The lake, which has a healing power, a surface of 4,4 hectares and a spring depth of 38 m is fed by springs, which are rich in minerals. Owing to the abundant water output of these springs the water changes totally in every three days. The oval lake flows in Lake Balaton at the southern end through a 10 m wide canal and the river Zala.

Owing to the geothermic energy the water temperature in the lake doesn’t decrease below 22 °C in winter and reaches the temperature of 35-38 °C in summer. The average temperature of 30,7 °C doesn’t influence your heat ecology and makes you calm and active.

The 33,9 hectare-forest around the lake defends against the wind, the incessantly steaming water cleans the air. That’s while the bathing people can stay in a milieu, which is poor in dust and allergenic substances. The people, who got tired in the work, can refresh themselves bodily and mental. In order to win the required healing effect you ought to stay in the water no longer, than 20-30 minutes for one occasion. After it a relaxation of half an hour is recommended. You don’t have to stay in the water more than altogether 1-1,5 hours a day. Owing to the continuous and more level streaming of the water the active ingredients spread evenly and the water temperature is almost the same at any point of the lake. The hydrostatic pressure of the water exerts a good influence on the limbs; the moving of the parts of the body becomes easier owing to the lifting power. The body surface is covered by small gas bubbles. The fine mud granules stimulate pleasant the skin, the streaming of water gives a pleasant, mild massage. The languid, floating feeling in the water, the swinging lotuses and the green foliage of the trees calm the nerve system and provide the psychic element of recovery. The medicinal water and mud which have come from the Pannon Sea which had existed more thousand years ago is suitable for the treatment of any rheumatic diseases and the illnesses of organs of locomotive.

Healing power

The medicinal water is rich in dissolved and gaseous substances in equal proportions. Thus it unifies the good qualities of medicinal waters, which contain carbonic acid, sulphur, calcium, magnesium and radon emanation. Beside the healing power of the antiphlogistic calcium and sedative magnesium, and vasodilator carbonic acid the carbonate changes the skin into velvet-like by magic, the noble gases induce the suprarenal capsule to produce more antiphlogistic hormones and the thyroid to make more bone-building hormones. In case of joint diseases, or osteoporosis the ill person can make his own condition better by his own hormones. During the more-week-cure the smegma secretion and the biorhythm become normal. Most important agent of medicinal water and mud is sulphur. In the rheumatic and locomotor diseases the sulphur content of gristle decreases that’s while the sulphureous medicinal water is a natural medicine for the joint diseases. The water has a good effect on the estrogen level of the organism; therefore it can be applied in gynecological diseases too. The hydrostatic pressure, which comes into being during bathing and the moving in every direction are ideal for the blood circulation, the pleasant temperature makes possible a longer bath. The medicinal mud, which covers the bed of the lake in a thick layer, is very important. It concentrates all the chemicals of medicinal water and multiplies its effect. The unique Héviz mud contains organic and inorganic matters evenly; the radium salts and reduced sulphides are extraordinary valuable.

The treatments produce not only momentary remission; they prevent the breakout of pains for several months. In this way the spring cure presents a painless Christmas to the rheumatic people. Owing to its good qualities the Héviz medicinal water it is suitable for not only healing, but for prevention, relaxation, and refreshing too.

Indications

The cure can applied against a lot of locomotor diseases: It can be applied for the treatment of rheumatic and locomotor diseases, osteoporosis, degenerative spin/joint diseases, Bechterew-disease, in the chronic stadium of inflammatory joint diseases, for post-operative treatment of injuries and locomotor operations, subsidiary joint diseases, chronic complaints, which are ascribable to mechanic reasons or join with the nerve system, pre- and post-operative treatments of joint operations, for the treatment of chronic gynecological diseases after operation of intervertebral disks.

Without medical advice you can bath 30 minutes; in case of chronic gastroenteritis and digestive troubles the water can be applied as drinking cure.

Contraindications

It isn’t recommended in infectious diseases, malignant tumors, cardiac insufficiency, disturbance of circulation, thrombosis, and other diseases of blood-forming organs, asthma, high blood pressure and pregnancy.