Water procedures The means of external cleansing of yoga include external water procedures, which are of great importance. If the skin is not regularly cleaned, then the work of the sebaceous and sweat glands becomes difficult, conditions are created for the reproduction of microbes and various problems arise.

You can’t start a romance at such a “resort”, but ...

A working person is entitled to a vacation once a year, and everyone wants to spend it in such a way that it is not excruciatingly painful for wasted money. Relax, improve your health. But in sanatoriums it’s boring, and “in the wild” harmful excesses are inevitable ...

And if you do the opposite: take wellness procedures at home so that you can relax more freely on a long-awaited vacation? Say, our capital has nothing to do with the resort? Wrong!

“We had a good rest, but we were very tired”
And the Dead Sea, and Karlovy Vary, and hundreds of other resorts, first of all, attract us not with marvelous landscapes, but with the unique properties of specific natural factors that contribute to the cure of many diseases. Mother nature in some cases is actually the best doctor.

Meanwhile, "health tours" to any resort area are not useful for everyone. Some vacationers can hardly endure both acclimatization and a sharp change in diet. And most importantly, the procedures themselves can cause unexpected side effects - sometimes the physiotherapist who blesses the trip cannot predict them. In addition, there is no such sanatorium zone where all ailments would be treated at once.

This means that the real benefit from the trip can be extracted only when the recovery adequate to the state of the body is guaranteed. Otherwise, “at the exit” we will get the usual vacation away from home, only too generously paid.

"Do you have fresh sea water?"
Physiotherapy procedures are good as a prophylactic. It's even better when they're on time. Radon baths, for example, would be very useful at the time of exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis. But going to the resort because of the six sessions prescribed by the rheumatologist is pointless, and it will take more than one day to arrange the trip. But in a specially equipped clinic, these procedures can be obtained immediately. Like many others from the arsenal of spa treatment.

Modern medicine, paying tribute to the possibilities of physiotherapy, reasoned sensibly: if the patient does not go to the resort, why not make the resort “come” to the patient? There is no need to stock up on canned sea air, but natural sea water is needed. As well as unique healing mud - peloids, and algae, which are widely used for rejuvenation and restoration of tissues. For suppliers of medicinal raw materials, this is a profitable business, for reputable clinics - prestige and expanding the range of therapy options. Only the climate cannot be brought from the resort, and therefore climatotherapy remains perhaps the only advantage of natural forges of health.

Bath consultation
In developed countries, there are many medical institutions that in urban conditions will give odds to any medical resort, offering a much wider range of medical procedures in the complex and volume that are relevant for any patient without exception. In addition, treatment or rehabilitation at "artificial resorts" in some cases is even more effective and ... safer. There is no paradox in this. When compiling individual programs, the specialists of city clinics reinsure themselves: the commandment “do no harm” in physiotherapy is no less relevant than in any other area of ​​medicine.

Even staying in solariums, which are now open at every turn, has contraindications, but what do sunbathing lovers know about them? And what doctors of resorts and sanatoriums sometimes turn a blind eye to (“A man traveled so far, paying a lot of money!”), Will alert the specialists of the city medical center. For example, being overweight can mean a latent endocrine disease. So, before immersing the patient in the bliss of procedures, it is imperative to conduct a thorough examination. And only after that, the coordinating doctor will determine the indications for their appointment, and the physiotherapist will adjust the program, dosing the loads and verifying the compatibility of methods and areas of application.

From mud to algae
For many, the first sign of the "resort" of the physiotherapy department is the presence of healing mud. The demand for mud therapy is stable. They are traditionally used in gynecologists, urologists, proctology, otolaryngology...

“Mud wraps activate numerous processes in the body, up to the resorption of fat cells,” says Zhanna Yusova, doctor at the Swiss Medical Center in Moscow. - For example, we use highly mineralized mud from the Crimea, "live", containing natural antibiotics - beneficial bacteria, antagonists of pathogenic microbes. They contribute to the restoration of human skin and flora.

Algae successfully compete with therapeutic mud in terms of spectrum and strength of impact. The most saturated with trace elements are those that grow in the Mediterranean Sea. They make hot and cold wraps. The first creates the effect of a sauna that enhances the penetration of active substances inside, helps to model the figure, improves skin tone and elasticity, dilates blood vessels and activates blood circulation. And with a cold wrap, capillaries and blood vessels narrow, blood and lymph carry toxins and waste products to the internal cleansing organs. Cold wrap is recommended for swelling, fatigue, heaviness in the legs - that is, for the most common ailments. It is effective as a rehabilitation after vein sclerosis.

Algae wraps give excellent results in the fight against cellulite. Body shaping is a very popular procedure among women. While some are even ready for surgical removal of body fat, physiotherapists offer a gentle "vegetarian" technique.

“During the first three days of wrapping, the volume of the waist and hips decreases, sometimes up to 2.5 cm per day,” Dr. Yusova assures. – Despite the fact that in the specialized literature more modest achievements are described with a larger number of procedures. And the best results are obtained after applying a comprehensive course of treatment or rehabilitation: natural ingredients plus therapy with the latest and unique equipment.”

