Healthcare Services

Natural therapeutic methods are increasingly gaining ground world-wide. Modern medicaments, applied in everyday use, are efficient but with more and more side-effects. Aside from potential health risks, patients must cope with a further difficulty; the rise in pharmaceutical costs. We certainly do need medicine, however, for certain diagnosis, natural therapies can be excellent supplements to drugs, in many cases even replacements.

In accordance with current legal regulation, nine kinds of various bath treatments can be obtained by medical prescription, for the purpose of rehabilitation, in the thermal baths of Budapest Thermal Baths and Hot Springs Co.Ltd.:

• Thermal healing pool
• Thermal tub-bath
• Mud package
• Weight bath
• Carbonic acid bath
• Medical healing massage
• Underwater water-beam massage
• Underwater healing gymnastics in groups
• Complex healing bath facilities (cannot be ordered directly)

Thermal bath therapies can be ordered by physicians specialising in rheumatology, physiotherapy and rehabilitation of the organs of locomotion. We provide all treatments (except for pool bath, tub-bath and massages) exclusively with presentation of a medical prescription, on which the name of the patient, his/her personal data, diagnosis as well as the prescription relating to treatment are indicated, and a valid form of ID of the patient. This can be paid either by social security system voucher, or for a cash fee. According to statutes in effect, social security supports two cures per calendar years. The complex thermal bath facility (code number 09) counts as a separate cure.

At the medical department of the Gellért Thermal Bath (1114 Budapest, Kelenhegyi út 4-6.), there is also a salt chamber, a medicament inhalation chamber and tooth-gum shower at the disposal of patients. Call for information about current opening hours of the department at: (36 1) 466-6166. The treatments for reduction or elimination of catarrhic symptoms of upper and lower respiratory processes (sinusitis, sinobronchialis sy., tracheitis, diskynesises, bronchitis chron., spast., asthma bronchi., pollenosis, rhinitis allerg., etc.) are equally available to children and adults.

Drink Diets

Széchenyi Thermal Bath

Thermal water containing calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate, chloride, sulphate, alkalis and a significant amount of fluoride.

Diagnoses required for drinking cure:

chronic gastric catarrh, gastric ulcer, intestine catarrh
overproduction of gastric acid (hyperchlorhydria)
chronic inflammations of the renal pelvis and the urine paths
certain forms of renal stone disease
chronic catarrh of the respiratory organs
influencing disturbances of metabolism caused by gout
enhancing discharge of the bile in case of certain diseases of the gall-bladder and the bile paths

Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 6.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Rudas Thermal Bath

1. Thermal water Juventus

Thermal water with calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate, sulphate, radioactive, also containing alkalis and a substantial amount of fluoride.

Diagnoses required for drinking cure:

chronic gastric catarrh with reduced acid separation
chronic inflammations of the renal pelvis and the urine paths
influencing disturbances of metabolism caused by gout
certain forms of renal stone disease
blood circulation problems
arteriosclerosisrelief of menopausal complaints
premature aging of the body

2. Thermal water Attila

Thermal water with calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate, sulphate, chloride, radioactive, also containing alkalis and a substantial amount of fluoride.

• Diagnosis for a drinking cure:
• chronic gastric catarrh
• chronic gastric ulcer
• chronic intestinal ulcer
• chronic catarrhs of the respiratory organs

3. Thermal water Hungária

Thermal water with calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate, sulphate, chloride, radioactive, also containing alkalis and a substantial amount of fluoride.

Diagnoses required for drinking cure:

• overproduction of gastric acid
• chronic gastric catarrh accompanied by an increased acid segregation

Opening hours for springs at the Rudas Thermal Bath:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday:              07.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday:               Closed

Lukács Thermal Bath

Thermal water with calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate, chloride, sulphate, also containing alkalis and a substantial amount of fluoride.

Diagnoses required for drinking cure:

chronic gastric catarrh, gastric ulcer, intestinal catarrh
overproduction of gastric acid
chronic inflammations of the renal pelvis and the urine paths
certain forms of renal diseases
chronic catarrh of the respiratory organs
enhancing discharge of the bile in case of certain diseases of the gall-bladder and the bile paths.

Opening hours:
Monday - Friday:         6.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday:     6.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.

Recommended single portion: 300 - 500 ml. Before the drinking cure, please consult your doctor!

Complex thermal bath facilities

These can be obtained now in the following two thermal baths: Szt. Gellért, Széchenyi. To use facilities supported by social security, free-of-charge, an appointment and place reservation is required from a professional rheumatology consultant competent for the area of the patient's residence.

Those having an appointment for complex thermal facilities have to pay HUF 400/occasion, and the whole sum have to be paid in advance, at the entrance in accordance with the number of the treatments.

Those not having an appointment or place reservation for complex thermal facilities have to pay HUF 5,500/day at the Gellért Thermal Bath, or HUF 4,500/day at the Széchenyi Thermal Baths. Registration and place reservation: at least 6 weeks prior to appointment.

Duration of treatment for foreign citizens - 5 days at least.
Schedule of treatments:
Morning group 8:00 - 12:00
Afternoon group 13:00 - 17:00.

Departments providing complex thermal bath facilities:

Budapest Thermal Baths and Hot Springs Co. Ltd.   
Head physician: dr. István Fluck
Telephone: (36 1) 279-0445, fax: (36 1) 279-0446
Assigned Deputy Head physician: dr. Remény Horváth
Telephone: (36 1) 363-8090, (36 1) 363-8880

Szt. Gellért Thermal Bath  
Head Physician: dr. István Fluck
Telephone: (36 1) 279-0445, fax: (36 1) 279-0446

Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Head of department: dr. Remény Horváth
Telephone: (36 1) 363-8090, (36 1) 363-8880

Our bath physicians are glad to be at your disposal. Contact us with confidence to select the appropriate healing treatment.