A steam bath does not age. Whoever takes a steam bath does not grow old! Who can benefit from the light steam of a cedar barrel?
A bathhouse for a Russian person is not fun, it’s a way of life! Here you can get rid of a cold, take care of your appearance, and have a good rest.
First of all, decide which bathhouse you will go to. If you can tolerate heat and humid air well, a Russian steam room is suitable for you; here you can better warm up and whip yourself with a fragrant broom. But if the steam room is new to you, don’t rush to get the most out of it - it won’t take long to overdo it.
Do you react poorly to wet steam, and are you also prone to allergies? Go to the sauna: although it is hotter there (80-90 degrees versus 60-70 in a Russian steam room), the heat is easier to bear and is also healthier for breathing. In addition, the sauna promotes stronger sweating, which, in fact, is the main goal of visiting a bathhouse - to throw out as many toxins as possible from the body and cleanse the pores as much as possible.
So choose what suits you best.
You can’t do without herbal infusions in a bathhouse. You can lightly drip the aroma oil onto the stove, and then the unique smell of a pine forest or eucalyptus grove will be established in the steam room, and various masks and compresses for the face can be prepared in advance from herbal mixtures. Don’t be shy, splash some herbal infusions on the stove and smear masks on your face with all your heart.
Pine. Breathing pine air is extremely beneficial. It will save you from respiratory diseases, and the vapors of pine oil will protect your skin from various inflammations.
Juniper. In addition to its wonderful aroma, juniper vapor treats dermatitis, acne and has an antimicrobial effect. Juniper is also known as a wonderful remedy for strengthening hair.
Eucalyptus. Indispensable for colds. Eucalyptus vapors dilate the vessels of the upper respiratory tract, thereby facilitating breathing, and they also have a disinfectant effect.
Linden. It has a diaphoretic, disinfectant effect, and also perfectly calms the nervous system.
The sauna has stricter rules than the Russian bath.
First you need to take a shower, but only without soap, which washes away the fatty film that protects the skin from drying out. After which you need to wipe the body dry.
“Under no circumstances wet your head before entering the steam room, so as not to cause your head to overheat. Be sure to put a towel on your head. This will prevent possible heat stroke.”
When entering the steam room, do not lie down on the top shelf, since you need to get used to the temperature gradually. It is better to lie down, relaxing your muscles so that your legs are slightly higher than your head.
The first run should last no more than ten minutes.
First, it is better to lie on the lowest step, just lie down, so that the body is at the same temperature. Don't talk, try to relax as much as possible. You need to get up from the shelf calmly, after sitting for a few seconds.
After the first entry, go for a cold shower or to the pool, after which it’s a good idea to take a hot shower for one and a half minutes. Then rest for 20 minutes. You can drink tea with honey, kvass, mineral water.
In addition, you can visit a massage therapist. The massage procedure usually takes no more than 15 minutes.
After the second entry into the sauna for 10 minutes, take a cold shower again and relax before the third entry, after which a well-deserved rest begins and you can visit the solarium.
Attention!
Any bathhouse for you contraindicated if you have:
- vaginal infections
- ovarian dysfunction of unknown origin
- uterine fibroids
- any thyroid dysfunction
- cysts and other neoplasms
- hypertension
- stomach or intestinal ulcer
- cardiac ischemia
- urolithiasis disease
- menstruation
- high temperature (above 37.2°).
- rosacea
- psoriasis
- herpes in the acute stage
- fungal diseases of the skin or nails.
- vegetative-vascular dystonia
- glaucoma
- high grade myopathy
- cataract
- mastopathy
- vitiligo
- cough of any origin.
Sauna is contraindicated for those who:
Hot steam has not only a sanitary and hygienic, but also a health function. Let's talk about the benefits of the Russian bath in more detail...
IN Lately The traditions of visiting baths are being revived, with many amateurs giving preference to Russian steam rooms. And this is understandable, because hot steam has not only a sanitary and hygienic, but also a health function. Let's talk about the benefits of the Russian bath in more detail...
About the benefits of the Russian bath
To enhance the benefits, Russian bath lovers prepare special steam formulations: bread kvass, birch sap, decoctions of linden blossom, birch, pine needles, chamomile, mustard. And also ointments made from radish, horseradish, turpentine, tar.
