[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":684},["ShallowReactive",2],{"catalog":3,"landing-gut-health-retreats-in-karlovy-vary":400},{"destinations":4,"resorts":123,"concerns":200,"concernGroups":283,"landings":296,"markets":321,"modalities":361,"totals":392},[5,19,27,36,44,53,62,69,75,83,89,95,102,108,116],{"slug":6,"name":7,"country":8,"cluster":9,"modalities":10,"resortCount":13,"programmeCount":14,"fromPrice":15,"gatewayCode":18},"kerala","Kerala","India","asia",[11,12],"ayurveda","yoga",3,4,{"amount":16,"currency":17},128000,"INR","COK",{"slug":20,"name":21,"country":8,"cluster":9,"modalities":22,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":24,"gatewayCode":26},"rishikesh","Rishikesh",[12,11],2,{"amount":25,"currency":17},207000,"DED",{"slug":28,"name":29,"country":30,"cluster":9,"modalities":31,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":32,"gatewayCode":35},"sri-lanka-coast","The Ayurveda coast","Sri Lanka",[11,12],{"amount":33,"currency":34},2180,"EUR","CMB",{"slug":37,"name":38,"country":38,"cluster":9,"modalities":39,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":43},"bhutan","Bhutan",[40],"sowa-rigpa",1,0,"PBH",{"slug":45,"name":46,"country":47,"cluster":9,"modalities":48,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":49,"gatewayCode":52},"ubud","Ubud","Indonesia",[12],{"amount":50,"currency":51},2070,"USD","DPS",{"slug":54,"name":55,"country":56,"cluster":9,"modalities":57,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":59,"gatewayCode":61},"koh-samui","Koh Samui","Thailand",[58],"thai-lanna",{"amount":60,"currency":51},1890,"USM",{"slug":63,"name":64,"country":65,"cluster":9,"modalities":66,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":68},"beppu","Beppu","Japan",[67],"onsen","OIT",{"slug":70,"name":71,"country":65,"cluster":9,"modalities":72,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":74},"okinawa","Okinawa",[73,67],"longevity","OKA",{"slug":76,"name":77,"country":78,"cluster":79,"modalities":80,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":82},"baden-baden","Baden-Baden","Germany","europe",[81],"balneotherapy","FKB",{"slug":84,"name":85,"country":86,"cluster":79,"modalities":87,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":88},"karlovy-vary","Karlovy Vary","Czechia",[81],"PRG",{"slug":90,"name":91,"country":92,"cluster":79,"modalities":93,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":94},"bad-gastein","Bad Gastein","Austria",[81],"SZG",{"slug":96,"name":97,"country":98,"cluster":79,"modalities":99,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":101},"quiberon","Quiberon","France",[100],"thalassotherapy","LRT",{"slug":103,"name":104,"country":105,"cluster":79,"modalities":106,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":107},"montreux","Montreux","Switzerland",[73],"GVA",{"slug":109,"name":110,"country":92,"cluster":79,"modalities":111,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":113,"gatewayCode":115},"tyrol","Tyrol",[112,81],"mayr",{"amount":114,"currency":34},4310,"INN",{"slug":117,"name":118,"country":119,"cluster":120,"modalities":121,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42,"gatewayCode":122},"nicoya","The Nicoya peninsula","Costa Rica","americas",[73,12],"LIR",[124,129,132,135,139,142,145,148,152,155,158,161,164,168,171,175,178,181,184,187,191,194,197],{"slug":125,"name":126,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":127,"relationship":128},"somatheeram","Somatheeram Ayurveda Village","ayurveda-hospital","bookable",{"slug":130,"name":131,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":127,"relationship":128},"kalari-kovilakom","Kalari Kovilakom",{"slug":133,"name":134,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":127,"relationship":128},"carnoustie","Carnoustie Ayurveda & Wellness Resort",{"slug":136,"name":137,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":138,"relationship":128},"ananda-himalayas","Ananda in the Himalayas","retreat",{"slug":140,"name":141,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":138,"relationship":128},"six-senses-vana","Six Senses Vana",{"slug":143,"name":144,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30,"character":127,"relationship":128},"barberyn-reef","Barberyn Reef",{"slug":146,"name":147,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30,"character":138,"relationship":128},"santani","Santani Wellness Resort",{"slug":149,"name":150,"destinationSlug":37,"destinationName":38,"country":38,"character":138,"relationship":151},"amankora","Amankora","profile",{"slug":153,"name":154,"destinationSlug":45,"destinationName":46,"country":47,"character":138,"relationship":128},"como-shambhala-estate","COMO