speleotherapy

English

Etymology

From speleo- + therapy.

Noun

speleotherapy (uncountable)

  1. The use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma.
    Coordinate term: halotherapy
    • 2017, Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, editors, Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes, Springer, →ISBN, page 220:
      The beneficial effect of salt (speleotherapy) was reported by the Polish doctor F. Bochkowsky in 1843. Speleotherapy is based on the in-patient treatment in salt caves possessing a specific microclimate.

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