The role of SEP (Skin Electrical Parameters)  in the SPA Mudtherapy

Albina Pisani¹, Vincenzo Valenzi ², MC. Lucchetta¹, Pasquale Avino² ³, Josephine Campanella¹, Gioacchino Mennuni¹, Bruno Sordi⁴, Angelo Serio¹ Antonio Fraioli¹.

¹ Scuola di Specializzazione in  Idrologia Medica Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

² Bioscience Department, Telesio Galilei Academy

³  ISPELS Roma

⁴ Terme di Chianciano

Centro Sillene is a spa in Chianciano Terme, in Tuscany, Italy, where from several decades many people affected by arthrorheumatic  and liver diseases go to do mud bath and drink mineral water.

The use of the waters in this zone had its beginnings in antiquity.  Etruscans and Romans already utilized Acqua Santa, Sillene and Fucoli waters and built temples and luxurious thermal  buildings in the area.

The Lombards knew of their therapeutic  properties  and,  in the Middle Age, the people continued to have faith, even without an instruction in this regard, in the curative powers of the waters. 

The great development of Chianciano’s mineral water therapy activity began in 1915, when the Commune decided to hand over the management of the waters to the “Società delle Terme di Chianciano”.

Thanks to the managing class, to the always more numerous scientific publication that spread the results of the treatments and  to the choice of focusing, from the promotional point of view, on the mineral water-therapy-specialization, and on the treatment of hepatic disorders- that, at the end of the Forties, was to create the slogan “Chianciano, healthy liver”- the fame of Chianciano grew rapidly in the following years.

Nowadays, Chianciano ‘s therapy includes:

·         Mud and bath for osteoarthrosis  (Sillene water);

·         Aeorosol and inhalation for respiratory diseases (Acqua Santissima water);

·         Carbo-gaseous bath for circulation’s diseases (Sillene water);

·         Mineral water for chronic constipation (Fucoli water)

·         Mineral water and mud for hepatic disorders (Acqua Santa and Sillene waters).

Our work is focused on the hepatic mud therapy, consisting in an application, on  the hepatic zone, of a hot mud for 15 – 20 minutes. This therapy proved to give very good clinical results  in a large spectrum of liver and gall bladder diseases , like chronic hepatitis, functional disorders of the biliary tract and functional dyspepsia. Mud’s action seems to be the increase of liver functionality  and biliary downflow, with a general spasmlytic  activity; how this action could occur, it’s up till now  a mystery .

Chianciano hepatic mud comes from the interaction of a solid component, the virgin mud, with the rich mineral water Sillene  (T 38,5 °C, fixed residue 2956 mg/l, bicarbonate  816 mg/l, sulphate 1648 mg/l, calcium 680 mg/l, magnesium 150 mg/l); they are mixed and let stand  for six months in a tank, and the result is a mature mud, rich of mineral salts, precious microorganisms and algas. 

This final product is superior in quality to the initial components. 

Some clinical and laboratory data show that  Mud increases   ACTH and Beta endorphins serum levels,  but nobody knows how it acts on hepatic function . Some experimental data on  12 patients  give a new line of research in SPA therapy, connected to some change in bioelectrical function of organs and of the whole body.

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Fig.1. general increas of bioelectrica function in alla the 12 patients

Fig. 2.  6/12 resistance in liver patients to the arthroreumatic mud

We observed in the measures that  Mud used for liver disease in effect increases the bioelectrical status, with a fall of resistance, increase of current and of the bioelectrical power  W=VxI.

The graphics 1 below shows this strict correlation between liver mood  and improving of bioelectrical parameters, and performance status and liver function, as  patients that every year come back in Chianciano  referred (80/90%).

The application of a mud specific for arthrorheumatic diseases shows otherwise that in half of patients  (graphic 2) we have no bioelectrical improvement. So these bioelectrical measurements with SEP Analyzer

show  a  possible instruments to drive Spa therapy and contribute  to a better comprehension of  mechanism of  Mud therapy in Chianciano  .

Of course a lot of other fundamental and clinical researches  must be developed to find a clear mechanism  that underlies  bioelectrical interaction and Spa therapy.

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