Sulphurous Mineral Waters: New Applications for Health

Sulphurous Mineral Waters: New Applications for Health

Sulphurous mineral waters have been traditionally used in medical hydrology as treatment for skin, respiratory, and musculoskeletal disorders. However, driven by recent intense research efforts, topical treatments are starting to show benefits for pulmonary hypertension, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure, peptic ulcer, and acute and chronic infla...

Sulphurous mineral water oral therapy: effects on erythrocyte metabolism.

The ingestion of water containing hydrogen sulphide (H(2)S) is common in spring sulphurous mineral water (SMW) therapy. We hypothesized that observed detrimental effects are related to the alteration of erythrocytes metabolism caused by H(2)S. To verify our hypothesis, we treated 20 healthy volunteers with SMW and evidenced an increase of methemoglobin concentration, an inhibition of both eryth...

The Mineral Waters and Health Resorts of Europe

Mineral waters in rheumatoid arthritis

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder affecting nearly 1% of adult population. First-line therapies include disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, but creno-balneotherapy is often prescribed in rheumatic disorders and RA is no exception. Objectives: To know the efficacy of creno-balneotherapy in RA. Methods: A Medline based search was made using MeSH terms “balneology”...

Sulphurous Acid in Cholera

P. N. I. at Peshavvur during the cholera epidemic of 1876, had made extraordinary recoveries under the use of this medicine, i. e, the proportion of recoveries was unusually large. The cases of cholera in the 20th P. N. I. above mentioned were under my treatment, and it occurred to rue that the solution of sulphurous acid would be, when given internally, much more efficacious than by any other ...