Mud lake. Golubitskoe mud lake. What diseases does mud treat?
What do you know about peloid therapy? Peloid therapy- This the oldest method therapy therapeutic mud what is popularly called mud therapy. This healing technique has been known since time immemorial and back in the 16th century. The Roman polymath writer Pliny wrote that on the Crimean land there is mud that can heal.
The Italians began to use mud as a method of treatment in the 16th century, and in Rus' they were able to discern mud only in the 18th century. Today mud therapy– a very popular method of therapy, and especially attracts tourists. In Russia there are more than 300 locations of healing mud, a considerable number of which prevail in Krasnodar region, or rather on the Taman Peninsula.
There are two types of medicinal mud on the Taman Peninsula: silt (mud lakes) and volcanic ( mud volcanoes). Composition and beneficial features these muds are different. They say that the mud from the lakes is more beneficial.
Mud lakes
Solenoye, Golubitskoye, Markitanskoye– mud lakes, which the village of Taman is rich in. – located in the south of the Taman Peninsula, with the largest reserves of healing mud than in Golubitsky and Markitansky. - located near the village of Golubitskaya, on the Sea of Azov. The healing mud of this lake is located in the middle of the lake at the very bottom, and you can only get to it by diving headlong into the very center of the lake. Markitanskoye Lake - located in the eastern part, 5 km from Taman, the reserves of this lake are not large, but very useful. In all three lakes it predominates great amount hydrogen sulfide, salts, bromine and iodine. Also on the Taman Peninsula you can count more than 30 mud volcanoes.
Salt Lake
Mud volcanoes
Tizdar, Hephaestus, Akhtanizovsky, Shugo– mud volcanoes, of which there are also many on the peninsula. is located on the territory of the “Island of Health” complex in the village of Za Rodinu. Entrance to the complex is paid.
Tizdar volcano
Akhtanizovskaya Sopka is located in the village of Akhtanizovskaya. Free admission. The area is not equipped.
Situated on Rotten Mountain near Temryuk. Visiting is free, but using the shower is charged.
crater on Rotten Mountain
Located next to the village of Varenikovskaya. This is one of the largest volcanoes in Kuban. There is a fee to visit.
Visiting some muds is paid, others are free. You can read more about this by following the links in the article that interest you.
Indications for mud therapy
Diseases of the digestive system, metabolic diseases, diseases of the female and male reproductive system, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, diseases of the nervous system, vascular diseases and others...
Contraindications for mud therapy
Neoplasms, including benign (fibroids, mastopathy), blood diseases, bleeding, immunodeficiency syndromes, diseases of the cardiovascular system, epilepsy, severe general atherosclerosis, varicose veins, pregnancy and others...
Mud volcanoes, lakes and other attractions of the Taman Peninsula
Taman Peninsula- not only a healing place, but also perfect place family vacation. Here you will find a lot of exciting, interesting and entertaining things for yourself. If you are planning a vacation in the village of Taman, be sure to visit the mud lakes, but remember the contraindications to this method of treatment.
How to get to Taman by car.
For those traveling from Moscow, we advise you to use a detour route: Along the M4 highway in the Kislyakovskaya area, turn onto the secondary road to the right. The road is of decent quality and there are significantly fewer cars. Thus, your route will look like this: Kislyakovskaya - Leningradskaya - Kanevskaya (it’s better to take the bypass road) - Timashevsk - Staronizhesteblievskaya - Poltavskaya - Slavyansk-on-Kuban - Anastasievskaya (bypass) - Temryuk, then to your destination.
Detour route: Moscow – Taman (marked with a red line)
The distance from Moscow to Taman is 1556 km.
If you decide to vacation in Anapa, Vityazevo or other nearby resort areas. You can easily get to the Taman Peninsula as part of an excursion or by your own car.
The distance from Anapa to Taman is 80 km.
From Moscow
By car. Along the M4 highway. Distance 1460 km. Travel time – 17.00 hours.
By plane. From Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports on flights Moscow - Anapa. Then by bus to Temryuk, and from Temryuk to Golubitskaya or by taxi (55 km). Travel time 0.50-1.20 hours.