Broom is the main assistant!
A special role is given to the broom. Brooms made from different types of wood or herbs have different healing effects. 
- Bird cherry broom, has the greatest bactericidal activity, in the steam room it emits a subtle aroma, but it is not flexible enough.
- Cherry broom very soft and good for massage.
- Wormwood broom useful for diseases of the digestive organs.
- Maple tones, relieves pain, is a good antiseptic.
- Ash broom helps with rheumatism, arthritis. It is good to inhale the steam from it when you have a cold.
- Hazel broom good for varicose veins and skin diseases.
- Nettle and birch brooms perfectly tone and strengthen the body, relieve fatigue.
Before the bath, it is good to brew tea with medicinal herbs - linden blossom, mint, raspberry and black currant leaves.
How to benefit from a bath?
Bath procedures begin with preparation...
Of course, if you are just starting your acquaintance with baths, first consult a doctor to get the benefits from it. Do not visit the bathhouse during exacerbation of diseases, unclear pain in the chest and high blood pressure blood.
Recently, the traditions of visiting baths have been revived, with many amateurs giving preference to Russian steam rooms. And this is understandable, because hot steam has not only a sanitary and hygienic, but also a health function. Let's talk about the benefits of the Russian bath in more detail...
About the benefits of the Russian bath
Benefits of a bath: a broom is the main assistant!
A special role is given to the broom. Brooms made from different types of wood or herbs have different healing effects.
Bird cherry broom has the greatest bactericidal activity; in the steam room it emits a subtle aroma, but it is not flexible enough.
The cherry broom is very soft and well suited for massage.
Wormwood broom is useful for diseases of the digestive organs.
Maple tones, relieves pain, and is a good antiseptic.
An ash broom helps with rheumatism and arthritis. It is good to inhale the steam from it when you have a cold.
A hazel broom is good for varicose veins and skin diseases.
Nettle and birch brooms perfectly tone and strengthen the body, relieve fatigue.
Before the bath, it is good to brew tea with medicinal herbs - linden blossom, mint, raspberry and black currant leaves.
How to benefit from a bath?
Bath procedures begin with preparation...
The heated bathhouse needs to be ventilated, then pour hot water over the stones and wait in the dressing room for about 10 minutes, at which time you can prepare a broom by soaking it in cold water so that it straightens the leaves.
Then go into the bathhouse and put him in hot water, this water will also be useful, you can rinse yourself with it after washing, or pour it on the stones. The steam will acquire a broom aroma.
Don’t rush into the steam room, lie down and warm up. Don’t go in for a long time at once; it’s better to make several short visits.
In the steam room it is good to breathe through a broom. Connoisseurs of Russian baths steam in mittens and caps.
Do not splash a lot of water on the heater at once, do not create excess steam. The ladle should be splashed in moderation.
The meaning of bath procedures is to cleanse the body and soul. Having a good steam bath, you will understand the meaning of the saying “The bathhouse is the second mother.”
Of course, if you are just starting your acquaintance with baths, first consult a doctor to get the benefits from it. Do not visit the bathhouse if your illness is exacerbating, if you have vague chest pains or if you have high blood pressure.
The one who steams does not grow old
Vlasova Nadezhda
You need to get ready for a trip to the Russian steam room.
You need to decide in advance which broom you will use for steaming, what water you will put into the heater, what tea you will drink after the bath.
You can’t go to the bathhouse after a hearty lunch, but it’s better not to go into the steam room on an empty stomach. It is optimal to eat some vegetables, fruits, porridge, and drink tea with herbs before this.
It is better to steam in the morning, at 9-11 o’clock, but if you do not have the opportunity to visit the steam room during these hours, daytime and evening time are also suitable, although the load on the heart will increase.
Traditionally, people go to the bathhouse with birch broom . This broom is indispensable for those who suffer from rheumatism; useful for pustular rashes. The released essential substances help remove mucus and improve breathing.
Linden broom - helps to quickly remove headache, causes profuse sweating, promotes wound healing, and relieves colds.
The aroma of linden has a beneficial effect on the kidneys and lungs.
Oak broom - indispensable for skin diseases. After it, the skin becomes elastic, the oily sheen disappears, as the oak broom knocks out the sebaceous plugs.
