The Gifts of Altai

The nature of Altai is a source of health

There are four actions that born a miracle cure: to watch how fire burns, water flows and starry sky shines, and all of that are in abundance in Altai.

Picturesqueness and uniqueness of Altai nature, the presence of stormy full of rapids rivers, covered with dark coniferous vegetation of mountains with high peaks, alpine meadows, an abundance of small and large unique in its beauty lakes – all of this creates a wonderful background for an emotional holiday.

You've heard the expression: "Altai is the second Switzerland?" In fact, the priorities should be set on the contrary, since the air of Altai mountain resort Belokurikha contains twice as much life-giving light air ions, than in the advertised Davos, and the open output of healing radon Belokurikha`s water is absolutely unique. Biological action of Altai climate is diverse: it soothes and tones the nervous system, improves the regulation of life processes, activates the metabolism, respiratory function, circulation of the blood, digestion, increases the body's immunity to various diseases, including infectious.

Ozone, that enriches the mountain air, has an amazing ability to destroy bacteria, viruses and fungi. Ozone enhances the redox processes, quickly reduces and removes signs of intoxication, improves microcirculation, thus enhances the oxygenation of tissues, that means the elimination of oxygen starvation, mobilization of fat resources to increase energy expenses, increases immunity.

Famous southern resorts do not stand comparison with Altai: in Belokurikha, Chemal, Cherga and Katanda are more sunny days than in the best areas of the Black Sea coast. Healing salt water of Yarovoe Big Lake (and a dozen of ponds) in the Steppe Altai identical to the famous waters of the Dead Sea in Israel. Pure springs and sources with a mass of useful minerals are hundreds, no wonder the German and Swiss gourmets go to Altai to admire the local drinks.

In Altai on a large scale and successfully practice antlers maral breeding and reindeer herding; the next major competitors are in Australia, and still Altai antlers on the world market are valued much higher. Altai herbal teas and phytopreparations lift on their feet hopeless patients, and to "relatively healthy" people (toiled under the weight of chronic and age-related diseases and conditions for which medicine has a long time ago waved) allow to remember what the real health is. In the region there are more than 600 species of useful plants, including 400 species of healing, 150 of nutritive and 166 of melliferous. Altai honey from taiga apiaries in Salair foothills during the time of Catherine II was supplied to the imperial table as the best in Russia.

The Altai Mountains are full of variety. They attract with overlooking of the majestic snowy peaks, dark ravines, among which, as the sky shards, suddenly appear blue lakes, with picturesque multi-colored rocks and noisy waterfalls. The vast majority of people marks an improvement in their health and increase of operability during their staying in the mountains. The huge natural health resort, which sits on a 250 000 square kilometers – that is Altai. But let about all one after ....

A recipe of eternal youth

Along with the amazing nature of Altai grows interest to health technologies based on the use of antlers raw material from the famous Siberian deer - Siberian stag. The main property of antler products is their ability to optimize energy processes occurring in the body. The organism using antler preparations restores itself. In the animal world there is nothing more wonderful than antlers. Doctors of various specialties have long noted an undeniable influence on the tone of the body and for the outcome of various diseases. Pants are young, not yet ossified antlers of Siberian stag or deer. They contain a unique "vitamin of youth" - Pantocrinum, the substance of the special composition. A man, regularly added into a tea a couple of spoonfuls of balsam Pantocrin, feels himself constantly fresh and strong, looks much younger than his age, does not give colds and other everyday diseases. Serious diseases, from heart problems to trophic ulcers, are cured in a short time without a trace, or made it much easier. By the way, in the capital of the Altai Region Barnaul based the only All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of reindeer antlers in country.

... But the farms of Siberian stags are located in mountainous areas. Dozens, even hundreds of square kilometers of wild slopes, river valleys and tracts enclosed by a fence; inside the timid deer graze freely, without even knowing that they live under human supervision. Young soft horns, covered with silky fur, are cut once a year, in early summer. A small portion is used immediately for the preparation of decoctions and baths, all the rest is recycled into products with a long shelf life. Antler baths and steam-antlers mini-saunas restore not only physical strength, but also the energy resource. Incredibly quickly the wounds heal, the skin is rejuvenated for a dozen years, age diseases leave. There are cases when after the antler baths people with grey hair restored hair color! No wonder the East say that the king of the vegetable world is ginseng, and in animal - antlers.