By long-distance train. From the Kursky and Kazansky railway stations by train "Moscow - Novorossiysk" to the station "Tonnelnaya" or by train "Moscow - Anapa" to Anapa. Travel time is from 22.00 to 28.00 hours. Next - by taxi (from Tonnelnaya - 90 km, from Anapa - 55). Travel time – 0.50-2.00 hours.
From Temryuk
By car. Distance 12 km. Travel time – 0.15 hours.
By bus. Shuttle Buses No. 105 and minibuses No. 105A every 10-20 minutes. Travel time – 1.10-1.30 hours.
Walk along Golubitskaya
You can start your walk around the village near the famous for its healing mud Golubitsky mud lake, which is located right behind the large central beach. The dimensions of the lake are 150 by 100 m. And it is separated from the sea by just over 50 m. Black viscous medicinal silt is located under water, in the center of the lake. But this reservoir is shallow - up to 1.5 m, so it is convenient for both adults and children. Mud with a high content of bromine, iodine and hydrogen sulfide is used to treat diseases of the joints, skin, radiculitis, pyelonephritis and some other diseases. You can swim in the lake, or you can take air baths nearby by making mud applications.
Golubitskoe mud lake
If you walk from the lake towards the Central Beach, you will come to crocodile farm. It is located between Kurortnaya and Sovetskaya streets. Here you can see alligators, caimans, pythons, turtles and lizards, or watch crocodiles being fed. A ticket for an adult costs 600 rubles, a child ticket costs 500 rubles.
Crocodile farm
Opposite the central beach in the sea, not far from the shore, a dark-colored island is visible. Its height is about 2 m, its length is up to 100 m. This is the famous Golubitsky mud volcano. It is active and erupts every 6-8 years. Last eruption was in the Velvet season– in September 2011. The sea suddenly began to boil and began to throw up dark streams of mud. The volcano's emissions were very strong - they reached 50 m and lasted about 40 minutes. Before this, the volcano “awakened” in the summer of 2008.
Golubitsky mud volcano
Observations of the volcano and recording of its activity have been carried out since the time of Catherine II. The first time the eruption was filmed was in 1994.
A further walk around the village continues to the local Exotic park. To get there you need to walk about 2 km along Kurortnaya Street. Children will love this tourist attraction. The exotic park contains rare animals from all over the world - flying foxes, snakes of different sizes and colors, crocodiles, turtles and lizards. For children there is a “contact zone” where you can hold a rabbit, pet a lamb or chickens. In the evenings, an extreme show is held in the park - a dance of a trainer with crocodiles and a cobra.
Exotic Park
The exotic park is open from 10.00 to 22.00. A ticket for an adult costs 350 rubles, for children – 250 rubles. Children under 3 years old can enter the park for free. Photography and video shooting of animals is also free. You need to pay extra if you want to feed the animals.
Near the Exotic Park is Golubitsky dolphinarium(Kurortny Boulevard, 3). Its performances include bottlenose dolphins, fur seals and sea lion. They are trained to perform many funny tricks - “singing”, “dancing” and performing acrobatic acts.
Dolphinarium "Nemo"
The Dolphinarium is open daily from 12.00 to 16.00, except Mondays. The ticket costs 500 rubles. And children under 5 years old can enter the show for free.
Near the dolphinarium, you can finish your walk through the village of Golubinskaya. But if your vacation in Golubinskaya falls in the middle of summer - July or August, it’s still worth visiting the picturesque lotus valley. Organized excursions are taken to it from the village on comfortable fast small boats. The place where these amazingly beautiful flowers grow is located in the floodplains of the Akhtanizovsky estuary. A walk to the Lotus Valley is a great opportunity to drive with the breeze through the expanses of the estuary and enjoy the view of beautiful exotic flowers.
Lotus Valley
Healing mud is a valuable resource that nature generously endowed the lands of Crimea with. On this moment About forty similar deposits are known on the peninsula.
Numerous scientific studies have proven the effectiveness of using silt mud for health purposes. Today this medical direction has received official name- balneology. In Crimean sanatoriums and boarding houses, therapeutic mud is used to eliminate various diseases: arthritis, radiculitis, dermatitis, the genitourinary system, and others.
