Sauna anf Heat baths
The sauna was a wide spread and is a treatment that can eliminate, through the sweat, the toxins and wastes from the skin, increasing perspiration. This is one of the thermal processes of the oldest and well known in various regions of the world already many centuries ago.
In modern times the traditions of the sauna have been preserved and improved especially in Finland and Russia, until, in the immediate postwar period, the fashion of the Finnish sauna has spread throughout Europe and the United States.
Contrary to what you sometimes think the sauna is not losing weight, but only liquids. Allows you to detoxify in depth, makes the skin bright and transparent and tissues more elastic. The bath heat also promotes relaxation and helps you sleep at night. With the sauna is improved blood circulation and lymphatic and increase the activity of the skin, tissues and glands.
In practice, the sauna is equivalent to a deep cleansing of the whole body and makes the skin more resistant to weather, from cold to warm, the wind smog.
It's advisable to drink before and after the sauna and before you engage in treatment take a small snack with an apple or fruit juice. Before entering the sauna is also important to take a shower, taking care to wash thoroughly the skin with soap: This allows you to prepare your skin with open pores and facilitates relaxation of the whole body.
The stove in the sauna is an essential component: can be heated with coal, firewood, charcoal or electricity. Must be accompanied by a group of volcanic rocks, which are used to distribute heat and forfeited in the environment. Every so often you must dispose of the water on the stones, water, evaporating immediately, means that the temperature in the cabin increases slightly.
To help the dilation of surface blood vessels can perquotere body with a towel or wet, as originally used in Finland, with birch branches. The branches of birch were used in spring and summer, when they are full of leaves. Before the branches are wet with boiling water.
After ten minutes it is advisable to exit the sauna, take a shower with cold water (the jet has to be sweet) to return to normal body temperature.
After the sauna usually gives you a moment of rest wrapped in a large towel or blanket, we draw on the bed. After fifteen minutes of relaxation is repeated after the treatment. After the skin is soft and elastic.
A good moisturizing cream is shown to prolong the beneficial effects on the skin.
The beneficial effects of the sauna are also on the circulation and respiration, as well as on the skin and improves resistance to infections, for colds and influences.
The whole body suffers, therefore, these positive effects that make it more energetic and active. In Germany, for example, we began to consider the sauna during the Berlin Olympics of 1936, when we find the results of the Finnish athletes who had asked to you have of cooking heat.
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