Crimean nature is rich and plentiful. Crimea is washed by the Black and Azov Seas, which are connected with each other by the Kerch channel. They stretch out in three parallel ridges from southwest to northeast by 180 km, from Sevastopol to Feodosiya.
Mountain forests serve as original filters and enrich the atmosphere, enormous reservoirs are clean, saturated by fitoncides, and air and forms a special curative climate.
More than 120 sources of mineral water of various chemical compositions are known on the Crimean peninsula: from hydro-carbonated-sodium to chloride-sulphide.
Water at the resorts are used for the treatment of:
Crimea has over 50 estuary lakes rich in deposits of medicinal, silt, and knoll mud. Mud-treatment is very effective. Medicinal mud contains inorganic matter, organic acids, salts, microelements, antibiotics, hormones and many other components. All of this renders strong medical effects during the treatment of illnesses of joints, bones, gynecological, and skin diseases. Brine-water from the salt lakes, containing very high concentrations of various salts (8-10 times more than marine water), also possesses remarkable medical properties.
The main Crimean resorts and medical indications:
Alupka – bone tuberculosis and lung illnesses.
Alushta - diseases of respiratory tracts, as well as nervous and cordial-vascular systems.
Eupatorium brine renders effects to muscles, bones, joints, and the peripheral nervous system. It possesses wonderful restorative properties and assists in pain relief.
Saki mineral springs with thermal hydro-carbonated is used for the treatment of the alimentary canal and metabolism.
Feodosiya - diseases of the alimentary canal, nervous system, blood circulation, chronic illnesses of the kidneys, biliary tracts, and pancreatic diabetes.
Yalta - chronic diseases of the lungs, bronchial asthma, hypertension, ischemic heart trouble, cerebral atherosclerosis, illnesses of the kidneys, and neurological diseases.
