Zdrojewicz Zygmunt, Belowska-Bień Kinga
Klinika Endokrynologii i Diabetologii Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
Postepy Hig Med Dosw (Online). 2004 Mar 8;58:150-7.
Spa health care became a medical discipline just as the development of other sciences created sufficient grounds for it. The basic and oldest method of spa treatment is balneotherapy. Among the medicinal waters, those with radon arouse the most controversy, these being the source of ionizing radiation. Radon is the one of the most important natural sources of radiation on earth. The exact mechanism of radon's effect on the human body is not completely understood. The hormesis theory is the best explanation of the advantageous biological effect of ionizing radiation in low doses. Radon significantly influences free oxygen radical transformations, nucleic acid repair, immunological processes, etc. It is a rare gas and does not react chemically with any compound in the body. It is known that radon is effective in treating chronic pain syndromes, endocrine disorders, and diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
正如其他科学的发展为其创造了充分条件一样，温泉保健成为了一门医学学科。温泉治疗最基本、最古老的方法是浴疗法。在药用水中，含氡的水引发的争议最大，因为它们是电离辐射的来源。氡是地球上最重要的天然辐射源之一。氡对人体影响的确切机制尚未完全明了。兴奋效应理论是对低剂量电离辐射有利生物效应的最佳解释。氡对自由基转化、核酸修复、免疫过程等有显著影响。它是一种稀有气体，在体内不会与任何化合物发生化学反应。众所周知，氡对治疗慢性疼痛综合征、内分泌失调以及循环和呼吸系统疾病有效。
