The cures of sun are the most effective form of systematizing the heliotherapy. They can be carried out in different environmental or climatic areas, either in the sea or in the mountain, and they can also be differentiated as seasonal, because it is not the same thing to carry out them in winter or in summer..

The Sun is source of life and energy, and that?s why the Heliotherapy, as therapeutic mean, has been used by the man from the far distant past. The therapeutic action of the solar radiation is known and used in Medicine to combat and to treat different illnesses and its beneficial effect is recognized by all the experts.

However, for some time now, the sun and mainly the ultraviolet radiations are criticized and questioned , due to the abuse that is made of them and to the noxious effects that it may causes in the skin, if they are received with excess and without the due protection.

In spite of everything, the heliotherapy continues having its indications and the beneficial effects of the sun on the health are evident and very advisable since the solar radiation has on our organism a direct effect on the skin and a general repercussion on the metabolism and the organic and physical functions.

Their direct action produces four very loud changes on the skin: increasing of the local temperature, increase of the peripheric circulation of the blood, increase of the perspiration due stimulus of the sweat glands and increase of the pigmentation due stimulus of the malanocitos and increased secretion of the melanina.

CURES OF SUN

The cures of sun are the most effective form of systematizing the heliotherapy. They can be carried out in different environmental or climatic areas, either in the sea or in the mountain, and you can also differ as seasonal, because it is not the same thing to carry out them in winter or in summer.

The most traditional form of locating them is that of the progressive exhibition of corporal surface in the time to the action of the solar radiations. This way, the first sessions are of short duration and they go increasing in a progressive way (of ten minutes at one hour). In turn, the exposed corporal surface is every bigger day, until embracing at the end of the treatment the whole corporal surface.

The climatic conditions of the mountain above the a thousand meters, less atmospheric pressure, air purer and bigger environmental dryness, they make that the solar radiations are more intense and more effective in these regions. For this condition, the mountain helioterapia has been used for the treatment of the lung illnesses, mainly for the treatment of the tuberculosis; the illnesses of the blood and all those processes that study with a decrease of the defenses of the organism.

The mountain cures, in general, improve the metabolism, they stimulate the appetite, they make the most resistant organism and they provide more vitality and defenses.

The climate of the costs is regulated by the action neutralizante of the sea. The temperatures have less oscillations and they are more constant, the humidity is very high and the solar radiations are very rich in ultraviolet radiations, due to the intense brightness and to the diffusion of the light.

These conditions make that the helium-marine cure is an ideal method to treat illnesses of the skin. So much the psoriasis, as the eczema atópico or the dermatitis atópica improves in a remarkable way the symptoms of dryness cutaneous descamación, pigmentation and pruritus.

The rachitis and the osteomalacia are two pathological entities that are presented during the childhood and that they are preventive and healing form with a reasonable exhibition to the solar radiations in the marine atmosphere. These radiations are those in charge of synthesizing the vitamins D in the organism through the skin and this is the vitamin that intervenes in the fixation of the calcium in the bony fabric.

The ulcerous lesions, the wounds of bad scaring, the scars and the conditions of convalescence of different illnesses usually improve in a quicker way during the sessions of marine helioterapia.

Finally, many dysfunctions of the psychological behavior, neurosis, depression, anxiety and the insomnia can even improve during the cures of marine heliotherapy.

Mayte Suárez Santos. Specialist in Medicine and Termalismo.
Member of the French Society of Termalismo and Talasoterapia for the Buco-dental Health.