page_title: Mud bath
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Mud bath / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Atanasovsko Reserve, a mud bathing site near Burgas Български: Атанасавското Езеро покрай град Бургас, място за калолечение Русский: Атанасовское озеро возле Бургаса, известное место грязелечения
context_page_description: A mud bath is a bath of mud, commonly from areas where hot spring water can combine with volcanic ash. Mud baths have existed for thousands of years, and can be found now in high-end spas in many countries of the world.
  Mud baths come from many sources:
  lakes
  saltwater sea
  hot springs
  mud volcano
  Mud baths in the United States are mostly found at the resorts in California and Miami Beach, Florida. The mud is a combination of local volcanic ash, imported Canadian peat and naturally heated mineral waters. Historically, the mud bath treatment has been used for centuries in Eastern and Western European spas as a way to relieve arthritis.
  In Romania, Lake Techirghiol is famous for treatments with mud baths. The lake's hypersaline environment is due to the successive evaporation of sea water that remained in its basin after a tectono-erosive phase exhaustion created a fluvial-marine firth and the lake's connection to the sea closed. The accumulation of salts in the water is also a result of a semiarid climate with higher temperatures in summer, leading to pronounced evaporation.
context_section_description: Balneotherapy
  Bath salts
  Heubad
  Mud wrap
  Peloid
  Wallowing in animals
caption: "Mud bathing site" (according to the sign) on Bulgaria's Lake Atanasovsko
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