Russian bath: benefit and harm

Bath is the most ancient invention of man, while it can exert on the body, both positive and negative. Archaeological research shows that a person has known for a long time about the properties of hot steam and uses them. Traces of structures in which a person used the heat obtained with the help of red-hot stones and water to care for the body were found in various regions. The fact that hot steam has healing properties on the body was discovered by chance. Noticing these properties, people began to use them consciously. So there was a bath procedure, bringing not only cleanliness to the body, but also relieving pain, and giving a burst of strength and energy. The theme of our today's article is "Russian bath: benefit and harm".

Modern medicine ambiguously assesses the effect of baths on humans. In the bath many processes that occur in the body change, sweating increases, circulation, respiration etc. stimulates, which helps to remove toxins from the body, relax muscles and tendons. This is important both for people engaged in sedentary work, and for the leading sports lifestyle.

Bathhouses in different countries have their own characteristics. The low temperature and very high humidity in the Russian bath, sometimes reaching 100%, prevent sweating, which is why the heat exchange is worse. Therefore, holding in the steam room for more than 15 minutes, can adversely affect the body. In the baths of other countries, for example, Finnish, Roman, Turkish, Arab, on the contrary, low humidity, no more than 25% and at the same time a very high temperature reaching 100 FROM.

In the Russian bath traditionally use brooms. Different brooms have an effect on the body and a different effect. With colds, helps birch, with various pains - oak, with many ailments are good juniper, fir and linden. Healing bath steam helps to cleanse the skin of contaminants, as well as in the renewal of cells, produces a rejuvenating effect. In this connection, the bath is considered one of the best means for skin care.

Since the bath has a warming effect on the body, doctors recommend visiting it for colds accompanied by a cough and runny nose. It helps to get rid of these symptoms faster.

Parylka also helps to restore the normal appearance after drinking a lot of alcohol, even after several days of gay feasts.

Due to the fact that the circulatory processes in the bath are faster, even a pale person comes out of the steam room with a blush on his face. And massage, which can be done with sauna brooms, is very effective.

Those who want to lose weight can also safely go to the bath, since in the thermae, up to one and a half liters of liquid are excreted from the body, and fat deposits are reduced.

The order of actions in the bath, for those who want to lose weight is this, first you need to stay 8 minutes in a therma, after which, wrapped in a towel, just not cold, sit in the waiting room, while not taking any liquid, then you sweat well. For the best effect, repeat these steps several times and the extra pounds you leave. If you supplement the bath with proper nutrition and this will become your habit, you will soon notice a decrease in weight.

In people suffering from diabetes, carbohydrate metabolism in the body worsens, for them the best option is to visit saunas from the bar, they contribute to the establishment of metabolic processes. After a person is well steamed, the body is cleansed of toxins, the skin gets rid of pollutants, the metabolism in the body improves. But do not forget that there are contraindications, for example, if a person loses weight in diabetes, he should not visit the bath in any case.

This is how the Russian bath looks, the benefits and harm from which are sometimes almost in equal proportions. In order to visit the bath did not end tragically, you should observe some safety rules, including no need to sweat, if before that you have eaten too much and drank. Alcohol has a very negative effect on the heart and blood vessels, increasing the load, and too high a temperature only strengthens this effect, which can lead to serious heart problems, especially in people suffering from hypertension. With catarrhal diseases that have passed into a more serious form, bronchitis or pneumonia, a visit to the steam room is also inadvisable. Unlike the Finnish sauna, which has many negative sides, for example, it contributes to the disruption of the cardiovascular system, and when a sauna is visited frequently, the likelihood of detecting lung cancer increases, even if they smoke little, the Russian bath has not shown much harm, which it can bring to man. But this does not mean that a Finnish bath can not do any good. After physical stress, it removes negative consequences and helps to restore normal functioning of the body, and also gives strength for more effective work.