speleotherapy
English
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]speleotherapy (uncountable)
- The use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma.
- Coordinate term: halotherapy
- 2017, Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, editors, Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes, Springer, →ISBN, page 220:
- The beneficial effect of salt (speleotherapy) was reported by the Polish doctor F. Bochkowsky in 1843. Speleotherapy is based on the in-patient treatment in salt caves possessing a specific microclimate.
Translations
[edit]the use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma
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