Shambhala Estate",{"slug":156,"name":157,"destinationSlug":45,"destinationName":46,"country":47,"character":138,"relationship":128},"fivelements-bali","Fivelements Retreat Bali",{"slug":159,"name":160,"destinationSlug":54,"destinationName":55,"country":56,"character":138,"relationship":128},"kamalaya","Kamalaya",{"slug":162,"name":163,"destinationSlug":54,"destinationName":55,"country":56,"character":138,"relationship":128},"absolute-sanctuary","Absolute Sanctuary",{"slug":165,"name":166,"destinationSlug":63,"destinationName":64,"country":65,"character":167,"relationship":151},"suginoi","Suginoi Hotel","thermal-cure",{"slug":169,"name":170,"destinationSlug":70,"destinationName":71,"country":65,"character":138,"relationship":151},"hoshinoya-okinawa","Hoshinoya Okinawa",{"slug":172,"name":173,"destinationSlug":76,"destinationName":77,"country":78,"character":174,"relationship":151},"villa-stephanie","Brenners Park-Hotel & Villa Stéphanie","medical-clinic",{"slug":176,"name":177,"destinationSlug":76,"destinationName":77,"country":78,"character":167,"relationship":151},"friedrichsbad","Friedrichsbad",{"slug":179,"name":180,"destinationSlug":84,"destinationName":85,"country":86,"character":167,"relationship":151},"grandhotel-pupp","Grandhotel Pupp",{"slug":182,"name":183,"destinationSlug":90,"destinationName":91,"country":92,"character":174,"relationship":151},"gasteiner-heilstollen","Gasteiner Heilstollen",{"slug":185,"name":186,"destinationSlug":96,"destinationName":97,"country":98,"character":167,"relationship":151},"thalassa-quiberon","Institut Thalassa Quiberon",{"slug":188,"name":189,"destinationSlug":103,"destinationName":104,"country":105,"character":190,"relationship":151},"clinique-la-prairie","Clinique La Prairie","longevity-clinic",{"slug":192,"name":193,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92,"character":174,"relationship":128},"lanserhof-lans","Lanserhof Lans",{"slug":195,"name":196,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92,"character":174,"relationship":128},"park-igls","Park Igls",{"slug":198,"name":199,"destinationSlug":117,"destinationName":118,"country":119,"character":138,"relationship":151},"harmony-nosara","Harmony Hotel",[201,207,212,217,224,229,235,241,246,253,258,264,268,273,278],{"slug":202,"name":203,"group":204,"said":205,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":206},"sleep","Sleep","mind","I fall asleep fine and then I am awake at three.",{"amount":16,"currency":17},{"slug":208,"name":209,"group":204,"said":210,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":211},"burnout","Burnout & exhaustion","I am not depressed. I am just completely empty.",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"slug":213,"name":214,"group":204,"said":215,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":216},"stress-and-anxiety","Stress & anxiety","My shoulders are somewhere near my ears and they have been for a year.",{"amount":50,"currency":51},{"slug":218,"name":219,"group":220,"said":221,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":222},"digestion","Digestion & the gut","body","Something has been wrong with my stomach for years and nobody can tell me what.",{"amount":223,"currency":17},286000,{"slug":225,"name":226,"group":220,"said":227,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":228},"weight","Weight & metabolic health","I have lost the same eight kilos four times.",{"amount":60,"currency":51},{"slug":230,"name":231,"group":220,"said":232,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":233},"back-and-joints","Back, neck & joints","My lower back has been a background noise for a decade.",{"amount":234,"currency":17},251000,{"slug":236,"name":237,"group":238,"said":239,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":240},"chronic-pain","Chronic & rheumatic pain","medical","I have a diagnosis. I am looking for something that is not another drug.",{"amount":234,"currency":17},{"slug":242,"name":243,"group":220,"said":244,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":245},"detox","Detox & the annual reset","I want to properly clean myself out once a year.",{"amount":234,"currency":17},{"slug":247,"name":248,"group":249,"said":250,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":251},"menopause","Menopause & perimenopause","life-stage","I am not sleeping, I am not myself, and I am tired of being told it is