Luxury - yes to cellulite!
Targeted massage - with the help of special equipment and in combination with an individually composed Euro-diet - easily eliminates cellulite formations. This is also physiotherapy. Today, in the best physiotherapy departments, a device with the exotic name "Yin-Yang" is used, which breaks down fat cells with low-frequency ultrasound - with the help of nozzles that are fixed on problem areas of the body. Split cells under the action of microcurrents produced by the apparatus are excreted through the lymph. Moreover, the lymph does not stagnate in the nodes, "Yin-Yang" effectively surges.

So that the muscles do not look flabby after being freed from fat cells, they are pulled up on special simulators. At the same time, it is possible to influence a muscle group, and even a single one, pointwise. And this is not just high-level physiotherapy - this is aerobatics. A steam bath, an infrared sauna, a wooden font, a Charcot shower, a vacuum roller and many other massagers - everything that is considered an unattainable luxury in an ordinary clinic is considered as a necessary accessory in specialized medical centers. Together with a bath for balneological procedures (bathing treatment) and an underwater massage shower. All this is really necessary so that the procedures with physical activity are replaced by relaxing, rejuvenating ones. In various combinations, they make up the very medical or health-improving complexes, the effectiveness of which, according to experts, exceeds the results of staying at a specialized resort.

Anyone who has ever been in a Russian bath and felt its healing steam will surely tell you that after visiting her, a bad mood disappeared somewhere, aching joints disappeared, and other sores that until recently literally poisoned life ceased to be felt. In this case, there is an invariable desire for such pleasure to last as long as possible.

From time immemorial, Russian people went to the bathhouse not only to take water procedures. For him, it was a place for ancient customs and rituals, as well as fortune-telling. Why do people go to baths today? Let's try to understand this issue.

folk healer

Baths have been around for centuries. And people prefer to wear them not only to have a good wash. There are many adherents of this invention. And all because bath procedures have healing properties that mankind has been familiar with since ancient times.

For example, Hippocrates often appointed a steam room for his patients. He believed that toxins and poisons that accumulated in the body and poisoned it during illness would certainly leave the body due to increased sweating. It is worth saying that this ancient Greek doctor himself used the methods of treatment he developed, which allowed him to live 110 years.

Healing bath procedures were offered to their patients by the healers of Ancient Rome. They rightly believed that water together with steam (both dry and wet) creates real miracles.

In Rus', they also knew that bathing procedures bring health benefits. Our ancestors believed that a well-heated steam room can heal any patient, even the seemingly hopeless one. For a long time in Rus', bathing health procedures have been used for diseases of the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system. In the steam room they treated gout and colds, adjusted joints and got rid of skin diseases. It was believed that there is no such ailment from which a bath could not save.

Respiratory treatment

Often the only way to get rid of certain diseases are steam and hot air. That is why bathing wellness procedures are recommended for the treatment of respiratory organs. During their holding, hot steam gives the person its warmth. At the same time, the lungs warm up, pathogenic microbes lose the ability not only to multiply in the body, but also to penetrate into it.

In the Russian bath, a so-called heat stroke is created, which greatly enhances the therapeutic effect. This phenomenon occurs at the moment when liquid is poured onto hot stones located in a steam oven. And if you add various healing infusions and decoctions to the water, you can get a wonderful opportunity to inhale healing vapors.

A visit to the bath will help after an attack of bronchial asthma. In this case, it is recommended to use brooms made from tree twigs, densely covered with leaves. After all, it contains healing components that, evaporating, will cleanse the lungs of sputum, produce a powerful anti-inflammatory effect and will contribute to the disinfection of the bronchi.

Strengthening immunity

The use of bath procedures is a wonderful way to preserve human health. In order to feel cheerful and full of vitality, we all need good immunity, which will be strengthened by hardening procedures.

Even in ancient times, people paid attention to the fact that contrasting temperatures have a beneficial effect on human health. This has been confirmed by modern research. So, if a person heated up by a bath immediately plunges into the snow or into an ice hole, then the body reacts to this by releasing a huge charge of energy. At the same time, the strongest activation of vital forces occurs. Such bath procedures are useful for men and women with an inactive lifestyle. In addition, with regular conduct, such hardening will increase the body's immune forces, protecting it from colds and inflammatory diseases.

weight loss

A woman of any age wants to be slim and beautiful. But do not forget that the appearance of a person is largely influenced by his health. After all, many are unhappy with their brittle hair, poor skin condition, ugly complexion and overweight. And these are the components of health.

Bath procedures will allow you to get rid of many problems. For women, the steam room is recommended as an effective means to get rid of excess weight. Hot water enhances blood circulation, due to which a deep cleansing of the body occurs and metabolic processes are enhanced.

