著者

増田 安政 小川 勇 山田 満 西村 仁三 高橋 宏

出版者

一般社団法人 国立医療学会

雑誌

医療 (ISSN:00211699)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, no.4, pp.526-530, 1969 (Released:2011-10-19)

参考文献数

14

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We investigated the effect of sulphur spring in bathing and its oral use on fasting blood sugar and alimentary hyperglycemia of 24 healthy adults. Mood sugar were measured by Somogy-Nelson's method and following results were obtained.When the temperature of hot spring water was maintained at 40°C, very few cases revealed the increase of blood sugar immediately after bathing, but on the other hand when it was maintained at 43-44°C, more than half of the cases increased, as the time passes by, however, the blood sugar values in the both groups showed the trend toward decrease and no remarkable differences between were noted.While apparent decrease of blood sugar by drinking tap water was not observed after one hour, by drinking of sulphur spring water 6 cases revealed the decrease, and further after 2 hours in the former no influence was found except only one case, but in the latter 8 cases showed apparently the decrease of blood sugar.No significant differences of blood sugar levels were observed between both groups, one administered glucose dissolved in tap water and the other supplied that dissolved in hot spring water orally.When took a bath after drinking of glucose solution, after 2 hours blood sugar showed same level or decreased, but after 3 hours almost all cases decreased as compared with the value before bathing.Those blood sugar lowering effect was supposed to be due to the action of gas such as sulphureted hydrogen through skin and further in its inhalation and further more due tö the thermal stimulus in bathing.