normal.",{"amount":252,"currency":17},185000,{"slug":254,"name":255,"group":249,"said":256,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":257},"fertility","Fertility & preconception","We are trying, and I want to give my body the best possible chance.",{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"slug":259,"name":260,"group":238,"said":261,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":262},"post-viral-fatigue","After illness","I was ill six months ago and I still am not right.",{"amount":263,"currency":34},2770,{"slug":73,"name":265,"group":238,"said":266,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":267},"Longevity & prevention","I am well. I would like to stay that way, and I would like some data.",{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"slug":269,"name":270,"group":249,"said":271,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":272},"first-retreat","A first retreat","I have never done anything like this and I do not want to get it wrong.",{"amount":50,"currency":51},{"slug":274,"name":275,"group":249,"said":276,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":277},"travelling-alone","Travelling alone","I am going by myself and I do not want to eat dinner alone for two weeks.",{"amount":263,"currency":34},{"slug":279,"name":280,"group":249,"said":281,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":282},"together","Going together","I want to do the programme. My partner wants a holiday.",{"amount":252,"currency":17},[284,287,290,293],{"key":204,"title":285,"note":286},"Mind & nervous system","Where a change of place does the most work, and where the evidence is best.",{"key":220,"title":288,"note":289},"Body & metabolism","Digestion, weight, joints — the concerns that respond to daily repetition over a fortnight.",{"key":238,"title":291,"note":292},"With a diagnosis","Alongside your own doctor, never instead. These pages are the most careful on the site.",{"key":249,"title":294,"note":295},"Where you are","Menopause, preconception, a first retreat, travelling alone or together.",[297,300,303,306,309,312,315,318],{"slug":298,"h1":299},"ayurveda-retreats-in-india","Ayurveda retreats in India",{"slug":301,"h1":302},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-austria","The thermal kur retreats in Austria",{"slug":304,"h1":305},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-czechia","The thermal kur retreats in Czechia",{"slug":307,"h1":308},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-germany","The thermal kur retreats in Germany",{"slug":310,"h1":311},"longevity-retreats-in-japan","Longevity retreats in Japan",{"slug":313,"h1":314},"longevity-retreats-in-switzerland","Longevity retreats in Switzerland",{"slug":316,"h1":317},"mayr-retreats-in-austria","The Mayr cure retreats in Austria",{"slug":319,"h1":320},"mayr-retreats-in-germany","The Mayr cure retreats in Germany",[322,325,328,330,332,335,337,340,343,346,349,352,355,358],{"slug":323,"shortName":324},"united-kingdom","United Kingdom",{"slug":326,"shortName":327},"ireland","Ireland",{"slug":329,"shortName":78},"germany",{"slug":331,"shortName":98},"france",{"slug":333,"shortName":334},"spain","Spain",{"slug":336,"shortName":105},"switzerland",{"slug":338,"shortName":339},"netherlands","Netherlands",{"slug":341,"shortName":342},"united-states","United States",{"slug":344,"shortName":345},"canada","Canada",{"slug":347,"shortName":348},"mexico","Mexico",{"slug":350,"shortName":351},"brazil","Brazil",{"slug":353,"shortName":354},"argentina","Argentina",{"slug":356,"shortName":357},"chile","Chile",{"slug":359,"shortName":360},"colombia","Colombia",[362,366,371,374,377,380,383,386,389],{"slug":11,"name":363,"tagline":364,"regulated":365,"count":13},"Ayurveda","India’s licensed system of medicine, practised as medicine",true,{"slug":12,"name":367,"tagline":368,"regulated":369,"count":370},"Yoga","A lineage, a teacher, and enough consecutive days to matter",false,5,{"slug":81,"name":372,"tagline":373,"regulated":365,"count":14},"The thermal kur","Europe’s prescribed cure, still paid for by health insurers",{"slug":67,"name":375,"tagline":376,"regulated":365,"count":23},"Onsen","Japanese hot-spring bathing, defined by law",{"slug":100,"name":378,"tagline":379,"regulated":365,"count":41},"Thalassotherapy","Heated seawater, under medical supervision, since 1899",{"slug":58,"name":381,"tagline":382,"regulated":365,"count":41},"Traditional Thai medicine","A licensed profession, not the massage on the high street",{"slug":40,"name":384,"tagline":385,"regulated":365,"count":41},"Sowa Rigpa","Himalayan medicine, delivered by the state in