Natural Springs Hydrotherapeutic apparatus and Nauheim Treatment Recovery

These exquisite treatments utilize the powers of the sulphur spring waters and the rejuvenating qualities of the natural mineral waters.

 Sulphur Soak

For over 230 years, people have traveled to White Sulphur Springs to "take the waters," the heart and soul of the Greenbrier Spa experience. Immerse yourself in a relaxing soak in your own private soaking room; known for its healing qualities, this soak will ease tired muscles and minimize aches and pains while stimulating the circulatory system.

25 minutes, $50

 Waterworks

Relax in our famous Sulphur water, followed by an invigorating Swiss Shower and Scotch Spray, designed to increase circulation and stimulate the body. This guest favorite is a great way to prepare your body for your next treatment.

25 minutes, $75

Aromatherapy Bath

Whether you need to relax or revive, our providers will assist you in choosing the aromatherapy bath oil designed to suit your needs.

25 minutes, $70

Mineral Mountain Bath

Bask in the warm, rejuvenating waters of West Virginia's own Alvon Springs. The high concentration of our pure mineral bath salts is perfect for soothing tired, sore muscles, while helping to rebalance your body's natural minerals and rehydrate your skin. A Greenbrier Spa essential.

25 minutes, $70

Detoxifying Bath

Purify your body with our detoxifying bath. Utilizing a volcanic ash powder, this treatment is designed to boost your metabolism while draining excess fluid and toxins from your body.

25 minutes, $70

Fruit and Creme Baths

Filled with skin-loving indulgences, these little sachets infuse the bath with a divine blend of pure silk, real fruit and creamy coconut milk.

25 minutes, $70

 A Greenbrier specialty

 

Reservations

We strongly recommend that Spa and Clinic appointments be arranged when booking your room reservations. Advance reservations may also be made by calling 888-598-8412 (inside resort: dial 7745).  If you have a request as to the gender of your provider, please mention this at the time of reservation as we schedule our services with the first available provider. Please note that once appointments are made, 24-hour cancellation notice is requested to avoid charges.
 

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  THE HOMESTEAD
  7696 SAM SNEAD HIGHWAY
  HOT SPRINGS, VA 24445
  (540) 839-1766

Mineral Soaks

1766 MINERAL BATH

• • Experience the naturally heated waters that made The Homestead famous. You'll relax in an overflowing bath of mineral water - a perfect treatment for sore muscles or as preparation for a body treatment or massage. Choose our anti-aging, detox or revitalizing soak to suit your needs. 
    
    20 minutes - $55

MINERAL EUPHORIA

• • A rejuvenating mineral springs soak, along with your choice of an anti-aging, detox or revitalizing salts, is followed by a full-body Swedish massage using complementary moisturizing lotion.
    
    80 minutes - $195
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30 MINUTE DELUXE HYDRO for EARLY BIRD & BIRTHDAY SPECIAL
(Available through the end of May 2014)
  Come in for any 90 minute Silk Treatment (except waxings) Monday through Friday by 5pm and receive aCOMPLIMENTARY 30 minute Deluxe Hydro Treatment (savings of $80). The hydro treatment is also available for clients visiting as a couple (savings of $110). 

OR if your BIRTHDAY is in May (Photo ID with DOB required), you are entitled to COMPLIMENTARY 30 minute Deluxe Hydro Treatment at any time or day in April as long as you receive any 60 minute treatment (except waxings). 

  Please mention the Hydro promotion when booking your appointment. 
  Hydro Promotion can be combined with any regular Gift Card or Series, but not with any other specials or promotion vouchers. Please call us at 212-255-6457 for any inquiry. 

Business Hours

Everyday:
10:45AM-10:00PM

Sat:
9:30AM-10:00PM 

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(212)255-6457

47 West 13th St.
New York,
NY 10011 

info@SilkDaySpa.com

Spa therapy had proved successful in Europe and elsewhere in the world, the U.S. 

Business Hours

Everyday:
10:45AM-10:00PM

Sat:
9:30AM-10:00PM 

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(212)255-6457

47 West 13th St.
New York,
NY 10011 

info@SilkDaySpa.com
Places of healing where all tribes went and were allowed to bring their sick and wounded to drink the waters and bathe in the mud.  Springs was recognized at this time that many business leaders aged prematurely largely because they neglected their health; the Greenbrier Clinic was created in 1947 so that executives could attend to their health through preventive medicine.