In the whole world Pantocrinum considered as a panacea "of thousands of illnesses," it is being bought for big money, bought for thousands of kilometers. In Altai quite cheap antler balms are sold in any drugstore, and you can take a bath with fresh decoction of antlers in dozens of farms of Siberian stags - just come to Altai.

And smokes white steam above the waters ...

It began the 19th century. The immigrants from Central Russia, who went to Altai for a better life, settled in a cozy valley of a small mountain river. And they found the hot springs above which rose a snow-white steam when it was cold. Firstly, farmers tried to deal with "extra dirt": they covered sources with the soil, filled up it with stones, but the water made its way out. And then someone found that after bathing in the spring a fatigue went away, a chronic pain in small of the back has gone. Inhabitants reported about their observations to a known scientist, the engineer of the Altai mountain administration Stepan Gulyaev, who with his own money and his own drawings built on the hot springs a first building - "font". The area received a name Belokuriha and became a wonderful spa resort after a century and a half.

The main wealth of the modern Belokurikha is a water with radon from the hot springs, from the group of nitrogen-siliceous containing radon thermal water with a high fluorine incorporation and a wide range of microelements. This water treats dozens of diseases, and even prolongs life. Interesting fact: at the street Altayskaya in Belokurikha until recent time there was no plumbing, so inhabitants were drinking artesian water with radon - and now there are more long-livers than in a whole city. In alliance with radon water "work" clean air of the pine forest, amazingly mild climate and the enchanting surrounding landscape. Small resort near the sonorous river surrounded by pine forest like a precious pendant on a broad ribbon Cherginsky ridge, which stretches along the northern border of the Altai Mountains.

Magical herbs

"A friend brought herbs of the Altai Mountains, for a month I made tea - and for one year I forgot about the headache!" - "And I got a herbal balm, a chronic bronchitis went away, such a magic..." Do you think it is the rehearsed phrases from commercials? No, it's a genuine delight of people for the first time faced with the "medication" not from the pharmacy, but from the generous reserves of the Altai nature.

Of course there is no magic here; well, except that quite a bit. Just in Altai grow and bloom hundred species of useful plants, two-thirds of them are medicine. Stimulant and antiseptic Badan, highly valued by Hippocrates nard, ordinary marjoram protects us from cancer, immune modulator kopeechnik, medical and edible bracken, tansy improves a work of heart and it is anthelminthic. Borovaya uterus means "mother of the forest", a natural remedy that helps women to feel the happiness of motherhood. Red brush, a plant revered as a gift from the gods to people, it works magically to a variety of diseases, making body health at the deepest level, making a man younger by restoring a lost strength, revealing the internal energy reserves. Shamans carry out rituals with the red brush - then the person becomes permanently protected from illnesses and troubles. St. John's Wort is a herb, which enhances immunity, promotes the restoration and renewal of cartilage and chordas, prevents the degeneration of normal cells into cancer cells. St. John's Wort is needed for the good work of the heart and nervous system. Thyme, from the Greek word "thyme" translated as "strength of mind", the beneficial features help to restore male and female health, it`s an effective tool in the fight against alcohol addiction.

Mar`in root cleanses the respiratory system and improves the mood thanks to the enhanced production of endorphins. Ivan tea, a powerful natural cleaner, reduces toxicity in oncology, as well as very useful for men - increases the potency. Ivan tea was always supplied to the imperial table and widely exported abroad in Russia.

Most species are widely known in other regions of the country, but what is interesting: for some reasons, the Altai herbs are more effective! Maybe the secret is that the unique power of these blessed places joins to the clean ecology, which is rare for our century.

But the golden root, an analogue of the legendary ginseng is a local Altai wealth of local. Lush green bushes of a plurality stems- "candles", topped with yellow and red flowers adorn the rocky slopes, banks of tempestuous rivers, cliffs and mountain tundra. But this is external beauty; a tuberous root with a subtle pleasant aroma hidden underneath is valuable. It is famous for the ability to strengthen the immune system, relieving a nervous tension, emboldening, rejuvenating, saving energy potential. Shepherds and hunters during difficult transitions in the mountains drink a decoction of the golden root - and for days do not leave the saddles without any signs of fatigue. The list of diseases, treatable with help of this plant, is so wide that you can just wonder: why people use the strongest drugs with a mass of side effects when the Altai Mountains have long given us a ready universal medicine?

