Experience reports from the climate gallery

Anna St., age: 8 years, Sand in Taufers
Diagnosis: Asthma
When Anna was 4 years old a terrible cough tormented her. The diagnosis was asthma. The doctor prescribed her cortisone as relief and predicted a long life for Anna- she only had to swallow diligently the medicine. After two years Anna had frequent trouble with breathing. Another doctor advised Anna's parents to try a climate gallery cure in the former copper mine in Prettau. Anna's parents agreed immediately to this alternative healing method. Anna found the contact to other affected children extremely restorative because she didn't feel „that different“. The course of the therapy was the following: Anna passed for 3 weeks 2 hours each day in the damp, pollen and germ-free air of the gallery. Anna increasingly stopped taking cortisone. After the first week Anna had acute breathing troubles, which subsided after 2 days. Her condition got better, today she is fine- even without cortisone. In the meantime four months passed and Anna doesn't need any cortisone at all. As prevention and stabilisation of her health condition she will repeat the cure at least two more times.

Prof. Dr. Lidio C., age: 78 years, Cagliari (Italy)
Diagnosis: chronic cold and arthritis
Since morre than 60 years a chronic cold, which I caught during World War II at the front, torments me. I have tried to alleviate the pains by inhalations, but I could not heal them. Last summer I got to know  through the press and some acquaintances about the climate gallery in Prettau and I soon realised that I wanted to try this therapy, even if I was informed about the fact that in Italy it is not officially recognized. I drove to the gallery and stayed for two weeks. The first few days I didn't feel any effect, but after 14 days I could notice at least a light recovery in my condition. In some more months I will be able to say more about the effects of the climate gallery on my respiratory organs. My arthritis has not become worse through the stay in the humid gallery against all doubts. I hope that the speleotherapy will be officially recognized also in Italy in forseeable time. The climate gallery in Prettau will become an attraction for people with breathing troubles of every kind. Prof. Dr. Lidio C. is professor for psychosomatic medicine, hypnosis and psychotherapy at the University of Cagliari.