Nettle broom - an excellent remedy for radiculitis. Before use, immerse it in hot and then cold water for 5 minutes, after which you can not be afraid of its nettle burns. The lower back must be quilted carefully. Nettle broom should be used for diseases of the kidneys and joints.
Eucalyptus broom - the best remedy for colds and neuralgia. A heated (but not hot) broom can be pressed to your face, this will improve your breathing.
Coniferous broom prepared from pine, spruce, fir. With the help of such a broom you can quickly normalize blood circulation.
Those who often steam with a pine broom are guaranteed longevity.
Elm broom good for those who suffer from headaches, dizziness, and who often have cold feet and hands.
Hazel broom It makes sense to use for varicose veins, trophic ulcers, neurodermatitis, eczema.
In some cases, when it is necessary to get rid of several diseases at once, it makes sense to use combined brooms.
Teas for baths
An excellent diaphoretic is lime tea .
Quenches thirst and supplies the body useful substances mixed tea . To prepare it, you need to take 3 parts each of St. John's wort, peppermint, oregano and 1 part each of dried black elderberry and rose hips. Brew 50 g of the collection with 1 liter of boiling water.
Cleanses and fortifies the body rosehip and chamomile tea . Add dried chamomile flowers to the rose hips and infuse the mixture under the lid. After 10 minutes, strain the tea and drink with honey.
It also has diaphoretic properties rowan-raspberry tea . Dried rowan and raspberry berries, taken in equal proportions, mixed with leaves black currant and brew in a teapot.
Fragrant and restorative is tea made from oregano, St. John's wort and rosehip, drunk after the bath.
Basic rules for using a steam room
The bath procedure should begin with a warm shower, as the body needs to be warmed up. There is no need to wash with soap before entering the steam room for the first time. During the first entry into the steam room, which lasts 3-7 minutes, you should ensure that the sweat has just begun to separate; there is no need to use a broom yet.
Elderly people, children and those who are in the steam room for the first time should not immediately climb onto the top shelf; the heat below is quite enough for them. You should put a woolen cap or scarf on your head, a towel over your shoulders, and rubber slippers on your feet.
At first, it is better to lie down in the steam room for a while so that your head and legs are at the same level, you should not rise abruptly, and it is better to sit for one minute and then leave the steam room. Before each entry into the steam room you need to rest for 15-20 minutes. At this time, it is useful to drink a cup of tea with lemon. Drink tea in small sips.
When you re-enter the steam room, you can steam with a broom.
The broom must first be lifted up and shaken to warm it up to the temperature of the upper layer of air. It is better if you steam with two brooms at once.
The first stage should begin with stroking the leafy part of the broom (this is best done with the help of a partner). Apply the brooms to your feet, then slowly move them along your calves, thighs, back, and neck. Then back. Repeat the procedure 2-3 times.
Rubbing and steaming act as a kind of complex that improves heat exchange, reduces pain, stimulates sweating and warms the skin.
At the second stage, the brooms must be lowered onto the lower back and pressed for 1-3 seconds. Perform the same pressing in the area of the shoulder blades, knees and all places where there is pain.
The third stage is quilting, which is considered to be the main stage in the soaring process. You need to start quilting from the back, then move to the calves and feet. After this, fasten your stomach.
After quilting, you need to start whipping. It is distinguished by stronger pressing of the entire broom to the body. Try not to touch the popliteal fossa, the skin there is very delicate.
The procedure should be completed by lightly stroking the entire body with brooms.
Breathe in the steam room you have to try with your nose. Between visits, dousing yourself with cold water or swimming in a pool of ice water has a beneficial effect.
You will say that only a bathhouse or sauna can cope with this task? Not a fact - all this can easily be replaced by a cedar phyto-barrel! How not to catch a cold in cold slushy weather? The main thing is to observe competent prevention. One of the most pleasant, relaxing (and most importantly physiological!) methods is warming up the whole body followed by cleansing the body.
Symbiosis of sauna and herbal therapy
Cedar barrel (phytosauna)
- not only helps to get rid of many ailments, but also rejuvenates the body. Steam, saturated medicinal herbs, served in a barrel from Siberian cedar, which has a beneficial effect on the human body. After all, cedar is considered a pharmacist tree: its wood secretes phytoncides that destroy pathogens and give the air healing, health-improving properties.
