THERAPEUTIC AND PREVENTIVE USE
OF MINERAL WATERS CONTAINING SILICON
IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (Literature review)
Part 4. FAR EASTERN AND SIBERIAN
FEDERAL DISTRICT
ABSTRACT.
For many years,
siliceous mineral waters have been studied in scientific institutions of the
country as sources of health, and their therapeutic and prophylactic properties
have been tested in various nosological forms in order to facilitate the choice
and prescription by a doctor of exactly the mineral water that is most
effective in treating his disease. Studies of the balneological properties of
mineral waters containing the microelement silicon as a biologically active component,
the assessment of their sanatorium and resort potential, are important due to
the lack of data proving the participation and characterizing the role of
silicon in the mechanisms of action of siliceous mineral waters of complex
composition. This, the 4th part of the review, is devoted to the consideration
of data on the results of medical use and the features of the effect on the
body of silicon-containing mineral waters from deposits located in the Far East
(Primorsky Territory, Zabaikalye Territory, Magadan and Amur Regions) and
Siberian (Republics of Tyva and Khakassia, Kemerovo Region) federal districts. In a number of studies in
resort and clinical conditions, a positive effect of these waters on the human
body was revealed in the treatment of diseases of the digestive,
cardiovascular, nervous, bone-cartilaginous and urinary systems, in the
prevention of renal pathology and nephropathy, in the treatment of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma. According to the analyzed
data, siliceous mineral waters from a number of sources of the Far East and
Siberia have an anti-inflammatory effect, improve cellular nutrition processes,
facilitate the removal of waste substances from the body, have an
immunomodulatory effect at the local level and enhance reparative-regenerative
processes. It can be noted that with numerous and various favorable changes in
the body of patients, neither internal (drinking) nor external (water
procedures, inhalations, irrigation) use of silicon-containing mineral waters
led to the development of any undesirable side effects. Obviously, the
diversity and uniqueness of the composition of mineral waters in general and
silicon-containing waters in particular determine the almost unlimited
possibilities of their medical use.
KEYWORDS: silicon-containing mineral waters, positive effects of medical use.
For citation: Rakhmanin Yu.A., Egorova N.A., Mihajlova R.I., Ryzhova I.N., Kochetkova M.G., Stepanov A.A. Therapeutic and preventive use of mineral waters containing silicon in the Russian Federation (literature review). Part 4. Far Eastern and Siberian federal district. Trace elemets in medicine. 2024;25(1):16-23. DOI: 10.19112/2413-6174-2024-25-1-16-23