Salt therapy / Herzog Foundation

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Salt therapy

When German grocery store manager Reinhold Häckel found that his psoriasis symptoms disappeared while he was on holiday there in 1978, he was so fascinated by the effect that he thereupon founded a travel agency for organising holidays and health-related travel to the Dead Sea. He wanted to make these extraordinary therapy opportunities available to a wide circle of patients.

In 1989 the German Medical Centre opened in Ein Bokek. It is part of Hotel Lot and it is a rehabilitation clinic for patients with chronic skin diseases. Anyone who is not fluent in Hebrew or English need not worry. The reception staff speak perfect German.

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Herzog Foundation

In Ein Bokek the “Christiane Herzog Dead Sea Climate Therapy Centre” was also inaugurated in 2006. Here they care for children who suffer from the incurable metabolic disease cystic fibrosis. Since not all statutory health insurance companies in Germany will finance flights and accommodation for the health treatment for children with their carers, the Herzog Foundation sometimes helps out.