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Medicinal and thermal baths, medicinal gas baths

In this respect Hungary can be considered a world power.  Our underground water stock is of great significance from the point of view of health tourism, especially when considering its volume, environmental and use-value. Nowhere else can one find thermal and medicinal waters of such high quality, which would be suitable for curing this many diseases. Medicinal waters in Hungary are unique in their diversity and their therapeutic effects have been well known for long. (Borszéki B. 1998). Our medicinal waters in general, but not necessarily, are warm or hot waters with a temperature of higher than 30 °C.  After Iceland, Japan, the United States, France, Italy, China and New Zealand, Hungary can boast the largest thermal water stock in the world. 

„Considering the size of our thermal water stock we are in the group of the five richest countries in the world (Japan, Iceand, Italy, France, Hungary.) When analyzing the circumstances in addition to the well known figures it can be concluded that in the group of the previously mentioned five countries the medicinal waters of Japan and Iceland are of high temprerature but low in minerals, while in Italy and France the mineral content of medicinal waters is high, but their temperature is lower than the temperature of the waters of the Carpathian Basin. Thus it can be stated that our waters are of outstanding quality: both their temperature and their mineral content are high. These features are unique in the whole world.  (OES 2007, p. 20)”.

A medicinal bath is an establishment which utilizes medicinal waters, mudbath, or other medical factor as balneotherapy, or by using officially acknowledged mineral water, or heated tap water for hydrotherapy or other therapeutic treatments they offer a full-scale of health services.  In Hungary a thermal bath is such an establishment, where the temperature of water (measured on the surface at the discharge hole – is  30°C or higher. (mimnet.hu).