General Survey of Balneal Treatment in the Tohoku Region
- VernacularTitle:東北地方温泉地における湯治概況調査成績
- Author:
Takashi SUGIYAMA
;
Michio KAYABA
;
Masahiko KATAGATA
;
Chaiseng CHIA
;
Yoshimasa YABE
;
Hiroshi HAYASHI
;
Hiroshi ITO
;
Tatsuo TOKAIRIN
;
Mamoru SAKURAI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:The Journal of The Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine
1962;26(3-4):139-148
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
The results of our general and medical surveys are summarized as follows:
1) The visitors to this spa are inhabitants of Yamagata prefecture, farmers being the largest in number.
2) Considering the fact that more than half the number of spa visitors come here with therapeutic or convalescing purpose, this spa may be said to be a spa to which visitors come with the sole object of curative treatment.
3) Visitors came for the treatment of common cold, hypertension, neuralgia and diseases of the stomach and intestines respetively from the frequency of diseases. The fact that the visitors with cold were largest in number was probably because of the prevalence of common cold at the time of our survey.
4) Half the number of spa visitors stayed for about 2 weeks, and most of them took bath four to five times a day for curative treatment.
5) 40.1% spa visitors drank hot spring water for curative treatment. Which incidence is higher than that in our previous reports for other Tohoku Area.
6) Only 6.1% of the visitors came to the spa under doctor's direction. Those who noted the bathing reaction: anorexia, feeling of weakness etc., were 23.1%
7) In the tubeless gastric analysis (Gastrotest) scarcely any change was observable for successive drinking of hot spring water.
8) In most cases the oral temperature measured at the time of bathing in this spa never returned to the value before bathing for two hours and the feeling of warmth remained for a long time. This is probably due to the chemical properties of the spring waters and proper treatment after bathing.
