Wiping with salt water helps improve peripheral circulation, tissue trophism, increased metabolism. This procedure is not recommended for patients with increased nervous excitability, heart defects, after recent acute illnesses (for example, pneumonia).

To strengthen the body's response, this procedure is carried out using salt or sea water (0.5 kg salt per 1 liter of water). To wipe the body or a part of it, put a linen sheet moistened with salt water and carefully wrung out. Immediately on top of the sheet the body is vigorously rubbed with hands until the sensation of heat. Then the sheet is removed, doused with water and thoroughly rubbed with a coarse cloth.

Salt wiping Weak procedures (especially children) are done by others. If the patient's condition allows, the whole body is wiped by parts with a moistened and well-wrung towel or mitten, and then rubbed with a dry towel and covered with a sheet and a blanket.

To enhance the response of the body after a general wipe, sometimes poured 1-2 buckets of water, the temperature should be slightly lower than the one that wetted the sheet when rubbed. This procedure is refreshing and toning. It is sometimes prescribed for hardening purposes.

The procedure for wiping start with water at a temperature of 32-30 ° C, gradually reducing it to 20-18 ° C and below. Duration - 3-5 minutes.

This wiping is usually applied before the course of hydrotherapy, and also as an independent course of treatment for patients with overwork, neurasthenia, asthenic condition, reduced metabolism (with obesity).

Very useful for wiping overnight with salt water (0.5 kg of salt per 1 liter of boiling water). 30 minutes after the procedure, take a shower.

For skin rejuvenation, you can rub the body with such a mixture: 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt, 2 tablespoons. spoons of apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp.. a spoonful of honey for 1 liter of boiling water.

Hot wiping with salt water. In order to energize the body with heat or, conversely, to remove excess heat from it, a hot wiping of the body or its parts. The procedure is as follows:.

Lower your legs into a basin or a bath with warm water;.

a towel soaked in hot water to attach to the body - on the back, chest, hands, face, neck.

For enhanced therapeutic effect, use hot salt (or sea) water.

Such wipes give a feeling of warmth, if you need it, and if you have accumulated heat - it is taken out. Salt hot sweating - an indispensable remedy for summer heat, stuffiness, lethargy.

Salt wiping: treatment and rejuvenation Salt mixtures for grinding.

Water-alcohol salt mixture.

Prepare a water-alcohol solution: 500 ml of water, 250 ml of alcohol or vodka, 1 st.. spoon of salt, 20 drops of iodine. Mix everything thoroughly. Store the solution in a cool place.

In the morning after the shower, wipe the entire body from head to toe with a stiff washcloth soaked in this solution. In the region of the heart, without pressing, do 40 circular movements clockwise.

Do not rinse or rub off, dress.

In the evening before going to bed, take a shower, otherwise the heat coming from the body will not let you fall asleep.

Rinsing done from autumn to May, that is all the cold season. Water-alcohol salt rubbing is recommended to strengthen weakened and often catching children.

Another version of the mixture.

Its composition is as follows: 500 ml of water, 3 tbsp. spoons of vodka or alcohol, 1 h. spoon (top) of sea salt, 3-5 drops of iodine.

Mix everything.

Once a day (in the morning), wipe the baby with a tissue moistened with this solution.

In the evening, rinse the remains of salt from the skin in the bath or under the shower.

Cold acetic-salt wraps.

This is a very powerful healing procedure. Easy to use, it is perfectly possible to do it at home.

Acetic-salt wraps can be treated with the following diseases: influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, arthritis, gout, nephritis, angina pectoris.

In chronic cases, wraps will have to be repeated many times, whereas in acute cases often only 2-3 procedures lead to complete recovery.

The procedure is as follows: a 9% vinegar bottle is poured into the dishes, exactly twice as much cold water is added. Now take the salt from the calculation of 1 st. spoon per liter of solution. The composition can be used as a rub for headaches, bruises, insect bites.

Dip in this solution a large sheet, so that you can wrap the patient completely. Prepare and lay out on the bed a few blankets, if possible woolen. On top, spread a sheet soaked in a solution.

You can put on your feet cotton socks, also soaked in a solution, on top - a few pairs of woolen socks.

Wrap the patient in a wet sheet to the armpits. Try to lay a sheet between your legs, hands along the trunk. The other side of the sheets try to cover your arms and neck to the cheeks to cover the glands - the main gate of the lymphatic system. The wrap must be tight.

Over the sheets of the patient swaddled in blankets - one after another. On your head, put on a warm hat, preferably woolen.

First there will be a feeling of cold, but very quickly heat will come, as a result of which the body warms up to the depth of tissues and capillaries. At the same time, the skin is in close contact with a moist, acidic-saline medium that is harmful to microorganisms. From deep warming, the movement of blood and lymph along the body is accelerated, the pressure in the vessels increases, toxic waste is accumulated from the vessels, joints, and other tissues accumulated during the illness. On the face appears perspiration.

The procedure should take at least three hours.

At the end of the procedure, you should thoroughly wash yourself with soap and a washcloth, drench with cool water so that the pores are closed, dry your clothes and get dressed easily..

If you felt a surge of lightness, a feeling of health and strength appeared, it means the procedure went right.

This procedure can be carried out independently. To do this, you need to wear a cotton shirt, soaked in a solution, and pants, and on top - woolen sweaters and a jacket, wrapped in blankets. On your head put on a woolen hat, on your hands - woolen mittens. And be sure to wrap your throat with a tissue moistened with this solution so that the glands are in the area of ??action.

Aqueous salt solution.

Used for compresses, bathtubs, washing liquids. In therapeutic practice, the following salinity degrees of solutions.

Fizraskvor - 0,9-1% of the salt.

Hypertensive solution - 1,8-2% salt.

Sea solution - 3.5% salt.

A saturated solution is so much salt that it no longer dissolves.

Salt in the form of a water gruel.

To the ground salt, water is added dropwise until an aqueous slurry of salt. Such a mixture is used to treat wounds in the oral cavity, brushing teeth and gums, facial cleansing, that is, in all cases where, when salt is used externally, it is necessary to achieve a high salt concentration at the application site.

Salt in the form of oil mush.

In the salt are added various oils (olive, sunflower, soybean, fish oil) and aromatic oils (fir, mustard, eucalyptus, sage, violet oil). Such mixtures are used for cosmetic purposes, for the treatment of pulmonary diseases (inhalation), for the treatment of external skin diseases and defects, and also for cleaning teeth.

Salt mixed with fat.

Salt is mixed with a submerged animal fat. The recipe is: 100 g fat - 1 st. chopped ground salt. Such mixtures are used to lubricate arthritic joints, wounds, with eczema.

Mixture of salt and flour.

Mix simple table salt with flour in a 1: 1 ratio, add a little water, mix a very steep dough. Such a salt-flour mix, used as an application to a sore spot (gouty joint, sprain, and t. ), quickly relieves acute pain.

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