Bhutan",{"slug":73,"name":387,"tagline":388,"regulated":365,"count":13},"Longevity","Two very different answers to the same question",{"slug":112,"name":390,"tagline":391,"regulated":365,"count":41},"The Mayr cure","A medically supervised digestive rest, invented in Austria",{"destinations":393,"countries":394,"resorts":395,"programmes":393,"concerns":393,"modalities":396,"bookable":397,"highConfidence":396,"excursions":398,"extensions":399},15,12,23,9,13,76,45,{"landing":401,"resorts":410,"programmes":469,"destinations":470,"concern":600,"modality":629,"destination":630,"related":671},{"slug":402,"kind":403,"h1":404,"title":405,"description":406,"placeName":407,"countrySlug":408,"country":86,"destinationSlug":84,"concernSlug":218,"resortSlugs":409},"gut-health-retreats-in-karlovy-vary","concern-destination","Gut health retreats in Karlovy Vary","Gut Health Retreats in Karlovy Vary — The Shortlist","Which houses in Karlovy Vary treat gut health seriously, the right season, and the minimum stay worth booking.","Karlovy Vary, Czechia","czechia",[179],[411],{"slug":179,"name":180,"destinationSlug":84,"area":412,"country":86,"modalities":413,"character":167,"knownFor":414,"why":415,"signature":420,"typicalNights":421,"priceNote":422,"accolades":423,"honest":425,"relationship":151,"confidence":426,"image":427,"imageAlt":428,"greatFor":429,"whoShouldGo":434,"team":435,"roomTypes":436,"facilities":446,"dining":453,"activities":460,"arrival":466,"destinationName":85,"programmeCount":42},"The end of the colonnade promenade",[81],"The grand hotel at the head of the Karlovy Vary promenade — the town’s social centre for two centuries, and its most recognisable building.",[416,417,418,419],"It anchors the colonnade walk that IS the drinking cure: the whole town is arranged around walking between springs, and the Pupp sits at the end of it.","A spa wing offering the classical Karlovy Vary treatments — carbon-dioxide baths, peat, and the mineral-water protocols — alongside the hotel.","It is the practical base for a three-week cure for anybody who does not want a socialist-era sanatorium, which is the town’s other main option.","Its film-festival association keeps it in international view in a way no other Czech spa hotel manages.","A base for the classical drinking cure, with the colonnades and the Vřídlo geyser a short walk away.","7–21 nights","Mid band by European spa standards; the medical cure is priced separately from the room. Indicative.",[424],"The defining building of the Karlovy Vary promenade","The hotel is not the cure. The medicine here belongs to the spa physicians and the springs, and a grand hotel room does not make the water work better — several plainer houses in town deliver the same prescribed course for a fraction of the price. Book the Pupp because you want to be comfortable for three weeks, not because you think it is the treatment.","medium","photo-1541849546-216549ae216d","Rooftops and towers of a Bohemian spa town",[430,431,432,433],"The Bohemian spa tradition","Grand architecture","The drinking cure","A cultural stay","Somebody who wants the classical Central European spa town experience — colonnades, mineral water, a grand hotel with two hundred years behind it — rather than a clinical programme. The medical cure in Karlovy Vary happens at the sanatoria; the Pupp is where you stay while you take it.","A spa and balneology department in the hotel, with the town’s medical spa physicians available for the classical prescribed drinking cure. The serious cure is a doctor-led course at a sanatorium and we will book that separately where it is what you need.",[437,440,443],{"name":438,"note":439},"Classic room","In the older wings, and the reason to stay here.",{"name":441,"note":442},"Deluxe room","Larger, on the river or the forest side.",{"name":444,"note":445},"Suite","The grand categories, several of them with their own history.",[447,448,449,450,451,452],"Balneology and spa department","Pool and thermal area","Grand ballroom and concert hall","Casino","The Diana funicular a short walk away","On the Teplá river in the middle of the colonnades",[454,457],{"name":455,"note":456},"Grandrestaurant","A nineteenth-century dining room and a menu to match. Formal, and the correct thing to do once.",{"name":458,"note":459},"Café Pupp","The spa wafers, the coffee and the Becherovka.",[461,462,463,464,465],"The colonnade drinking circuit","Moser glassworks","The Diana tower","Loket castle","The film festival in July",{"airport":467,"code":88,"transfer":468},"Prague (Václav Havel)","Two hours by road on the