Secrets of the Sand Bath

Shiva is a valley in the northwest city of Cairo with a distance less than 600 km. Communities have different languages with Egyptian society in general.

Historical relics remaining shows that they have had a high civilization since 3000 BC. There are sites such as Mount of the Dead (hill hoarding mummy), Haekal worship the god Ammon at the time of the dynasty pharaoh, Cleopatra pool, legacy of Alexander the Great, the ancient fortress of Siwa, and so forth.

Shiva society has inherited the knowledge of traditional medicine that continue to defend them until now. With traditional medicine, they can live a healthy life naturally without having to go to the doctor, health clinic and pharmacy. One method of treatment is a very unique way with a bath of sand that is heated by the sun to 45 degrees Celsius, even more.

"We're here never went to the doctor, also never buy the drugs that contain chemicals. We're seeing the natural way ie hot sand bath, "said Yousef, guide citizens Shiva to 50 students of Al-Azhar from Indonesia who tour in the valley of Shiva on July 6 last. Efficacy of this treatment method was to invite the attention of many people. So that not a few patients who come from outside the area of Shiva. "They come from far away to Shiva to seek treatment in a bath of sand," said Mushlih Nahidh, a student of Al-Azhar University in Cairo who had many times to Shiva.

Secrets of the sand bath

Yousef explained, according to the traditional health science of Shiva, the emergence of various diseases is due to the condition of the water element that is not healthy in the body. Therefore, water must be removed. And way more powerful for it is with hot sand bath in Hammam Raml (sand bath).

Sand bath is expected to be out 3 liters to 4 liters of water from the body through sweat. Along with that out various kinds of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis patient diidap, uric acid, structure, cholesterol, and others.

Yousef, a guide who speaks fluent English and Arabic would not let his guests Indonesia soluble curiosity. With pleasure he took them to the location of the hot sand baths.

Arriving at the location, there were no bathing pool, the river does not exist. That there are only dozens of tents lined up in the middle of the desert. In front of the tents can be seen several young men were digging sand up to a dozen holes with a depth of about 50 cm. Length wide enough to bury a human body.

About 10 minutes later, a pickup came with a bunch of people. And it turns out they are the patients who will conduct practice hot sand bath. One patient went into the hole. Her clothes were replaced with a towel to cover his private parts.

He took a position lying facing the sky. Then planted with sand that the heat reached 45 degrees Celsius. After his private parts completely covered by sand, wearing a towel that had been quietly withdrawn. Further burials continued until the limit of the neck. To avoid heat shock, the patient's head covered by a blanket that refuted with wood. However, her face still looks red sweat.

After burying one patient, the others took positions in the holes that are already available to the left of the first patient. Burial takes between 10 minutes to 15 minutes. After that patients were excluded from the hole, closed his private parts, then inserted into the camp, a distance of 1 meter from the hole to be rested.

The clumps of wet sand that marks the burial site indicate the number of levels of water coming out of the pores of the skin. Conceivably, if the water is removed from the patient's body around 3 liters to 4 liters in a span of 15 minutes, meaning he has a diet of up to 3 kg in a relatively very short! Want to try the practice?

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