The history of thalassotherapy
One of the most effective, natural and complete ways to regain unity and harmony.
Seawater is the most important and complete mineral water that exists in nature. It should therefore come as no surprise that man been using seawater for therapeutic reasons since ancient times. Euripides (450 BC), while being treated by Egyptian doctors, said: “the sea cures all of man’s illnesses”. In fact, various elements of the sea environment were used empirically for ancient medical applications.
Thalassotherapy became a modern science in around 1700 after the observations of the English physician Richard Russell who noticed a clear improvement in his patients’ skin pathologies after a long seaside holiday. Thalassotherapy has seen a period of great development with institutions offering marine cures springing up in various parts of Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic, Atlantic, French and Spanish coasts. After a long period of relative decline, thalassotherapy underwent a progressive revaluation at the start of the 1960s. It was seen as an integrative method for rehabilitation, recovery and maintenance of overall wellness in the human body.
Today, thalassotherapy is one of the most effective, natural, complete methods of rediscovering unity and harmony. The first to move in this direction were French centres in Quiberon on the Atlantic, and Saint Malo on the English channel. But heralding the move to the Third Millennium is the sea of Sardinia and the research of the medical team at the Thaermae del Forte led by Dr. Angelo Cerina.