When used regularly, a subtle pleasant smell of cedar is felt in the air, which in the form of aromatherapy will complement the overall relaxing effect of the procedure.
Who invented the cedar barrel?
The Slavs had their own Hippocrates and Avicennas, who left invaluable medical books and even illustrations for them. One of the clinics, preserved in Arkhangelsk, is decorated with a drawing transferred from a stone: a man is sitting in a barrel standing on stones and shrouded in a cloud of steam, and a fire is burning nearby. Stones are heated on it, placed under a barrel, and then watered with decoctions of medicinal herbs. In this way, Slavic healers treated for fever, lumbago, joint pain, angina pectoris, spinal and cervical diseases. For treatment, only cedar barrels were used, and a variety of herbal potions and decoctions were used, which were rich in forests and fields.
So it turns out that everything new is well forgotten old!
Why do you need a cedar barrel?
A sedentary lifestyle, stress, eating on the go, tobacco and alcohol lead the human body to chronic diseases. To replenish the natural reserve of protective forces, the body needs to recover.
This is very simple to do - you just have to “bathe” in the healing steam and you will feel as if you were born again.
Taking such a “steam bath” relaxes the body:
relieves muscle spasms and pain, cleanses the skin, warms even after severe hypothermia. Properly selected aromatic oils relieve headaches, nervous disorders, and are used as inhalations for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
Phyto-bottle heals through the skin
It is believed that herbs are absorbed by the body through the skin by 40% more effective than drinking an infusion of them. Warmed skin responds well to healing substances, which continue their effect even after you leave the cedar barrel. And microdrops medicinal herb, remaining on the skin, continue to penetrate into the body.
How does it work?
From the hot steam that enters the cedar barrel, the blood vessels dilate, blood rushes to the skin, muscles, joints, everything internal organs. Profuse sweating begins, the body seems to be covered with a flowing wave and you feel how waste, toxins and excess liquid come out of you along with sweat. At the same time, metabolism is normalized, the skin is cleansed and rejuvenated. Also, while sitting in a barrel, you can perform inhalations - this is the prevention of many colds and the treatment of residual effects of upper respiratory tract diseases.
Who can benefit from the light steam of a cedar barrel?
The Cedar Barrel mini-sauna can be used even by those who cannot tolerate high temperatures in a sauna or Russian bath. Do you know why? Because the head, remaining outside the barrel, is not exposed to heat. This means that you can breathe deeply, while avoiding stress on the blood vessels of the head.
However, there are also contraindications to using a cedar barrel, as there are to any procedure. Of course, everything is determined individually, but there are general contraindications:
- exacerbation of any diseases
- acute inflammatory processes
- febrile conditions
- malignant neoplasms
- diseases of the cardiovascular system during exacerbation
- thrombophlebitis
- pregnancy
- menstruation
- lactation period.
It should be noted that the temperature in the barrel has very wide “boundaries”: from 80 to 150-180 degrees. Therefore, you can choose both a light heating mode and a hot bath mode! It all depends on your indications and tolerance.
Confirmed by official medicine
The results of numerous tests carried out at the Scientific Center for Restorative Medicine and Balneology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation exceeded all expectations. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT THE “CEDAR BARREL” CAN HEAL DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, MUSTOCULAR SYSTEM, VESSELS, REDUCE WEIGHT, AND “WORK” AS A COSMETOLOGIST.
So, the advantages of a cedar barrel:
1. Quick and deep warming of the whole body - the session lasts from 15 to 35 minutes, which is very important in our fast pace of life, when we need to be on time everywhere. At the same time, you will steam like in a real bathhouse.
2. The temperature range is very wide: from 80 to 180 degrees.
3. The head remains outside, even if you cannot tolerate the hot air of the steam room (for example, the blood vessels of the brain cannot “withstand” the pressure), but you need to warm up, this option is most welcome.
4. The barrel is made of solid cedar - while warming up your muscles, you inhale medicinal vapors and strengthen your immune system.
5. For many diseases and treatment of cosmetic problems, the barrel can be used every day or every other day, gradually increasing the temperature.
6. New interesting sensations are a wonderful gift for yourself and your loved ones in any weather!
Cedar phytosauna - environmentally friendly clean method treatments taken from nature!
Nargiza Saleeva, director of the SPA-relax salon
