Post by L Roebuck on Nov 14, 2005 6:47:52 GMT -5
Unique relief from asthma deep underground in Ukraine
(AFP)
13 November 2005
SOLOTVINO, Ukraine - Driving by the village of Solotvino in western Ukraine, you’d never know that a unique healing haven for lung ailments lies deep beneath its dreary landscape of Soviet-era buildings and trash heaps.
Three hundred meters (985 feet) underground, hundreds of people with respiratory illnesses leave their ailments behind in the cavernous tunnels carved out of a working salt mine, the walls glistening with salt deposits.
“There are children who get one or two treatments and they forget about asthma,” says Yaroslav Chonka, the chief doctor at Ukraine’s allergological hospital in Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region, on the border with Romania, which has been treating patients with this alternative method since 1976.
Article: tinyurl.com/9m2h7
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com
(AFP)
13 November 2005
SOLOTVINO, Ukraine - Driving by the village of Solotvino in western Ukraine, you’d never know that a unique healing haven for lung ailments lies deep beneath its dreary landscape of Soviet-era buildings and trash heaps.
Three hundred meters (985 feet) underground, hundreds of people with respiratory illnesses leave their ailments behind in the cavernous tunnels carved out of a working salt mine, the walls glistening with salt deposits.
“There are children who get one or two treatments and they forget about asthma,” says Yaroslav Chonka, the chief doctor at Ukraine’s allergological hospital in Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region, on the border with Romania, which has been treating patients with this alternative method since 1976.
Article: tinyurl.com/9m2h7
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com
