Department of Chemical Technology and Ecology, Shakarim University, Semey, Kazakhstan.
Higher School of Natural Sciences, Astana International University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Environ Geochem Health. 2024 Jan 16;46(2):43. doi: 10.1007/s10653-023-01813-3.
In recent years, interest in natural therapeutic mud has been growing all over the world. This natural product has a positive therapeutic effect on the skin and has fewer side effects on the human body. There are more than 40 thousand salt lakes in Kazakhstan. Most of them have natural mud sources, the potential of which has not yet been fully explored. The review presents an analysis of the available information on the physical and chemical properties of the main sources of natural mud from salt lakes in Kazakhstan and Kazakh sanatoriums that use natural mud in the treatment. All available publications, presenting the systematic studies, were used for data analysis. A comparative analysis of the mineralization of water, brine, and silt in one reservoir shows that the mineralization of water is not always the least. The available data indicate a point and partial nature of peloid studies, e.g., inorganic composition of natural muds from Western and Southern Kazakhstan is well described in the literature. In turn, there is a lack of these data from Northern and Eastern Kazakhstan. Studies of peloids in these regions seem to be a promising direction of the future research for both local and world scientists. What is more, there is also a big gap in the analysis of organic matter of muds from the Kazakh lakes. Comparing the state of the art, i.e., the studies from other parts of Asia and Europe, the identification of the organic part of muds is another desirable direction as a potential source of biologically active compounds of natural origin.
近年来，全世界对天然治疗泥的兴趣日益浓厚。这种天然产品对皮肤有积极的治疗作用，对人体的副作用较小。哈萨克斯坦有超过 4 万个盐湖。它们大多有天然泥源，其潜力尚未得到充分开发。本文分析了哈萨克斯坦盐湖和哈萨克斯坦疗养院中天然泥的主要来源的物理和化学性质的现有信息，这些疗养院在治疗中使用天然泥。所有可用的出版物，提出了系统的研究，都用于数据分析。对一个水库中的水、盐水和淤泥的矿化度进行的比较分析表明，水的矿化度并不总是最低的。现有数据表明，对泥疗法的研究具有局部性和片面性，例如，来自哈萨克斯坦西部和南部的天然泥的无机成分在文献中已有很好的描述。而来自哈萨克斯坦北部和东部的这些数据则有所缺乏。对这些地区的泥疗法的研究似乎是未来当地和世界科学家研究的一个有前途的方向。更重要的是，对来自哈萨克斯坦湖泊的泥中有机物的分析也存在很大差距。与其他亚洲和欧洲地区的研究相比，鉴定泥中有机物是另一个理想的方向，因为它可能是天然生物活性化合物的潜在来源。
