"Small" hydrotherapy.
These procedures - all kinds of washing and rubbing - are considered everyday. Despite their simplicity and accessibility, they have significant physiological effects on the entire body and stimulate the activities of many functions of life. They also harden a person and are a means of preventing colds. Since these procedures excite the sympathetic nervous system, their use facilitates the transition from night rest to active labor, they have a beneficial effect on the circulatory system in healthy individuals, at high ambient temperatures, refresh the body and, despite local application, increase the tone of all blood vessels .
These procedures are recommended for daily care of the body for healthy people, for tempering children, for caring for febrile patients, for suffering cardiovascular diseases and even more for severe lying patients, for people with increased nervous excitability, suffering from increased functions (hyperfunction) of the thyroid gland, recovering and weakened after illness.
For all febrile conditions accompanying hypothermia of the hands and feet, these procedures should not be used at all or only when the limbs are heated in advance by rubbing. After the washing procedure, it is necessary to achieve the fastest warming of the body (extra blanket, plaid, woolen clothes, socks, warmer, etc.).
Cold washing.
Soaked in tap water with a towel (napkin), you should first wash your face and body, then hands and feet, each time starting with your fingers. Wash the tissue every time before processing the next part of the body. Duration of washing is not more than 1-2 minutes. After the procedure, wipe dry only the face and neck, for about 20 minutes, go to bed or dry yourself wipe the entire body with a terry towel, get dressed and use the movements to warm up well.
Cold washing of bed patients and children.
Remove from the patient underwear and cover with a blanket to the neck. Moisten a towel (napkin) or a special mitten, squeeze out water so that there are no drops. First, they wash their face, neck and wipe dry. Then, after moistening the fabric, they expose one leg to the inguinal fold, wipe it, starting from the rear of the foot over the inguinal fold. The soles are washed with a separate napkin. A foot, not wiping, cover with a blanket. From the fingertips from the palm side to the shoulder, they wash their hands and, without wiping, cover with a blanket. Then they wash off the leg and arm on the other side. Then the patient is seated and three or four movements wash his back, starting then the neck of the pelvis. If the patient can not sit, then the back is washed, turning the patient to the side. Lay the patient on his back, wash his chest and stomach on top and sides, then, dressing his nightgown, carefully cover the patient with a blanket. In this position, the patient should lie down for 20 minutes.
Sweating sweating.
In case of high or high body temperature (acute respiratory disease, influenza, tonsillitis), the body wash method is described 3-6 times in a row within an hour. Such washings give a push to enhance the energy metabolism. Ultimately, this leads to profuse sweating, stabilizing heat exchange, reducing fever and improving overall well-being.
Our next misconception is that we usually are afraid of all water procedures for colds, considering them "additional colds", although, in fact, this is something other than one of the most effective methods of treatment.
Contrasting body washings.
They are used to stimulate the activity of the cardiovascular system, both in healthy and sick people. Bubbling is carried out sequentially, separately every seventh part of the body (face and neck, hands and feet, back, stomach and chest) first warm, then with cold water. After this, dry the body with a towel. If you can not lie in bed, you do not need to wipe yourself. Contrasting body washing is an excellent hardening procedure for adults and children.
Pats.
This procedure combines the actions of a cold stimulus with a strong mechanical effect. The procedure is performed only in the back area for reflex excitation of respiration and a small circle of circulation in chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, stagnation in the lungs as a result of inadequate activity of the heart. Patches are recommended in the same way with fatigue of the spine because of his illness (osteochondrosis, stoop, curvature), because they improve well-being and simultaneously stimulate metabolic processes in the treated tissues of the back.
They are conducted like this. The towel is soaked in cold water, folded into a strip about 8-10 cm wide. and, waving them, lightly touch the skin of the back, starting from the shoulders to the shoulder blades, then along the spine. Perhaps you will enjoy the more rigid touches - spanking. The intensity of the touch can be adjusted depending on the state of health and sensations. The procedure can be done independently or with the help of someone close.
After patting, the back should be wiped dry and then lie in bed for 10-20 minutes.
Thus, now treated with water, really, it is fashionable and convenient. Apply water correctly and purposefully and be healthy and happy!
How to maintain the harmony of the legs.
What woman does not dream of beautiful, healthy, slender legs. Sometimes it is a gift of nature, but most often it is the result of hard work, care, gymnastic exercises and sport.
With age, the legs are less exposed than the hands to the senile changes, thanks to a more active motor function. Even if you are a passive person, the muscles of your feet are willy-nilly practiced while walking.
However, the legs have to withstand increased stresses - sometimes it is the heaviness of an excessively full body, which increases even more when wearing heaviness, and sometimes it's professional or household loads.
In order to avoid the appearance of pastness and swelling (especially the ankles), signs of blood stagnation and veins, and the skin does not dry up and peel off, they need to be properly taken care of.
First of all, in order to preserve the youthful and slender legs, one must observe their hygiene. It is advisable to wash twice with warm, and then with cold water with toilet soap and rubbing soles with pumice. After washing, you need to thoroughly drain the skin of your feet and rub the softening cream with massage movements from the fingertips to the knee and thigh.
To remove the fatigue of the legs, you need to make hot-cold baths with the addition of sea salt, pine extract, or infusion mixture: nettle, linden, pine needles and spruce. After you need to do a massage.
For legs that are prone to sweating, you need a bath with a weak solution of potassium permanganate and the infusion of the mixture: St. John's Wort, wormwood, turns, oak bark, leaves of mountain ash, mint, chamomile and calendula.
At any opportunity, you need to walk at home, out of town, on vacation barefoot, and, of course, daily do exercises against aging legs. Here is an example of some of them:
1. The starting position is standing. In turn, raise your legs and do 5 circular movements clockwise and in the opposite direction.
2. Be like: first putting socks with your feet inside; then, becoming on toes and gradually carrying the weight on the heel; just on the heels; on the inside, and then on the outside of the feet.
3. Lie on your back, bend your knees, place your feet on the floor. Hands behind head. Take a breath, raise your hips, while cutting the buttocks. Exhale, lower your hips.
4. The starting position is the same. Raise your hips, pull forward first one, then the other leg. Exhale, lower your hips.
5. Position lying on the back, hands behind the head, knees pulled up to the stomach. Roll over from side to side, transferring your weight to the thighs and buttocks.
6. Position lying on the back, hands along the body, legs stretched out. Inhale, raise your hips. Exhale, lower your hips.
7. Sit straight, put your hands on your thighs, stretch your legs. Raise alternately the right, then the left leg, imitating walking.
8. Sit up straight. Bending your knees, spread your knees. Feet together. Put your hands on your ankles and roll from side to side.
9. Sit straight, fold your arms over your chest, bend your knees bent to the left. In this position, straighten your legs and lift up in front of you. Again bend, move to the right, straighten, move to the left. Try not to deviate back.
The number of repetitions of each exercise and the rhythm of movements are determined individually, depending on the general condition of the organism and the tolerability of the loads.
If you try, make maximum efforts, then your legs will cause interest from men and envy from women. And they will give you confidence in their beauty and irresistibility. And this will definitely help to change your life for the better, because a confident person is capable of much.