Comments on the Hot Spring Therapy
- VernacularTitle:温泉作用に関する考察
- Author:
Shoichi YAMAGATA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:The Journal of The Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine
1976;40(1-2):17-24
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
This report deals with the clinical and experimental study in the patients who visited the hot springs in the district of Tohoku such as Hanamaki hot spring (Iwate Prefecture), Ooyu hot spring (Akita Prefecture), Sukawa hot spring (Iwate Prefecture) since 1939 in order to study the therapeutic effect of hot spring.
It was found that the bathing therapy accelerates the function of liver and reticulo-endothelial system and normalizes the impaired states due to its stimulative effect. Statistical analysis revealed that the patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases show the highest population among the patients investigated in this series.
Psychosomatic examination disclosed that about 1/3 of the patients examined at Sukawa hot spring was suffering from gastrointestinal psychosomatic neurosis and responded well to combined balneotherapy and autogenic training. It was concluded that those therapeutic effect is due probably to the stimulative effect of bathing therapy on autonomic nervous system and the environmental release from the social and mental stress.