D6",[],[471],{"slug":84,"name":85,"place":472,"country":86,"countryCode":473,"cluster":79,"fame":41,"modalities":474,"hook":475,"caseFor":476,"hardFacts":481,"caveat":487,"season":488,"seasonNote":489,"practical":490,"figures":503,"faqs":516,"image":427,"imageAlt":428,"gallery":523,"coords":535,"gateway":538,"tempC":560,"climateNote":565,"leisure":566,"extensions":588,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42},"The colonnades, West Bohemia","CZ",[81],"The most complete surviving example of the drinking cure — a whole town organised around a porcelain cup rather than a bath.",[477,478,479,480],"It treats internally rather than externally. Around eighty mineral springs rise in the town and fifteen or sixteen are tapped for drinking, cooled to fixed temperatures in the colonnade bowls and taken to a prescription: which spring, what volume, how many minutes before eating.","The Vřídlo geyser surfaces at 73.4 °C and throws a column of water nearly twelve metres into the air. Standing in front of it makes the point that this is geology rather than decor.","It is a working medical system, not a heritage attraction. Czech statutory insurers fund komplexní lázeňská péče — complex spa care covering treatment, accommodation and full board for 21 or 28 days.","Also a UNESCO Great Spa Town, inscribed with Baden-Baden in 2021, and unlike much of that list the colonnades are still used by patients rather than by coach parties alone.",[482,483,484,485,486],"Town privileges granted by Emperor Charles IV on 14 August 1370.","UNESCO \"The Great Spa Towns of Europe\" (ref. 1613), inscribed 24 July 2021.","The Vřídlo geyser rises at 73.4 °C and jets to nearly 12 m. The often-quoted 2,000 litres a minute appears to describe the town’s springs combined rather than Vřídlo alone — treat that figure as contested.","Roughly 80 mineral springs; 15–16 tapped for public drinking, cooled to 50 °C and 30 °C in the colonnade bowls. Vřídlo is the only spring used for baths.","Czech statutory insurance funds complex spa care for 21 or 28 days, or contributory care covering procedures only.","This is a working medical spa, not a leisure resort, and it is the least sybaritic destination on this atlas. The water is warm, salty-bitter and mineral-heavy; a real cure runs three weeks; and no Western European or US insurer will reimburse it. The hotel stock is polarised between grand restorations and tired socialist-era sanatoria, and early July collides with the international film festival, when the town fills and rates spike.",[41,42,41,41,23,23,42,41,23,23,42,41],"The cure is a walking cure — colonnade to colonnade, six to eight glasses a day — so it wants dry, mild weather. May, June, September and October are the window. Avoid early July for the film festival, and November to February for a cold valley and a walk that becomes an endurance test.",[491,494,497,500],{"label":492,"value":493},"Getting there","Prague (PRG) then just over two hours by road; a direct transfer is included. Nuremberg and Frankfurt are viable by rail.",{"label":495,"value":496},"The cup","You will be given a porcelain lázeňský pohár with a drinking spout. Everybody carries one. It is not a souvenir.",{"label":498,"value":499},"The prescription","A spa physician assigns springs, volumes and timings on day one and revises them. Drinking the wrong spring at the wrong strength is not neutral.",{"label":501,"value":502},"Length","The traditional course is 21 to 28 days. Fourteen is the shortest we will sell and the physicians here consider that brief.",[504,507,510,513],{"value":505,"label":506},"1370","Town privileges",{"value":508,"label":509},"73.4 °C","Vřídlo temperature",{"value":511,"label":512},"~80","Mineral springs",{"value":514,"label":515},"21–28","Traditional course, days",[517,520],{"q":518,"a":519},"Does drinking mineral water actually treat anything?","For specific digestive, metabolic and hepatobiliary complaints, in specified concentrations, there is a real if modest literature — and Czech medicine treats it as a therapy with indications and contraindications rather than a general tonic. It is not a cure for anything, and any property that says otherwise should be avoided.",{"q":521,"a":522},"Fourteen nights or twenty-eight?","The tradition says twenty-one to twenty-eight and the physicians here will say the same. We will sell fourteen if that is what you have, and we will also tell you that you are taking the short version of a long protocol.",[524,526,529,532],{"src":427,"alt":525},"Bohemian rooftops in the old town",{"src":527,"alt":528},"photo-1441974231531-c6227db76b6e","Woodland