Halotherapy, speleotherapy, speleoclimatotherapy – are these the same or different notions?
Halotherapy is a method of healing under conditions of the reproduced microclimate of salt speleohospitals. Speleotherapy (ST) is the use of the microclimate of underground caves for the curing purposes. The term “speleotherapy” should denote underground therapy only. This term denotes a therapy in subterranean speleohospitals of various origins (karst, salt, having underground lakes, mineral springs). Titles such as “speleoclimatotherapy” and “sylvinite speleotherapy” appeared in usage to denote a therapy in which the walls of rooms are faced with salt tiles of sylvinite (containing, among other things, potassium salts) which differ from halotherapeutic rooms in which natural halite salt is applied to the walls (containing chiefly sodium chloride). But the principal difference is that speleoclimatotherapy does not involve special equipment saturating the air with a salt aerosol and air ions. Practically, structures without any aerosol salt generators are construction projects, and the
