Crocuses are budding outside. The down jacket is hanging in the closet again. We breathe easy. But the body often doesn’t keep up so quickly. The immune system struggles with the changing temperatures and we feel tired all the time because the hormones are going haywire.
Air, light and earth help against this. Those who use their power can start spring fit. Healing earth, for example, a purely natural product, cleanses the body inside and out. It detoxifies and brings the immune system into position. This works against an acidic stomach, aching joints, inflammation and tense muscles and calms the vegetative nervous system. Thanks to its high silicon content, it also firms the skin.
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Fango on prescription
Statutory health insurance reimburses the costs for an outpatient cure with healing earth applications if it is medically necessary. The general practitioner or specialist must certify this in an application. There is also a subsidy of 13 euros per day for accommodation. It is best to choose the appropriate place and spa hotel and then contact the doctor. Individual fango packs are also available on prescription, often in combination with physiotherapy or a massage.
Use gifts of nature
Whether clay, loess, sea silt, moor or fango, whether white, brown, yellow or green: the soil has a variety of healing earths. They mostly formed during the last ice age, when the finest rock dust was deposited. The tiny particles can optimally store heat and release it slowly. And they contain all the important minerals and trace elements. The different colors are caused by the respective content of iron and copper. In Germany, for example, the healing earth “Luvos” is approved as a medicinal product.
But other products are not necessarily worse. Each soil is made up a little differently and has different benefits. “The best way to find out which one is most effective for you is to try it out,” says Gabriele Zimmermann, naturopath from Munich.
Healing earth gives energy
Fango – healing power from the volcano
Where does he comes from? From Italy, the name means “mud”. Fango is mainly mined in the Veneto region, but also in southern Germany.
What’s in it? Minerals from volcanic rock, thermal water and microorganisms. Seaweed is often added.
Why is he helping? Warm fango on the skin improves blood circulation. The added algae components stimulate the production of painkilling substances in the body.
what can he do Fango alleviates joint pain and relaxes cramped muscles. The mineral salts in the thermal water bring the acid balance of the skin into balance. They can relieve psoriasis and acne.
Fango on prescription
Statutory health insurance reimburses the costs for an outpatient cure with healing earth applications if it is medically necessary. The general practitioner or specialist must certify this in an application. There is also a subsidy of 13 euros per day for accommodation. It is best to choose the appropriate place and spa hotel and then contact the doctor. Individual fango packs are also available on prescription, often in combination with physiotherapy or a massage.
Moor – concentrated plant power
Where does it come from? The moist earth of the natural moor is mined in many regions of Germany.
What’s in it? Moor is a cocktail of healthy plant substances and hormones with estrogen-like effects. For example, sulfur and humic acid that have a disinfecting effect, which binds harmful substances in the body.
Why does it help? The mud bath warms up the body, which reacts with an “artificial fever”. This activates the self-healing powers.
What can it do? Moor works against viruses and bacteria, inhibits inflammation, helps with hormone fluctuations and exhaustion. Relieves diseases of the joints, intervertebral discs and muscles.
How do I use it?As a bath, wrap or pack. Ready-made moor earth compresses can be warmed up at home in the microwave or in the oven. For internal use, mix moor powder with warm water.
Healing earth – the ideal cleaning agent
Where does she come from? The most widespread healing earth in Germany is made from loess, a porous rock that makes soil fertile.
What’s in it? Loess is coarser-grained than clay but finer-grained than sand. It contains silicon and minerals such as feldspar and clay minerals.
Why is she helping? Loess binds pollutants, helps the body to detoxify and purify naturally.
what can she do Helps with skin complaints, burns, vein and joint diseases.
How do I use them? Best cold as a wrap, pack, compress and internally as a drink, granules or capsules.
Sea Silt – Salt and Mud doubled
Where does he comes from? Sea mud is obtained, for example, from the Wadden Sea of the North Sea or the Dead Sea in Israel.
What’s in it? A lot of oxygen, sea salt, sulfur and organic substances of plant and animal origin.
Why is he helping? Trace elements contained in the salt activate the skin’s metabolism. Sulfur softens the skin and has an antiseptic effect, making wounds heal more easily.
what can he do Relieves vein and skin diseases and rheumatism.
How do I use it? For example as a bandage or face mask.
Clay – alleviates pain in the finest way
Where does he comes from? In Germany, white clay or kaolin comes mainly from Saxony. Green clay is mined in France, for example.
What’s in it? Clay contains minerals such as quartz, silicon or calcite.
Why is he helping? Clay is the type of clay with the finest grain. The many tiny particles together form a large surface – it binds harmful substances and sucks them out of the body like a piece of kitchen paper. As a result, it has a decongestant, anti-inflammatory effect.
what can he do Moist poultices with clay healing earth relieve pain: the liquid is warmed up by body heat and evaporates. It’s pleasantly cool. Clay healing earth helps with gastrointestinal problems because it binds excess acids.
How do I use it? Internally as a drink, externally as a pack or wrap.
