CAIRO - Siwa is a valley in the North West side of Cairo with a distance of approximately 600 km. Communities have different languages with the Egyptian society in general.Historical relics remaining shows that they never had a high civilization since 3000 BC. There are sites such as Mount of the Dead (hill landfill mummy), Haykal worship the god Ammon at the time of the dynasty pharaoh, Cleopatra's Pool, the legacy of Alexander the Great, the ancient Shiva Castle and so forth.
Siwa society has inherited traditional medications sciences who continue to defend them until now. With traditional medicine or traditional recipes, they can live naturally healthy without having to go to doctors, health clinics and pharmacies. One such treatment method is a very unique way with a bath of sand that is heated by sunlight to 45 degrees Celsius, even more.
"We're here never went to the doctor, also never buy drugs that contain chemicals. We're seeing a natural way the hot sand bath," Yousef said, the Siwa's guide for 50 residents of Al-Azhar university students from Indonesia who tour in the Siwa valley on July 6 last ago. Efficacy of this treatment method was to invite the attention of many people. So that many patients who come from outside the Siwa region. "They come from afar to Siwa to seek traditional treatment in the bath of sand," said Mushlih Nahidh, a student of Al-Azhar in Cairo who often to Siwa.
The secrets of the Siwa bath sand
Yousef explained, according with Siwa traditional health sciences, the emergence of various diseases are caused by conditions that are not healthy water element in the body. Therefore water must be throw away. And a more powerful method for it is by the hot sand bath in Hammam Raml (sand bath).
This sand bath is expected to be issued a 3-4 liters of water from the body through sweat. Along with that out various kinds of diseases such as rheumatism, uric acid, stroke, cholesterol, and others.
Yousef, a Siwa guide who speaks fluent English and Arabic would not let his Indonesia guests soluble in curiosity. With pleasure he brought them to the location of the hot sand baths.
Arriving at the scene, there were no bathing pool, the river was also. That there are only dozens of tents lined up in the middle of the desert. In front of these encampments 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.
Approximately 10 minutes later, a pickup came with a bunch of people. And it turns out they were the patients who will engage in the practice hot sand bath. One patient went into the hole. Her clothes were replaced with a towel to cover nakedness.
He took a position lying facing the sky. Then planted with sand which reaches 45 degrees Celsius heat. After the private parts completely covered by sand, a towel that had been worn pulled slowly. Further burials continued until the limit of the neck. To avoid heat shock, the patient's head was shaded 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 the patient is removed from the hole, closed private parts, and then inserted into the camp, a distance of one meter from the hole to recess.
The clumps of wet sand that made an impression at his funeral shows the number of levels of water coming out of the pores of his skin. Conceivably, if the water is removed from the patient's body reaches 3 liters to 4 liters over a period of 15 minutes, means she has up to 3 kg diet in a relatively very short! Want to try the practice Siwa alternative therapies?
