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The kinds of Onsen and the Effects

Taking Onsen has several kinds of good effect for our body. Especially, the hot-spring cure has been so famous since old ages in Japan, and the effects depend on the minerals and the quantities. Formerly some Samurais took the effects of the Onsen for their cures, therefore we can gets same effects of Onsen as them. Some of the Onsen has good effects for our skins keeping beauty and it makes women feel glad. So it's a one of the way to research the effects of the Onsen before your visit.

I hope the below table might help you to check the effects. When you'll check your Onsen, please refer it that is written by kinds of the effects.

KindsEffectsComments
Chloride Spring Chronic skin disease, Skin burn, Incised wound, Anemia, Menstrual disorder, Chronic women's disease The salt sticks on our skin and it stops our sweet from evaporating, it affects our body keeping heat in.
Chloride Hydrogen Carbonate Spring Chronic skin disease, Diabetes, Gout, Skin burn, Incised wound, The spring clean up our grease and secretions on our skin, it makes our smooth skin. So, we call it "Beauty's Spring".
Sulfate Spring Chronic skin disease, High blood pressures, Diabetes, Gout, Skin burn, Incised wound, Menstrual disorder, Chronic women's disease This Onsen usually affects our incised wounds and skin bourns, so we call it "Incised Wound Spring".
Simple spring Arteriosclerosis, High blood pressure, Chronic skin disease, Diabetes, Skin burn, incised wound, Menstrual Disorder, Chronic women's disease The springs are general hot springs and don't stimulate our body so strong.
Sulfur spring Arteriosclerosis, High blood pressure, Chronic skin disease, Diabetes, Gout, Menstrual Disorder, Chronic women's disease We can smell the hydrogen sulfide that is special smell likes rotten egg at the spring. After oxidized we can fine some yellow or white precipitates in the spring.
Spring including iron Chronic skin disease, Anemia, Menstrual Disorder, Chronic women's disease The color of water is transparent and colorless at gushing out, but finally the color changes to dark brown after oxidized.
Acid spring Chronic skin disease, Diabetes, Incised wound, Anemia, Chronic women's disease The spring is so uncommon in other countries except Japan, but we can find a lot of the acid springs all over Japan.
Carbon dioxide spring Arteriosclerosis, High blood pressure, Skin burn, Incised wound We would get some comfortable stimulus by the carbon dioxide gas during taking the Onsen, so we call it "Bubble spring".
Radioactive spring Arteriosclerosis, High blood pressure, Chronic skin disease, Diabetes, Gout, Chronic women's disease We call the spring "Gout Spring" from since early time, because the Onsen affects urine and uric acid would be reduced in our body. And don't worry about the radioactivity in the spring, they vaporizes into the air after gushing out.

In additionally, recovering from our Fatigue, Lumbago, Muscle pain, Neuralgia, Arthralgia, Shoulder pain, Sensitivity to the cold, Hemorrhoids, Bruise and Sprain are the effects by every Onsen.

How do you think about Onsen? Onsen have a lot of effects, so I hope that you agree the fact that some wounded Samurai visited there since old ages. If you have any problems on your body, please try any Onsen like the Samurais.

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