Rügen chalk flatters the skin
Where does she come from? From the “white” shores of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
What’s in it? Healing chalk consists largely of limestone, which has formed from the shells and shells of mussels and sea creatures. In addition, silicon, magnesium, iodine and others.
Why is she helping? Applied warm or cold to the skin, healing chalk improves the skin’s metabolism and its barrier function.
what can she do Relieves rheumatic diseases, joint problems, arthrosis, sciatica and many skin diseases. The skin is smoother, looks fresher and feels more supple.
How do I use them? As a full or foot bath or pack.
Mud cure for at home
Pain wraps
Mix one of the healing clays with a little water to form a thick, smooth paste. Then apply directly to the skin – the larger the area to be treated, the thinner. Wrap a damp cloth around it first and a dry cotton cloth second. Wrap the whole thing in a woolen cloth and crawl under a blanket to rest. If you want, you can take a hot water bottle with you. After 60 to 90 minutes, remove the envelope.
For a warm wrap, heat the earth porridge to 40 degrees with hot water and spread it on a cloth. Wrap again according to the three-layer principle. After 30 to 45 minutes, remove the envelope. This relaxes hardened and cramped muscles.
Compress against inflammation
Soak three to four tablespoons of healing earth in one liter of water for a few hours. Then dip a cloth in the healing earth water, let it drain and apply wet. In contrast to the wrap, the cloth is only big enough to cover the affected area. Put a dry cloth over it, possibly wrap it all up with a sheet or blanket. Rest for one to one and a half hours.
Wrap the compress over your forehead, temples or neck if you have a headache.
Face pack against impure skin
For a mask, mix two tablespoons of healing earth (clay or loess earth) with four tablespoons of warm water. If you have dry skin, add a little olive oil, half a teaspoon at most. Apply, avoiding the eye area.
After 20 minutes, rinse off the face mask with clear water and apply lotion to the skin. If you want to use the peeling effect: let the soil dry on your skin and rub it off with a damp cloth.
Bathing for well-being
Get yourself nice and dirty: For a full bath, add 500 to 1000 grams of healing earth (loesserde) to around 37 degree warm water. Bask in the warmth for 15 to 30 minutes. Then wrap in a bath towel without drying and leave for half an hour. Then shower off the worst of it. Avoid the remains of healing earth adhering to the skin and lie down again. After about a quarter of an hour, rub off the lumps of earth with a damp cloth. This increases the circulation effect and makes the skin rosy and clean. For a mud bath, set the water to about 40 degrees. Moor only gives off heat slowly, so you have a pleasant feeling of 37 degrees on your skin. However, full baths strain the circulation. If you have problems with this, it is best to talk to your doctor or naturopath beforehand. Or try a sitz bath. Plus half the amount of healing earth
put in the tub.
Drink for the immune system
A glass of healing earth water per day is enough to support the immune system. For the drink, dissolve one or two teaspoons in still water or cold herbal tea and leave overnight. For the mild version, the sediment remains in the glass. The healing clay has a more concentrated effect if you stir up the sentence again and again and drink it in sips, preferably on an empty stomach after getting up and just before going to bed. Continue the drinking cure for three to four weeks, then take a break for two weeks.
health resorts
BAD SOBERNHEIM
In the tranquil health resort in Rhineland-Palatinate, Pastor Emanuel Felke (1856-1926) developed his holistic cures, which combined the elements of light, air, water and earth with clay. His legacy is still alive today. Those who wish can bathe outdoors in the earth in summer. To do this, “troughs” are dug into the ground and filled with freshly excavated clay. Felke cures are offered by the organic hotel “Menschels Tolfioowresort” (www.menschel.com) and “BollAnt’s Wellnesshotel” .
BAD WURZACH
In the oldest mud bath in Baden-Württemberg, healing earth comes into proper tubs. In the “Kurhotel am Reischberg” (www.kurhotel-am-reischberg.de), bathers traditionally sit in wooden tubs, relaxing in a healthy mix of moorland and thermal water. Anyone suffering from rheumatism, joint, intervertebral disc and spine problems or osteoporosis is in good hands here.
BAD MUSCOW
Moor bathing also has a tradition in Saxony. Ever since natural moor was discovered in Bad Muskau in 1824, it has been used for cures. The imposing “Kulturhotel Fürst Pückler Park”, built in the historical style, revives this tradition luxuriously .
RÜGEN
Chalk treatments have been experiencing a renaissance on Germany’s largest island for ten years. In the “Cliff Hotel” guests are spoiled with Rügen healing chalk during an oriental Rasul ceremony. The chalk is applied to the body and dries slightly in the herbal steam of the Rasul bath. After a short time, the bath is slowly warmed up again. The pack softens a little and causes a pleasant tingling sensation. It works like a peeling and tightens the skin (www.cliff-hotel.de). Chalk mud is also applied by lifeguards in the “Grand Hotel Binz” with a purifying effect, in combination with sea buckthorn oil, which soothes irritated skin ( www.grandhotelbinz.com ). Rubbed with chalk mud, guests in the “Wald hotel Göhren” can relax on the water bed or in the Rasul bath .