The early European settlers, in the 18th and 19th centuries, discovered and exploited 

these natural hot springs; on later realizing their commercial value, they developed many 

of them into spas after the tradition in Europe. Many individual developments were 

successful, such as those at Saratoga Springs, New York; White Sulphur Springs, West 

Virginia; Hot Springs, Virginia; Warm Springs, Georgia; and Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA 

Three major springs are located in the Warm Springs Valley of the Allegheny Mountains 

in western Virginia, along US route 220: the Warm, Hot and Healing--all now owned by 

Virginia Hot Springs, Inc. The Homestead, a large and historic  is located at Hot Springs. The odorless mineral water used at The Homestead spa flows from several springs at temperatures ranging from 39 to 41°C (Loam and Gersh, 1992). It is piped to individual, one-person bathtubs in separate men's and women's bathhouses, where it is mixed to provide an ideal temperature of 40°C. Tubs are drained and refilled after each use so that no chemical treatment is necessary. Mineral water from the same springs is used in an indoor swimming pool maintained at 29°C and an outdoor swimming pool maintained 

at 22°C.  Eight kilometers away to the northeast, but still within the 6000-ha Homestead 

property, are the Warm Springs, which flow at 36°C. The rate of discharge is so great, 63 L/ 

s (Muffler, 1979), that the two large Warm Springs pools, in separate men's and women's 

buildings, maintain the temperature on a flow-through basis requiring no chemical 

treatment. The men's pool was designed by Thomas Jefferson and opened in 1761, while 

the ladies' pool was opened in 1836. The adjacent "drinking spring" and the two covered 

pools have been preserved in their original condition.  The approximate partial analysis of the Warm Springs pools is given in Table 5. Total dissolved solids are reported as 388 mg/L (calculated); however, Muffler (1979) reports 525 mg/L and 586 mg/L for Hot Springs.

Healing Springs, located approximately eight kilometers to the southwest of Hot 

Springs, is reported at 30°C with total dissolved solids of 596 mg/L at less than one L/s flow 

(Muffler, 1979). 

Table 5. Chemical analysis of Warm Springs Pool, Virginia (source: undated 

brochure from the Homestead) (mg/L) 

Bicarbonate 194 

Sulphate 160 

Iron 120 

Sodium 5.4 

Chloride 1.4 

Nitrate 0.10 

Sampling temperature unknown; spring 

reported from 39 to 41°C. 128 ,I. W. Lurid 

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Take the cure at VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS for Rheumatism. 

Complete hydrotherapeutic apparatus and Nauheim Treatment installed at VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS America's Greatest Health Resort WATERBATHS & SCENERY NOWHERE EQUALLED 

The New Homestead Hotel,best in Anaerica. Fig. 13. Advertisements for Virginia Hot Springs from the 1800s (source: Cohen, 1981). Reproduced by permission of Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston, WV. 

After World War II, some of the survivors of the Holocaust came to the United States 

and received spa therapy, paid for by the German government. These people, with their 

European background, appreciated spas, and thus had great confidence in the ability of 

the healing powers of the mineral waters. Some of these people still come to the spa. 

In 1838, Dr John Jennings Moorman began work at White Sulphur Springs, and 

transformed the practice of taking the waters from an act of faith into a systematic method 

of health care. Over the next 45 years he became a nationally recognized authority on the 

uses and abuses of mineral water (Conte, 1989). His first published work, in 1839, A 

Directory for the Use of the White Sulphur Waters with Practical Remarks on the Medical 

Properties and Applicability to Particular Diseases (Moorman, 1839), contained direction 

on how to avoid the misuse of sulphur water by using and drinking it in moderation. The 

most common error at the time was the belief among visitors that "they benefitted in 

proportion to the quantity which they drink." As a general rule, he recommended four to 

eight glasses per day, working up to 10 or 12 at most after two weeks, and believed that two 

weeks was the minimum period of time for the water to be effective, and its benefits began 

to appear only after three to six weeks (Fig. 10).   Dr Moorman felt the best use of the water was for the bowels, liver, kidneys and skin.  He stressed that the water was not a panacea and therefore prescribed it for only a limited time.

Fig. 9. 

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White Sulphur Spring, West Virginia (source: Conte, 1989). Reproduced by permission of 

The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WY. 

Balneological Use of Thermal and Mineral Waters in the U.S.A. 

Table 4. Chemical analysis of White Sulphur 

Springs, West Virginia (source: West Virginia 

Geological and Economic Survey, 1986) (mg/L) 

121 

Sulphate 1400 

Calcium 440 

Bicarbonate 210 

Magnesium 130 

Sodium 22 

Silica 17 

Chloride 17 

Hydrogen sulfide 13 

Potassium 1.2 

Iron 1.1 

Sampling temperature unknown; spring 

reported as 17°C. 

in the eastern U.S. Natural mineral water at 17°C and