Formy terapii sianem foenum stosowane w lecznictwie uzdrowiskowym metodą Sebastiana Kneippa w Europie Zachodniej

*Krzysztof Spałek¹, Izabela Trzewikowska², Karina Słonka²

Summary
A hay therapy is called a “morphine of a natural medicine” and is used in a form of a supplement to baths, compresses, sitz baths and hay stamp massage. A pharamacodynamic effects of a hay depends on it’s ingredients. In Western Europe, in baleonology and in health-resort services, hay is used for treatment of: soft tissue rheumatism, arthritis, bronchitis, backache, respiratory tract illnesses, neuralgia, vegetative neurosis, depression and exhaustion because it is calming, relaxing and congestive,diastolical. A popular treatment are Sebasian Kneipp’s hay compresses on a lumbar segment or cervical segment of spine. They are based on a local overheating of a treated body fragment with a hay pack (size 30 x 50) which is formely warmed with water vapour.

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