Hot Springs

Jan 15, 2007 04:01:34

The Ute and Arapaho Indians were firm believers in the healing qualities of hot springs, referring to the waters as "big medicine" for mind, body and spirit. They bathed themselves, their horses and dogs, children and women in the "magic waters" - in that order. Today's hot springs have no trace of past herds - human, canine or equine. The mineral waters flow constantly through fissures in the earth's surface, heated by volcanic rock 35,000 feet below. In the many hot springs in Colorado, minerals such as sodium, sulfate, chloride, silica, potassium, calcium, fluoride, magnesium, arsenic and lithium, have been noted, all of which are therapeutic for the body, inside and out.