Yu.A. Rakhmanin1, N.A. Egorova1,
R.I. Mihajlova1,
I.N. Ryzhova1, M.G. Kochetkova1, A.A. Stepanov2
1 Federal State Budgetary Institution
“Centre for Strategic Planning and Management
of Biomedical Health Risks” of the Federal Medical Biologic
al Agency, 10/1, Pogodinskaya str., Moscow, 119121, Russia
2 ANO "Center for Biotic Medicine",
Zemlyanoy
Val str., d. 46, Moscow, 105064, Russia
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ABSTRACT. The
first and second parts of the review present information about
silicon-containing mineral waters in the southern regions of the Russian
Federation. The results of therapeutic and prophylactic use in clinical and
sanatorium-resort conditions of mineral waters of the Essentuki group -
"Essentuki No. 2 Novaya", "Essentuki No. 4 and No. 17",
mineral waters of the Caucasian Mineral Waters region, such as "Smirnovskaya",
"Slavyanovskaya", "Narzan", "Sulfate Narzan",
mineral water "Teberda", produced in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic,
mineral waters from a thermal spring in the village of Yaroslavskaya and the
resort "Khadyzhensk" in the Krasnodar Territory. Their healing
effects have been noted in many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver,
gallbladder and biliary tract, kidneys and urinary tract, gynecological
diseases, metabolic disorders and hormonal imbalances, pathological conditions
of the respiratory system of a non-tuberculous nature. The present, third part
of the review concerns siliceous mineral waters of the Far Eastern territories
of the Russian Federation - the Khabarovsk and Kamchatka Territories, the
Jewish Autonomous Region, the Republic of Buryatia. Information is given from
scientific publications on the results of medical and balneological use of
mineral waters of the Annensky, Tumninsky, Kuldursky, Arshansky, Pushchinsky,
Ketkinsky, deposits, thermal water "Zhemchug", waters of thermal
springs of the Barguzin valley, as well as sources of Goryachinsky, Nilova
Pustyn, Pitatelevsky and Shumak mineral water springs, which contain
biologically active silicic acid in high concentrations. According to published
data, these mineral waters are used externally with good effect in the form of
baths, swimming in pools, inhalations, and inside for drinking with a wide
range of pathologies of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract,
liver and kidneys, skin diseases, unequal, bone-muscular, endocrine systems, respiratory
organs, metabolic disorders, diseases of the female genital area. The results
of the analyzed works contribute to the identification of the role of silicon
in the biological effect of silicon-containing mineral waters of complex
composition and draw attention to this microelement as a valuable natural
healing factor.
KEYWORDS: mineral waters containing the microelement
silicon, use in the treatment and prevention of human diseases.