One day a group of Moscow tourists lived at mouth of the river Mazhoy for a few days, waiting for the bad weather to go away. People were solid, 40-50 years old, with the appropriate bouquets of chronic diseases. No one specifically was not looking for medical herbs; just went around the camp picking raspberry and stone berry, cooked stewed fruit, threw into the tea leaves of the mountain currant and mint, sprigs of marjoram, pieces of gold rootfrom instructional resources. And to the end of the week people were surprised to discover that they forgot about medicine chest with remedies for "every day" stored in backpacks - because they felt great, without any medication, without which previously could not live a day.

Flora of the Altai is unique - there are plants, which can be nowhere else in the world.

Gifts at every step

Tell about all that in Altai is valuable and useful is just impossible - so generous this land is. Healing springs, mud or clay are almost near every village. On the Biya River, near the village of Stan-Bekhtemir, there is silver mineral source; this is the only area in Siberia, where with the help of natural gifts are successfully treated kidney diseases. Water from a spring in the valley Argut with incredible speed heals wounds; a small spring saved lives of many wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Water from the hot geyser in the springhead of Big Yaloman relieves joint pain and normalizes blood pressure, and it is not only for drinking, but also for bathing in the stone bath at the spring. "Eye" springs in Katanda and Belokuriha help fight cataracts, slow age-related decline of visual acuity.

Siberian cedar is a wonderful tree, which is considered to be the personification of power, beauty and longevity. Since ancient times cedar was considered as the main wealth of taiga. This is not surprising, because all of its parts - from the needle to the fruit - have a strong health-improving effect. Particular attention should be for cedar resin, which is called galipot among the people.

The galipot composition includes biologically active substances and essential oils that have a powerful antibacterial and antifungal action. This makes them quickly and efficiently stop the process of reproduction of pathogen bacteria and fungi. With an incredible ability to heal wounds and regenerate cells, galipot from the ancient times was considered as a very valuable product. Total body massage with cedar galipot calms, harmonizes, creates a feeling of lightness and relaxation. Around the planet diverges galipot from Altai, completely justifying its name.

Sea buckthorn oil is one of the truly miraculous remedies for burns, ulcers, increasing vitality and the defense of the body`s power.

Mountain mumie is able to return to a skin elasticity, to help to get rid of stretch marks, as well as their prevention. The powerful regenerative effect, which has received the recognition of many modern women. Using the mumie is safe during pregnancy and lactation. Mumie is used for healing bone fractures and treatment other diseases. "Only mumie saves from death", - says the ancient Eastern proverb.

Butter and flour of amaranth has a high nutritional value and medical properties. One of the amaranth name is translated as "God-given." History of cultivation of amaranth has about 8000 years.

Because of its nutritional and therapeutic-prophylactic properties, amaranth is recognized by experts of the UN Food Commission the most perspective grain crop of the XXI century.

Amaranth is rich for iron, phosphorus, potassium, vitamins B1, B2, E, D. It contains the record amount of lysine. The structure amaranth oil includes squalene. Today we know that amaranth oil is an absolute record-holder among the flora and fauna for the content of this natural substance. 6% squalene in amaranth oil is several times greater than in deep-sea shark liver. Squalene oxygenates the dermal tissues and organs, providing a powerful antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects. Squalene regulates many metabolic processes in the body.

In Soviet times for healing koumiss to the state farm Elekmonar came special couriers from the Politburo of the CPSU every month. With goats milk, which graze on steeps, you can today nurse the most weak babies for a couple of weeks.

Honey and beekeeping products

Nature gave people an invaluable wealth - bee products. Their useful properties are known since ancient times. Especially popular among the people are honey, wax, flower pollen, ambrosia, propolis, bees uterine milk, bee venom.

These products are involved in metabolic processes, they provide a living body with energy, increase the immunological processes, have a positive impact on the prevention and treatment of many diseases, noticeably improve metabolism for children and old people, recover trophism of tissues.

The main advantage of bee products is that when they are used as a therapeutic remedy for the most part they do not give side effects on the human body, like other pharmaceutical products.

Especially popular in Altai region and around the whole world is polyphlore honey of Altai, collected and prepared by bees from plants of natural meadows, pastures, forest tracts, taiga meadows subalpine and alpine zones. Many plants are not only beautiful honey plants, but also medicinal, existing only in Altai.

Delicious golden honey is collected on hundreds mountain apiaries of Altai.

That is the place - Altai. Strong and healthy region, which gives these priceless treasures to everyone who touches it.

Altai is powerful and generous, and to those who turn to it with an open heart, it would give a part of its healing power.

Be healthy and happy!