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In ancient times, nomads traveled the desert to enjoy the soothing baths of the Dead Sea salts. Royalty also traveled for miles to take advantage of the Dead Sea salts that they believed restored their youth. They dubbed the Dead Sea salts “the fountain of youth”. It was known in Biblical times as the Eastern Sea, the Romans called it Mare Mortuum, and the Israeli Geographic office called it The Sea of Salt.

The Dead Sea as it is commonly known is in a secluded location. The Dead Sea is near Jerusalem in the Judean Desert. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth and so the Dead Sea salt was spared the ravages of modern pollution and environmental impact. The Dead Sea is actually a gift of nature, a place of health and beauty forever. Some of the same salts found in human cells are located in the Dead Sea salts. These synonymous Dead Sea salts or minerals are calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium and iron, sulphur, phosphorus and chlorine. These same compatible components with the Dead Sea salt most beneficial and produce a rejuvenating and revitalizing effect on skin today.

Dead Sea salt has a beneficial effect on the skin and body:

The largest organ in the body, the skin seems to have the most noticeable effect from the Dead Sea salt. The skin absorbs the Dead Sea salt, vitamins and other substances into the body.

Dead Seas Salts as Therapy

In order to ascertain and confirm the beneficial therapeutic effects of Dead Sea Bath Salts, a series of clinical research projects have been carried out both in Israel and in other countries where the use of the salts has become an established practice.

Dr. I. Machtey (1) studied the influences of Dead Sea Bath Salts on rheumatic patients suffering from osteoarthritis or a localized type of tendiritis. 103 patients were treated for one or two weeks with daily Dead Sea Bath Salts in a sanatorium located about 400 meters above sea level. The patients were randomly assigned to one of three types of baths (three sub groups):

1. Bath treatment with a Dead Sea salt concentration of 7.50%

2. Baths with a 2% salt concentration.

3. Baths with a 0.50% salt concentration.

One week of proper treatment: resulted in impressive improvement in all parameters in patients receiving 7.5% and 2% bath salt concentration, but little or no improvement was noted in those treated with 0.5% salt concentrations. The greater the physical limitations, the more pronounced was the improvement.

Sixty-six patients received two weeks treatment. An additional, slight improvement was noted in patients treated with 7.5%. or 2% salt concentration, and those having only 0.5% salt baths improved relatively more as compared with the results after the first week of treatment. However most of the results in the 0.5% group were less impressive than those in the higher concentrations.

Over 80% of all the patients reported having less pain, 70% said their mobility improved, and about 60% were able to decrease their use of analgesics. Dr. Machtey concludes his study by stating that “There is little doubt that the Dead Sea treatment in those who benefit from it can be extended and repeated at home using a 2% bath solution, which is both economical and readily available”.

A similar study was carried out by Dr. P. Engel (2) from the sanatorium clinic in the City of Mayenbad, Bad Waldsee, in Germany. The study was performed with 60 patients whose rheumatic discomfort could not be substantially reduced by the customary Balneotherapy of their clinic. The baths with Dead Sea Salts were then prescribed in lieu of additional medicinal therapy. Each patient was treated for a duration of 4 weeks, with three baths per week. Salt concentration was 2.5%, duration of bath 20 minutes, temperature of water 37 °C. Parameters examined included: Pain at rest, spontaneous pain, kinesalgia, pain on pressure and reduced mobility.

A summary of the results shows that in 76.2% of the cases, very good therapeutic results were obtained, 10.2% responded moderately well and only 13.6% no success was noted.

Dr. J. Arndt. From Germany (3) made a study of the effect of Dead Sea Bath Salts on patients suffering from psoriasis. Fifty patients, aged between 14 and 77 years were treated with the salts in a controlled way. Treatment consisted of partial or total baths. For a total bath, 2 Kgs (4.5lbs) of the salts were dissolved in a bath at a temperature of 27°C. The partial baths were made with a concentration of about 10%. The baths lasted for 20 minutes and afterwards the skin was thoroughly rinsed with running water. The effect is enhanced when the patient remains in a warm packed condition for one hour after the bath.

The treatment lasted for 3 weeks, with 3-4 baths per week. The results show that most symptoms of the illness diminished within one week of treatment, notably itch, scaling joint complaints, and the falling asleep and sleep through difficulties. Other parameters such as spread, redness and infiltration decreased somewhat more slowly. Improvement was steady - the four week treatment left the patients essentially free from complaints.

Dr. Arndt points out that of particular importance from the patient’s point of view is the rapid relief from such irritating a symptom as itching. There is a corresponding relief from sleeping disturbances, which were rather wide-spread prior to treatment. The drastic decrease in scaling within one week can be interpreted by physician and patient alike as a further proof of the course outlined above:

Healing was total in 27 patients (54%), whereas in 22 cases there was a marked impressive improvement. Tolerance was excellent in all 50 cases. There were no side effects whatsoever, dermatological or otherwise.

(I). “Dead Sea Balneotherapy in Osteoarthritis”, Dr. Machtey ( Hasharon Hospital, Petach-Tikva, Israel). Published in “Proceedings of International Seminar on Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases”. John Wright \ PSG Inc. (1932).

(2). "On the Therapy of Rheumatic Illnesses with Medical Bathing Salts from the Dead Sea", Dr. Paul Engel (Sanatorium Clinic of the City of Mayenbad, Bad Walsee, FRG). Published in Acta Medica Empirica, 31, 374 (April 1982).

(3). "Salt from the Promised Land Help Psoriasis Patients" Dr. J. Arndt, Published in Arztliche Praxis, Vol 34, No. 48 1920. Republished 6/15/82.

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