speleotherapy

English

Etymology

From speleo- +‎ therapy.

Noun

speleotherapy (uncountable)

1. The use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma.

   Coordinate term: halotherapy

   • 2017, Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, editors, Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes, Springer, →ISBN, page 220:

     The beneficial effect of salt (speleotherapy) was reported by the Polish doctor F. Bochkowsky in 1843. Speleotherapy is based on the in-patient treatment in salt caves possessing a specific microclimate.

Translations

the use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma

• Armenian: անձավաբուժություն (anjavabužutʻyun)
• Russian: спелеотерапия (ru) (speleoterapija), спелеолечение (speleolečenije)