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 plays an important role in curing important and widespread illnesses (astro-rheumatic, metabolic, stress and mental health) but is also used as a preventative wellness medicine for healthy patients. Seawater is scientifically defined as “hypertonic water containing chloride, iodine and bromide”. In fact, it has precise therapeutic uses from bone conditions (e.g. arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.) to skin complaints (eutrophic, cleansing and anti-edimatose action), respiratory problems (chronic bronchitis and allergies) and cosmetic medicine. Thalassotherapy is one of the most effective, natural and complete ways to regain you inner unity and harmony. The French were first to go in this direction at Quiberon on the Atlantic and Saint Malo on the English Channel, but at the turn of the third millennium, the Sardinian sea and research by the Thaermae del Forte medical team took over.