above the valley",{"src":530,"alt":531},"photo-1571896349842-33c89424de2d","A thermal pool at dusk",{"src":533,"alt":534},"photo-1439066615861-d1af74d74000","Still water in the wooded hills",{"lat":536,"lng":537},50.23,12.87,{"airport":539,"code":88,"city":540,"routings":541,"transfer":558,"flightNote":559},"Václav Havel Prague","Prague — Karlovy Vary is two hours west by road",[542,546,550,554],{"from":543,"how":544,"time":545},"London & western Europe","Direct to Prague from every major city, hourly from London.","2 hours",{"from":547,"how":548,"time":549},"The Gulf & India","Direct to Prague from Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi; one stop from India.","6–7 hours from the Gulf",{"from":551,"how":552,"time":553},"North America","Direct seasonally from New York; otherwise one stop through a European hub.","9 hours",{"from":555,"how":556,"time":557},"Germany & Austria","Road or rail — Nuremberg is three hours, Vienna four.","3–4 hours","Two hours by road from Prague on the D6, and we send a car rather than putting you on the bus. The direct rail line is slower than the road and not worth it.","A Czech spa stay of three weeks or more is the classical prescription and it makes the flight a small part of the cost — which is the argument for flying into Prague, taking two nights there, and arriving at the spa rested rather than off a red-eye.",[41,13,561,397,562,563,395,395,562,397,564,23],8,18,21,6,"Continental and properly cold in winter — the valley holds frost. May to September for the town and the colonnades; the cure itself runs year-round and is cheapest in the cold months.",[567,572,576,580,582],{"name":568,"kind":569,"duration":545,"note":570,"when":571},"The colonnade walk","culture","Mlýnská, Tržní, Sadová and the Vřídlo spring hall, with a porcelain cup and a straw spout. The drinking cure is free and the cup is the souvenir.","any",{"name":462,"kind":569,"duration":573,"note":574,"when":575},"Half day","A working furnace since 1857 with a visitor gallery over the floor. The best hour in Karlovy Vary and almost nobody outside the Czech Republic knows it is there.","rest-day",{"name":577,"kind":578,"duration":545,"note":579,"when":571},"The Diana tower funicular","nature","Up through the woods above the Grandhotel for the whole valley from above, and a network of marked forest walks to come down by.",{"name":464,"kind":569,"duration":573,"note":581,"when":575},"A thirteenth-century castle on a rock in a river bend, twenty minutes away, and the walk along the Ohře back towards town is the good part.",{"name":583,"kind":584,"duration":585,"note":586,"when":587},"Becherovka, at the museum","food","90 minutes","The herbal bitter made here since 1807 and known locally as the thirteenth spring. A tasting after a fortnight of mineral water is a genuinely funny experience.","after",[589,594,597],{"name":590,"nights":591,"note":592,"side":593},"Prague","3 nights","Two hours away and unavoidable on the routing. The castle at opening, the Jewish quarter, and a night at the Rudolfinum.","either",{"name":595,"nights":591,"note":596,"side":587},"The west Bohemian spa triangle","Mariánské Lázně and Františkovy Lázně — UNESCO-listed with Karlovy Vary as the Great Spa Towns of Europe.",{"name":598,"nights":591,"note":599,"side":587},"Vienna","Four hours south, and the other half of the Habsburg spa story.",{"slug":218,"name":219,"group":220,"said":221,"lede":601,"body":602,"whatHelps":606,"expect":613,"nights":619,"caution":620,"programmeSlugs":621,"resortSlugs":625,"image":626,"imageAlt":627,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":628},"The concern where the Central European tradition is strongest, and where the diagnostic work is the product.",[603,604,605],"Modern Mayr medicine is built on a specific and testable idea: that a large amount of general unwellness is digestive in origin, and that resting, cleansing and retraining the digestive tract changes it. The clinical practice involves a physician’s abdominal examination, laboratory work, a staged diet reduced to something very plain, and manual abdominal treatment — and it is genuinely medical rather than a spa package with a juice attached.","The Ayurvedic answer arrives at similar territory by another road. Agni — digestive fire — is the organising concept, and a Panchakarma is in large part a digestive intervention: oil, a narrowing diet, a removal, then a slow structured re-feeding in a specific order that matters more than guests expect.","The honest position on both is that they help a great many people with functional complaints