BALNEOTHERAPY IN CLUJ COUNTY, ROMANIA

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BALNEOTHERAPY IN CLUJ COUNTY, ROMANIA

• LASZLO IRSAY M.D., LIVIU POP M.D.
• REHABILITATION CLINIC CLUJ, ROMANIA

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• in the centre of Transylvania
• surrounded by the Carpathians

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• the socio-economical changes of the past decades
  had a negative effect on most of the romanian
  spas
• there are almost 2000 springs in Romania trace
  water (cold and thermal), carbonated, alkaline,
  salted, iodide, ferruginous, sulfurous, sulfated,
  radioactive ? drinking cures and for external use
• geologically most of the spas in Transylvania
  are formed on a continuous salt layer
• bioclimates 3 major types
• medical muds (pelloids)
• salt-mine
• talasotherapy (Black-Sea)

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RESORTS IN CLUJ COUNTY

• Cojocna
• Mica
• Ocna Dejului
• Sân Marghita
• Someseni
• Baita
• Leghia
• Turda (Potaissa)
• Fântânele-Belis

• only a few are functional
• all of them are seasonal (from May to September)
• it could be a good choice for investment

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Cojocna

• 20 kms from Cluj-Napoca
• 2 lakes generated from the collapsing of a
  salt-mine in total surface of 2600-2700 m2,
  13.5-50 m deep
• highly concentrated salt water 133 g/l (Black
  Sea 15.5 g/l Dead Sea 330 g/l)

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Cojocna
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Someseni

• its part of the city Cluj-Napoca
• a typical example for a ruined resort
• in 1965 there were 27 springs, now only 4 are
  functional

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very rich and complex waters salted, sulfurated,
ferruginous, alkaline- with a total
mineralization between 2.64-86.78 g/l- muds
(water consistency approx. 83.2 g)- protective
bioclimate
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patients never give up though
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TURDA Potaissa (latin)

• 30 kms from Cluj-Napoca, at 350 m altitude
• Romans (Traianus emperor ) exploited salt here
• nowadays is a saline mine, used only for
  therapeutic purposes (and concerts)

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• like in Cojocna, there are salt lakes which was
  formed after a wall of the mine collapsed

• total mineralizations 19 to 225 g/l
• phenomenon of heliothermia
• pelloids

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THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES,INDICATIONS

• for external use
• crenotherapic techniques
• mud packing
• salt mine
• ? rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders,
  motor neuron disorders
• ? digestive system disorders
• ? recreation

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Solving the problems..
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Solving the problems..
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Solving the problems..
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but
in raising every time we fall. (Confucius)