Bath - one of the oldest inventions of mankind. And it has long been not only a "place where the mud is washed away," but also a real wellness center. Together with aromatherapy, herbal treatment and other folk methods in the bath, the main treatment procedures were often performed. Even the ancient Greeks used the healing properties of the baths widely, a lot of scientific treatises were written on this subject, ancient doctors studied the possibilities, properties, developed methods for applying bath procedures for treating a wide variety of ailments. About the bath wrote all the famous physicians of antiquity.

In Finland, a bath has always been considered a place where a woman can save and even regain beauty and youth. The ancient Egyptian papyrus found by archaeologists about the bathhouse was called: "The initial book of the transformation of the old into the young". In ancient Egypt, with the help of a bath, obesity, joint diseases (with baths being generally available).

In ancient Greece, everyone had to visit the bathhouse, and specially appointed people followed this. The remains of these baths were preserved - stone fires around which people washed themselves. In the bath room there was also a pool with cold running water.

In ancient Rome in the bath not only steamed - the trip to the bath was considered a holiday, a ritual, a tradition. The bath procedure began with physical exercises, then the person went to the steam room, then to the pool. The visits to the steam room alternated with massage, poultices, baths, contrast procedures.

Our ancestors also did not neglect the bath. Bath was almost in every house, every self-respecting owner. Russian bath - more "extreme", effective, it fully corresponded to the character and way of life of the ancient Slavs. No swimming pools, just an ice-hole after a steam bath or pouring spring water in the summer. And no soft lips - just a broom! The most useful and curative were brooms from juniper. Baths in Scythian (in haystacks) combined a steam room with aromatherapy.

Even in the "Tale of Bygone Years" was a detailed description of the bath. Apostle Andrew, seeing the ancient Russian bath in Novgorod, was struck by the very process of soaring, pouring kvass and merciless beat by brooms.

In ancient Russia, the whole life of a man was connected with a bath, since it was believed that it is in a bathhouse that one can clean not only the body but also the soul. And if the bath did not help the patient, then "no one and nothing will help him". In the bath sheared hair and nails, then burned them, so that no one used the "dead particles" for witchcraft. By the way, it was in the baths of the girls engaged in fortune-telling and fascinating loved ones.

In Japan, the bath is also part of the national culture. The Japanese bath is a room heated with a stove with a through board floor for water drainage. The air in it is warmed up so that the water standing in the barrel (furo) is heated to 50 ° C. With this water, the Japanese are watered from above or simply washed in it.

To treat the same use of sawdust, watered with medicinal tinctures. The person is covered with wet sawdust, it sweats, and at this time the opened pores of the skin absorb the medicinal substances, the same people breathe in their pairs.

In other countries, in "Japanese baths" instead of sawdust, bags with leaves or hay are used. There are also sand baths, with the help of which joint and kidney diseases are successfully treated.

However, the most common are the Russian and Finnish baths. The difference between them is arbitrary and consists only in the degree of steam humidity. Finnish sauna (sauna) - with dry steam, and Russian - with wet. A universal bath, in which steam can be both moist and dry, has become firmly established as the most convenient and useful.

Why should a bath be included in the list of products that help a woman stay beautiful and healthy?.

In the bath, all metabolic processes of the human body are activated, tissues regeneration is stimulated, gas exchange becomes more intense, decay products are derived from each cell. Muscles and joints become more elastic, the skin breathes more intensively, allocating all toxins that are unnecessary to it. Losing excess weight - another important effect of bath procedures.

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