Herbal medicine development on kurort Caucasian Mineral Waters
The analysis of formation of resort herbal medicine on the Caucasian Mineral Waters is presented. For the last decades the staff of Pyatigorsk Institute of Balneology together with other profile research teams, including with partial support of the program of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences «Fundamental sciences - medicine» (FNM-2009-2011), were executed comprehensive complex investigations of structure and properties of flying phytoorganic substances of dominating types of plants of parks, the mode of natural aero ionization of various landscape zones, quality of the ground atmosphere is investigated (about the contents in it anthropogenous aerosols), the analysis of information on medical action of various plants, including what are used in food is carried out. These results allowed to create the concept of resort herbal medicine, according to which plants as objects of a resort ecosystem, are the natural medical resources which use is an integral part of resort treatment. Are considered problem and priorities on modernization of methods of herbal medicine and their introduction in resort practice.