
- ocupational neurosis and hypertensions of the first degree (with no complications in the organs).
Bathing in the hot tubs with reheated water up to 37C is used for treating the following diseases:
- diseases of the locomotor apparatus,
- inflamatory rheumatism (the stadium of calm joint inflammation),
- Behterev disease – the initial stage )
- degenerative rheumatism (arthrosis, spondylosis),
- extraarticulosed rheumatism (fibrositis, miositis, panicul…,tenden…)
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chronical gynecological diseases (chronical zapalj procesies – adnexiti adnexoparamet and infertility, vaginal spraying).
THE HEALING MUD
The genuine mud is applied in many ways, at the very spot, it is carried home by patients, and primarily it is used in medical clinics and the rehabilitation centre of Vrujci Spa. The mud is applied to the whole body or to some parts only. It is used mostly in a kind of diluted form or in a bathing procedure.
Nowadays modern medicine has developed much better and more successful methods in treatment techniques.
In the rehabilitation centres the healing mud is mixed in special containers and warmed up to 60 C and then, according to patients` disesases the mud temperature is adjusted into warm, moderate or cold . The mud is applied to a painful part of the body as a wrap and kept there from 20 to 45minutes, after which it is rinsed off with warm water.
The healing mud contains tiny, fine particles which make a close contact with the skin and produce a powerful therapeutic effect. Beside thermal this procedure has a a chemical effect on the skin too, and on the whole body through absorbing chemical ingredients.
Spreading the bluish mud onto the body and getting dry in the sun, all kinds of rheumatism,sciatica, varicose veins, skin disorders ,etc can be cured. It is also observed that skin scabs and wczema disappear, the skin is rejuvenated and wounds are cured. According to recent studies, the spa water belongs to the category of mild radioactive waters.
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It can cause the increase of white blood cells,lowers blood pressure, has a good effect on endocrine glands (reduces the activity of the thyroid gland),on sex glands and on the anterior of the pituitary lobe.