Costa Calida - Talasotherapy
The therapeutic properties of the mud and clay have been known since antiquity. For centuries the Chinese used them in poultices to cure inflammations. Many other cultures of the Indian sub-continent and South America found alleviation from rheumatic pain in sands and clays. Hippocrates (460-337 BC), one of the fathers of western medicine, recommended this treatment, as did many other doctors of old, such as Empedocles (490-430BC), Galen, in the 2nd century AD. and Paracelsus, in the XVI century, all mention various popular remedies based on the use of clays and muds that supplied the body with basic ions for its health, such as calcium, magnesium, silicon, iron and potassium.
