Abstract
BACKGROUND: To provide the population with inexpensive and effective medical products of domestic production is one of the most important public health tasks. These may include therapeutic muds, the high therapeutic value of which is confirmed by many years of positive experience with peloid therapy. The basis for interest in therapeutic muds is their efficiency in treating many diseases and regularly discovered new opportunities for their use. OBJECTIVE: To strive to streamline the use of previously discovered therapeutic muds in Kazakhstan, to search for new hydromineral resources, and to register the latter as minerals. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The material was the results of the analysis of published data on studies of therapeutic muds, their use for medicinal purposes in sanatorium and extrasanatorium conditions, which had been prepared during the grant financing project 'Development of an innovative procedure for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of therapeutic muds in Southeastern Kazakhstan as hydromineral raw materials' (IRN AR 05130934) in 2018. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The paper provides a brief description of the results of the study of therapeutic mud deposits in Western Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan, and the Almaty Region. It gives the main list of diseases in which the use of mud therapy is effective.