and neither is a diagnosis. If nobody has yet excluded coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease or anything structural, that work belongs at home and belongs first.",[607,609,611],{"modalitySlug":112,"why":608},"Physician-led, with diagnostics and laboratory work on site, a staged prescribed diet, and manual abdominal treatment. The most rigorous option in this atlas for a digestive complaint.",{"modalitySlug":11,"why":610},"A full Panchakarma is substantially a digestive intervention, and the samsarjana krama re-feeding at the end is the part that consolidates it.",{"modalitySlug":81,"why":612},"The Karlovy Vary drinking cure is prescribed for digestive and metabolic indications and has been for four centuries; taken properly it is a doctor-led course, not a stroll along a colonnade with a cup.",[614,615,616,617,618],"A physician’s abdominal examination on arrival, and laboratory work at both ends if you are at a Mayr house.","A diet that gets much plainer and much smaller before it gets more interesting. You will be hungry.","Chewing at length, taught as a technique. It sounds ridiculous and it is central to the method.","Manual abdominal treatment most days.","A written protocol for the weeks after, because the re-feeding is where this is won or lost.","Fourteen nights for a Mayr cure — it is the length the method is written around. Ten if you genuinely cannot, and the physicians will tell you what that costs you.","Get a diagnosis first. Unexplained weight loss, blood, a change in bowel habit lasting more than a few weeks, or pain that wakes you at night are all reasons to see a doctor at home before you book anything. A fasting cure is not appropriate in pregnancy, with a history of an eating disorder, with type 1 diabetes, or on several common medications without adjustment — declare everything and let the house’s physicians decide.",[622,623,624],"lanserhof-mayr-cure","park-igls-metabolic","somatheeram-classical-panchakarma",[192,195,130,179],"photo-1596040033229-a9821ebd058d","Dried herbs and spices prepared for treatment",{"amount":223,"currency":17},null,{"slug":84,"name":85,"place":472,"country":86,"countryCode":473,"cluster":79,"fame":41,"modalities":631,"hook":475,"caseFor":632,"hardFacts":633,"caveat":487,"season":634,"seasonNote":489,"practical":635,"figures":640,"faqs":645,"image":427,"imageAlt":428,"gallery":648,"coords":653,"gateway":654,"tempC":660,"climateNote":565,"leisure":661,"extensions":667,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42},[81],[477,478,479,480],[482,483,484,485,486],[41,42,41,41,23,23,42,41,23,23,42,41],[636,637,638,639],{"label":492,"value":493},{"label":495,"value":496},{"label":498,"value":499},{"label":501,"value":502},[641,642,643,644],{"value":505,"label":506},{"value":508,"label":509},{"value":511,"label":512},{"value":514,"label":515},[646,647],{"q":518,"a":519},{"q":521,"a":522},[649,650,651,652],{"src":427,"alt":525},{"src":527,"alt":528},{"src":530,"alt":531},{"src":533,"alt":534},{"lat":536,"lng":537},{"airport":539,"code":88,"city":540,"routings":655,"transfer":558,"flightNote":559},[656,657,658,659],{"from":543,"how":544,"time":545},{"from":547,"how":548,"time":549},{"from":551,"how":552,"time":553},{"from":555,"how":556,"time":557},[41,13,561,397,562,563,395,395,562,397,564,23],[662,663,664,665,666],{"name":568,"kind":569,"duration":545,"note":570,"when":571},{"name":462,"kind":569,"duration":573,"note":574,"when":575},{"name":577,"kind":578,"duration":545,"note":579,"when":571},{"name":464,"kind":569,"duration":573,"note":581,"when":575},{"name":583,"kind":584,"duration":585,"note":586,"when":587},[668,669,670],{"name":590,"nights":591,"note":592,"side":593},{"name":595,"nights":591,"note":596,"side":587},{"name":598,"nights":591,"note":599,"side":587},[672,679],{"slug":673,"kind":674,"h1":675,"title":676,"description":677,"placeName":86,"countrySlug":408,"country":86,"concernSlug":218,"resortSlugs":678},"gut-health-retreats-in-czechia","concern-country","Gut health retreats in Czechia","Gut Health Retreats in Czechia — What Actually Helps","The houses in Czechia that treat gut health properly, how long a stay actually needs to be, and where the evidence runs thin.",[179],{"slug":304,"kind":680,"h1":305,"title":681,"description":682,"placeName":86,"countrySlug":408,"country":86,"modalitySlug":81,"resortSlugs":683},"modality-country","The thermal kur Retreats in Czechia — Honestly Compared","Where the thermal kur is genuinely practised in Czechia, which houses do it properly, and what the evidence actually supports.",[179],1788869507955]