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Somewhere in Russia evergreen coniferous shrub juniper, the fruits of which are used extensively in folk medicine. In all organs of the plant contain essential oil, organic acids, tannins. Needles of juniper has antibacterial action. Preparations of juniper possess antibacterial activity. Despite the fact that the broom of the branches of juniper prickly enough, especially since there are many fans of steam such a broom. Mozhzhevelny broom helps with gout, rheumatism, swelling, rashes in the skin. Mozhzhevelny broom holds the record for the destruction of the skin bathers pathogenic bacteria.
The advantage of pine broom is that it does not need to store for future use: coniferous trees do not lose their own conifer in winter attire and can be prepared specifically to the bath, where the branches thereof broom all present there are substances in the so-called the "live" form, particular substance balsamic.
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Layman hard to imagine how you can steam in the oven. And did well and even now in certain villages do so. From the preheated oven clean coal, perfectly swept and littered grass. They put iron with enough hot water to climb on the stove and lie on the grass so that the head peeking out of the mouth. Sbryzgivayut water body of the furnace, making it dramatically increases the temperature and increasing humidity. Well, then, as everybody knows, take a birch broom and slashing them so that, as a rumor, "hell was disgusting.
Chronicler knows that the Grand Duchess Olga, wanting to punish Drevlyane who killed her husband, Igor (945), ordered a bath to heat up Drevlyane ambassadors, who would they wash, introduced themselves to her. During their ablutions on the orders of Olga lit bath and ambassadors were burned in it.
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precisely regulate the duration of stay in the steam room;
maintaining a certain temperature in the steam room;
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Massage of the pelvic girdle and lower extremities
Massage pelvic girdle begins with a massage gluteal muscle. Leather rump varies significant width, contains a large number of sebaceous glands and therefore, as noted by one of the founders of massage, "often in this area there are boils." Subcutaneous fat layer is also well developed here, that should be taken into account during the massage.
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The main method of self-massage is kneading, whereby massaged not only superficial, and deep-lying muscles. Kneading significantly increases blood circulation and lymph flow, not only in the surface layers of the skin, and even in the most deep-lying tissues. Kneading affects the appropriate departments of the central nervous system, namely, cardiovascular and respiratory centers. As a result, kneading melts most resilient muscles, ligaments, blood vessels. By comparison with other massage techniques, fulling had the most profound stimulating effect on the body, especially if Siim admission criteria to use in the bath.
Because, speaking about a massage in the bath, often just mean self-massage on it and we will dwell more.
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Head massage is divided into massage the scalp and face massage.
Massage scalp should be created in the direction of hair growth, having the fingers may be closer to the roots of hair. Initially used method of strokes, and then rubbing with a view even more than when they stroke, irritate nerve endings in the scalp, softening deposits of the sebaceous glands, and more energetic than when they stroke, clean the skin from the horn scales (dandruff). Oposlya rubbing from time to time resort to kneading, which is used in the form of sliding and stretching of the scalp (the skin is moved in different directions). For kneading of the frontal, temporal and occipital muscles of the head in a circular kneading to improve venous circulation, and lymph flow.
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Bath affect the tone of the autonomic nervous system on skin metabolism of sugar, lipids, uric acid and nitrogenous compounds in water-electrolyte metabolism, which are violated in Medicine. The alternation of the highest and lowest temperature in the bath can have a positive effect on vasomotor adaptation for temperature variations, dermatoses with disorders of the peripheral circulation (cold hands and feet, vascular spasms, etc.).
It is believed that the bath (sauna) improves trophism hair follicles, improves hair growth. As a result, stimulation of fat (tallow) and sweat glands improves lubrication and elasticity to dry brittle hair.
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Bathhouse (sauna) can be given effect at all stages of gout, with all this should take a huge amount of water. It permits to avoid overloading the kidneys and the formation of stones. Increased blood flow in the sauna can increment allocation of uric acid.
Tendons and fascia with extra burdens are also subject to morphological changes as a result of hypoxia. The matter is complicated by the fact that their tissue poorly supplied with blood vessels and it slowly occurring metabolic processes. This leads to the fact that the tendon and plantar fascia in a state of less overload. Given the temper of such action becomes clear that the bath is a good way to heal damaged tendons and fascia.
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Ichthyosis. Net effect of the baths (saunas) can be achieved with milder forms of this disease, to a greater extent in school-age kids. At puberty the effectiveness of saunas is increasing due to increased activity of the sebaceous glands (oposlya 12 years). Should be but keep in mind that due to hypofunction of the sweat glands with ichthyosis reduced heat-regulating capacity of the organism and are prone to pyoderma.
Urticaria. This disease occurs in aggregate with allergic and non-allergic components. Occasionally fever paired positive effect for all this illness, caused by the cold and metabolic conditionality. Difficult to healing of rash caused by physical factors: pressure, heat, sunlight, cold.
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Heart disease with symptoms of scarcity of blood P-III degree. Pronounced sclerosis, cerebral sclerosis in individual vessels. Angina. Hypertensive heart disease II-III degree.
Soon began to build a sauna is not only in rural areas, and in towns. Basically, these baths are designed and are being built everyday by traditional methods. But for almost all people, especially young, first time embarking on such kind of construction, the usual methods, not to mention the newest, unidentified.
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