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pelotherapy

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pelotherapy
[pē′lōther′əpē]
the treatment of certain conditions with baths or packs of mud, peat, or earth on part or all of the body surface.


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95 Paperback RM811 Mihina (massage school director, Providence Institute, Arizona) and Anderson present this illustrated text for massage therapists and those in similar work which introduces procedures for incorporating hydrotherapy, exfoliations, pelotherapy (the therapeutic use of mud, clays, peat, and salts), thalassotherapy (the use of seawater) and aromatherapy into practice.
Smearing mud onto the body, otherwise known as Pelotherapy, is said to provide cleansing and detoxing for the skin, ease muscle pain and arthritic or rheumatic conditions.
 
 
 
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