Baths are repeated in courses with a break of 2-3 days. They should be continued until the desired result is achieved. In between visits to the steam room, it is recommended to drink at least two liters of apple juice daily, excluding coffee or sweet tea from the diet. It is worth saying that bath procedures for weight loss are so effective that they allow you to get rid of 300 to 400 g of excess weight in one session in a steam room.

There is another way to make your body beautiful. It involves taking a cool shower after a five-minute stay in the steam room. Next, wrap yourself in a hot towel and return to the bath for another two minutes. This must be repeated at least 4-5 times. The contrasting effect of cold and heat will best destroy fat deposits under the skin, which will be excreted from the body.

Skin care

Taking a bath or shower, no doubt. However, the tap water in our homes contains chlorine, which has an adverse effect on the skin. Quite another matter - the water in the bath. It is much softer and better. In addition, the charm of this water lies in the atmosphere itself, saturated with the smell of oak trees and combined with clubs of steam and hot air.

However, water alone is clearly not enough for the skin. You need to perform this procedure with a bar of soap with the simple name "Bath". This remedy does not have special enchanting aromas, but it is most suitable for a steamed body due to the additions of natural extracts of medicinal herbs contained in it.

Many women believe that bath procedures are harmful to the skin. And to prevent exposure to hot steam, they rub oily creams into the body. However, this should not be done. A greasy cream will only clog the pores and prevent the skin from breathing normally. Bath air has the opposite effect. It cleanses the pores and therefore improves the appearance of the skin.

There is one old folk advice, using which you can get a feeling of unusual freshness. According to him, a little honey should be rubbed into the skin while performing a massage or self-massage of the body at the same time. Although simple, this procedure is very effective. It will cleanse the pores, as well as nourish the skin and relieve irritation from them.

Nail and hand care

During bath procedures, you can not only bathe. Many women use this time to take care of their hands. Of course, in public baths it is difficult to take care of yourself. But the facilities near a village or country house may well replace a small beauty salon.

So, it is recommended to use bath procedures to rejuvenate the skin of the hands, which often looks unkempt and rough. At the same time, in addition to moist and hot air, which expands the pores, it is necessary to use exfoliating and softening mixtures and compositions.

One of the simplest recommendations is an oil wrap. To perform this procedure, you will need either a fat cream or vegetable oil. After applying the product to the skin, put on cotton gloves on your hands.

The same procedure is performed for nails. Only in this case, a pinch of salt must be added to the vegetable oil. The beauty of the hands will be given by a mixture of milk and honey (1: 1) applied to their skin.

One of the anti-aging agents will be ordinary bath brooms. They are pre-soaked in water, into which they then lower their hands.

Feet care

Pleasant trips to the bath can be combined with very useful procedures. And among them there are those that are aimed at foot care. Often, all kinds of corns appear on our feet. Our feet also hurt from calluses formed when wearing uncomfortable shoes. The most suitable place to get rid of these growths is a bath. Here the legs are superbly steamed, which allows you to remove the keratinized layers from their skin.

The bath will also help those who suffer from heel spurs, which bring discomfort when walking. To eliminate such deposits on a sore spot, it is recommended to apply a compress from an alcohol tincture of lilac.

Bath procedures will help get rid of excessive sweating. This process is accompanied by a not very pleasant smell coming from the feet. To get rid of the problem after the bath, wipe the feet and skin between the fingers with an ice cube. But at the same time, it is enough to pour cold water over the legs themselves. Also recommended are foot baths with infusion left after soaking an oak or birch broom.

With overwork and muscle strain, coniferous solutions will help the legs. Baths from them will relieve the skin and bruises.

Contraindications

Bath procedures are not useful for everyone and not always. There are also some restrictions regarding general well-being and health. So, there are diseases in which visiting the steam room is strictly prohibited, and one of them is hypertension, which has reached the second or third stage. Indeed, in the bath, the body temperature rises to 38-40 degrees, and after it, blood pressure also rises. A similar condition for hypertensive patients can result not only in a worsening condition, but also in loss of consciousness, stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, etc.

Doctors also forbid those who suffer from certain cardiovascular diseases to take a steam bath from the heart. After all, everyone knows that when visiting a steam room, the pulse quickens. And this indicates an increase in the load on the heart muscle. So, trips to the bath with endocarditis, pericarditis and myocarditis are prohibited. With such pathologies, sessions in the steam room sometimes end tragically. Hot air baths are also contraindicated for those who have suffered a heart attack. Caution will be required from patients diagnosed with "arrhythmia", "angina pectoris", "atherosclerosis of the coronary vessels and aorta".

What other bathing procedures have contraindications? With bursitis and other inflammatory diseases, you should seek the advice of a doctor. The choice of a specialist will depend on the degree and severity of the disease.

Doctor's recommendations regarding the possibility of visiting the steam room will be needed for anemia and infectious diseases. But a categorical ban on such trips exists in patients with asthma, dermatitis and eczema.

Falling asleep during bath procedures is also contraindicated. It will not bring health benefits and will significantly increase the load on the heart and blood vessels.