HEALTH

Villa delle Ortensie is a wellness center for "a total remise and form".
With the application of the natural principles you will find again the vital energies: a body in brilliant form and a renewed spirit in order to counteract stress and daily routine.

Sulphurous thermal waters , massages, natural treatments, flowers of hay, hydro-massages with oligo-elements, aesthetical treatments and a natural medicine centre to the vanguard are waiting for you, for the treatment of medical or aesthetical pathologies, for making you realise the extraordinary powers of natural applications.

The treatments of our wellness center include vascular gym for the upper and lower limbs, phlebological passages, hydro-massages, steam baths, massotherapy, shiatsu and plantar reflexology, water-gym, inhalations sittings.
Everything is always made under constant control by our specialised medical staff.

THERMAL TREATMENTS

Thermal baths : the sulphureous waters of Sant' Omobono are used for the treatment of dermathological diseases . They are carried out in bathtubs with water at a temperature of 38°C, the treatment lasts approximately 14 minutes, followed by a final reaction of heat of about 20 minutes.

Hydro-massage: Relaxing in a hydro-massage bath will help you regain beauty and well-being.
Herbs, natural aromas and oil essences complete the therapeutic benefits.
Marine algae are indicated for fat excess, rosemary, pine, thyme and hay-flowers to improve circulation.

Hydropinical treatment : sulphureous water drink, drunk cold (14°C.) in a quantity of 250 cl., three times a day, in the morning or in the afternoon far away from meals. It mainly acts on the liver and biliary ways, with a laxative and diuretic effect .

AEROSOL THERAPY: Each aerosol produces a homogenous mix of minute spa water particles (1-2 microns) able to reach the higher respiratory tracts and the bronchial tree.
Some thermal treatments are recognized by the national health service.
In order to benefit the thermal treatments it is only necessary to provide yourself with a medical prescription from the family doctor.

WELLNESS TREATMENTS

STEAM BATHS:Steam baths and saunas are effective but simple treatments for dispeling toxins and fat, improving health, well-being and peripheral skin hydration as the complexion loses its "paleness" becoming more elastic and resistant. The alternation between warm vapour and cold water friction rubs reactivates circulation and helps fight cellulite deposits.

MUD THERAPY: Spa mud is a compost of sulphuric spa water and solid matter - soil and clay. Its action is in accordance to the water properties. It can be employed for muscular-skeletal aliments, liver plethora and the gastroenteritis system. In cosametic medicine it can be employed in association with marine algae extracts for beauty problems. It has a reducing action and can disperse localized fatty deposits.

HYDRO-TERAPHY

Water purifies the organism giving back a deep well-being that is reflected in the aesthetical aspect. The hydro-teraphycal method takes advantage from the organism's reactions provoked by the contact with water at various temperature and pressure.

Initially the warm water has a stimulating effect, improves the circulation, causes a dilatation of the cute's vessels, an increase of the perspiration and a strengthening effect on the vague nerve. Subsequently it provokes a relaxation of the musculature, attenuates the pain, reduces the glycemia stimulating the intestinal peristasys.

The cold water reduces the body temperature lessening the blood circulation, boosts the muscular tone, reduces the swelling up consequent to traumas and pain caused by contusions. Fundamental advantages come from the natural body's floatation in water.This fact allows the body to make movements with a minimal muscular effort.The hydro-therapycal bathtub becomes fundamental in the therapy of rehabilitation .The hydro-therapy is divided into three methods of application: body's (or single parts) immersion in water, application with jets and sprays (showers),compresses or gauzes.

HYDROTHERAPY BATHING:
Floating in water has important advantages. It consents movement with little muscle strain. Hydrotherapy tubes have become fundamental in rehabilitation therapy.
BATHS
 They consist in the body immersion in hydro-termal bathtubs with the association of body's movements at different water pressures. Special water jets massage your legs while you are walking along the phebologycal passage.You will feel an immediate well-being and a feeling of lightness, the swelling up, caused by the bad circulation will disappear.Baths in bathtubs with hydro-massage will help you to find again your perfect form and well-being. Natural herbs, aromas and oils complete the therapeutical effect.Seaweeds against fat excesses, rosemary for the circulation, pine, thymus, hay-flowers.

BRACHIOTHERAPY
This therapy stimulates and improves circulation in connective tissue stabilizing the neural-vegetative system. It is indicated for limb circulatory problems, above all for who has low blood pressure. Also indicated for respiratory ailments, chronic stress and skin diseases such as hand mycosis, eczema and dryness, sores and chilblains.

PHLEBETIC PATH
Specific water jets massage your legs while walking along the path, swelling due to bad circulation is relieved leaving you with a sensation of lightness.

FEET-BATHS WITH ALTERNATED TEMPERATURE
 Also for the inferior limbs this therapy works as a vascular gymnastics, it normalises the body's thermo-regulation, increases the organism resistance,stabilizes the neurovegetative system, the circulation and the rhino-pharynx mucosa. It is the ideal therapy for the constantly cold feet, low arterial pressure, chronic diseases from cooling, chronic frontal and maxillary sinusitis, headache and blood's disturbs.

SHOWERS
 They are an exceptional possibility for the prevention and the therapy of chronic diseases, since they demand only few minutes for the execution.The showers' action aimed particularly at a thermal stabilization in the care of veins, capillaries and the lymphatic vessels.

COLD COMPRESSES
 They take heat back, provoke in the neuro-vegetative system an increase of the likeable's tone (the nerve of the efficiency and the adaptation to the atmosphere) causing positive reactions such as:vessels constriction, arterial pressure's light increase , metabolism's activation , deeper and fast respiratio