What is special about the mud lakes of Crimea?
According to numerous studies, Crimean mud is of excellent quality, environmental friendliness and effective healing properties. They belong to the category of sulfide-silt deposits.
Most of the healing raw materials in Crimea are extracted from estuary mud lakes. Each of them has unique features, both in composition and in terms of natural beauty:
Lake Chokrak. Located near Kerch, it is considered one of the best mud deposits in the world. Salt water contains no pesticides, heavy metals, or harmful chemical compounds. The use of Chokrak mud helps restore the nervous system, eliminate diseases of the genitourinary system, musculoskeletal system, and other ailments.
Lake Donuzlav is the deepest mud lake in Crimea, 27 meters deep. At the bottom of the reservoir, located on Cape Tarkhankut, there are multi-meter deposits of silt deposits.
Lake Moinaki in Evpatoria. The composition of the mud from this deposit is similar to the characteristics of the silt of the Donuzlavsky estuary. In both versions, the mud contains special biostimulants that help strengthen blood vessels, rejuvenate the skin, and get rid of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, reproductive system, and respiratory organs.
Saki Lake. At the bottom of a very shallow and very salty estuary lies black mud, which is not inferior in properties to raw materials from the famous Dead Sea. The silt deposits are covered with paw (covering water), which also has healing properties.
Lake Sasyk-Sivash. This reservoir, 14 km long, is famous for its exceptional beauty. Its waters are colored in an unusual pink tone. The reason for this is pink salt, which has healing properties. Air saturated with healing salt and iodine helps restore the health of the respiratory system.
In addition to the mentioned deposits, it is worth noting other mud lakes of Crimea. The Evpatoria system includes Adzhibaychikskoye, Krubloye, Airchinskoye, Oyburgskoye lakes, lakes Bogaily and Krugloye. In the Kerch region there are Tobechik, Ulunlar, and Koyash lakes.
Note to tourists
In addition to lakes, there are mud volcanoes on the peninsula. The most famous are Jau-Tepe and Bulganak hills. Deposits of medicinal clays were discovered in the area of the village of Sturmoe and near Sevastopol.
Planning wellness holiday in Crimea, it is worth paying attention to other areas:
climatotherapy;
speleotherapy;
landscape therapy;
thermotherapy;
hydrotherapy;
other types of health procedures.
Detailed information about various types treatment natural resources It is possible from the staff of specialized boarding houses. Data posted on thematic portals will allow you to obtain preliminary information.
The Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory has its own attraction - there is an incredibly beautiful reservoir. Golubitskoye Lake is located next to Central beach and attracts tourists from all over the world.
The healing mud lake is located a few meters from the seashore. All tourists traveling around the world strive to visit here. Krasnodar region. The mud deposits of Lake Golubitskoe are well known and are used for medical purposes in hospitals and sanatoriums of Anapa and the Taman Peninsula.
Rest with benefit
Golubitskoye Lake is small: its length is 500 meters, width - 150 meters. In winter, the depth reaches only 1.5-1.8 meters, and in summer the waters evaporate, their level drops to 80 centimeters. The reservoir does not dry up completely only because it is connected to the Sea of Azov.
The composition of lake and sea water is similar, but in a smaller reservoir the liquid is more mineralized: in summer it is exponentially increased to 40 g/l due to constant evaporation, in winter it is reduced to 10 g/l due to its filling with melt water and rain.
Bottom mud is formed as a result of the oxidation and decomposition of dead microorganisms that entered the lake from Sea of Azov. The substance is rich in iodine, bromine, calcium. Its specific smell is due to its saturation with hydrogen sulfide. The mud of Lake Golubitskoye has healing properties, and while relaxing on the Azov coast, you can not only sunbathe and swim, but also improve your health.
Black mud is good for the skin and joints. It is enough to coat yourself with it for 10-15 minutes to notice the effect. No tourist will refuse the opportunity to make a mud mask for the whole body to try it medicinal properties, or to take a photo for memory.
It is worth noting that black mud is not applied to the chest in the area of the heart.
You can wash off the creamy black mass from your body by plunging into sea water.
The greatest benefit comes from mud raised from the bottom in June and July. It is transported to sanatoriums in dry form.
Golubitskoye Lake is equipped for swimming. To walk along its surface, you can rent pedal boats to add physical activity to the mud therapy.
Address: Stanitsa GolubitskayaLocation on the map
The Dolzhanskoe mud lake stretches along the Taganrog Bay in a huge gray-black isosceles triangle. The shores of the mud lake are low and flat and are very convenient for swimming. The length of the isosceles sides is 700 meters, the length of the third side is 600 meters. It belongs to the so-called dam lakes and in the past was an estuary. Currently, a narrow, low spit of land separates the reservoir from the Taganrog Bay and a dam (road) from the Sea of Azov.
Therapeutic mud (peloid) is a greasy silt that accumulates at the bottom of salty estuaries in the village of Dolzhanskaya. It consists of a mineral base (earth, sand, clay), overgrown and glued together with gelatinous organic substances. Dirt is formed as a result of the decomposition of living organisms without access to oxygen. Sulfur, which is part of proteins, cannot be completely oxidized and is released in the form of hydrogen sulfide. Therapeutic mud smells of hydrogen sulfide, but the concentration of this gas in it is low, so the complex smell of the peloid does not cause disgust.
During strong southern and south-western winds, the water in the sea rises greatly and the waters of the sea overflow into it. The lake has an oval shape, 2 km long and 700 meters wide. In hot weather, 96% of the water supply evaporates. In dry years the lake dries up completely. In spring, autumn and during precipitation, in summer it is usually filled with water. Groundwater brings sulfuric acid salts into the lake. The waters of the Taganrog Bay are chloride salts. Therapeutic mud occurs in deposits along the banks of the reservoir. Its reserves, despite the long-term production period, are relatively large. By appearance The dirt is an oily, creamy, plastic, black mass with a strong odor of hydrogen sulfide.
The structure is dirt Dolzhanskoye Lake is similar to the mud of lakes Saki, Mainak (Crimea), and Tambukan (Caucasian Mineral Waters) and is composed of mud solution - 63.84%, crystalline skeleton - 34.4%, and colloidal complex - 1.76%. In the solid crystalline phase, mud consists of sulfates, carbonates and chlorides of sodium, calcium and magnesium. The colloidal complex consists mainly of colloidal hydrate of iron sulfide in the amount of 8.5 - 15.9 grams per kilogram of dry mud. This hydrate, as well as hydrates of aluminum oxide and iron, give it medicinal properties. According to mechanical analysis, dirt contains up to 74.1% of tiny particles with a diameter of less than 0.01 mm. All these indicators characterize it as high-quality, therapeutic. Mud is collected in the summer months for the whole year, delivered in containers, and stored in mud storage facilities under a layer of mineral water. Treatment is carried out using the method of applications (mud cakes) and compresses.
Indications for mud therapy
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system;
rheumatism (not earlier than 6-7 months after an acute attack);
chronic rheumatoid polyarthritis;
infectious and nonspecific polyarthritis; dystrophic (non-infectious) polyarthritis;
residual effects after joint injuries;
osteomyelitis;
diseases of the genitourinary system in men;
diseases of the female genital organs, including chronic inflammatory processes and infertility;
spastic constipation;
chronic hepatocholecystitis;
adhesive processes.
Many diseases and consequences of injuries of the peripheral nervous system, especially: radiculitis, plexitis, polyneuritis, neuritis - infectious, rheumatic, due to poisoning; consequences of polio in children.
Contraindications for mud therapy
Bleeding of any origin;
active tuberculosis of any organs and tissues;
tumors;
elevated temperature;
pregnancy of all stages;
extreme exhaustion of the body and loss of strength;
impaired cardiac compensation, angina pectoris, mitral stenosis, atrial fibrillation, severe atherosclerosis, etc.
The course of mud therapy is 7-10 days. Residents of the village of Dolzhanskaya and vacationers hold a local carnival in the summer - they smear themselves with mud from the lake and dance in circles through the streets. Everything - from small to large. As part of the carnival, a Congress of Witches and a presentation of Dolzhan traditional medicine are held.