Coniferous bath - a pleasant aroma and revitalizing effect

Bath with the addition of pine needles is not only a pleasant aroma, but also a therapeutic effect. Its effect is due to the essential oils released during procedures from the coniferous substrate. In addition, such a bath has a lot of vitamins, mineral salts, trace elements and tannins.

Bath with pine needles, if it is prepared correctly, is useful for the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as for the nervous system.

The effects of such a bath are many:

• it is excellent for calming the nerves;
• helps to cope with colds;
• promotes faster removal of toxins;
• stabilizes the metabolism;
• it is useful for general recovery;
• to get a slim figure;
• activates the function of many internal organs;
• eliminates fatigue;
• improves sleep;
• It has a positive effect on the skin, for example, it softens, smoothes and tones it;
• Due to the positive impact on the blood vessels these baths can be performed with thrombophlebitis and varicose veins, as well as with hypertension;
• It is useful for pathologies of the joints;
• for faster healing of wounds.

Among the indications for baths with the addition of pine in the first place are diseases of the nervous system. These baths are appointed for neurasthenia, neurosis, insomnia, sciatica, fatigue, IBS, depression, irritability, asthenia.

In addition, pine bath will benefit overweight, rheumatism, inflammation of the joints, asthma, gout, respiratory system diseases, inflammation of the bladder or kidneys, skin lesions, ulcers, frostbite, chronic gynecological diseases, eczema, the initial stage of hypertension. It helps relieve spasms in the gastrointestinal tract, and is recommended for children to prevent hypotrophy and rickets. Useful course of pine baths for people who have recently suffered a serious illness and are undergoing rehabilitation.

To prepare such a version of a therapeutic bath, you can use different types of raw materials. This can be a pine balsam, concentrate or extract, special briquettes or tablets. Also for the baths are used coniferous sets, which are crushed branches, cones and needles.

If you make a spruce bath with pills or a briquette, First collect about two hundred liters of water with a temperature of 35 to 37 degrees Celsius. Then add to the water two tablets containing pine extract, or coniferous briquette (60-80 grams). After stirring the water well, you can take the procedure. If you have chosen the liquid balsam as a basis for the procedure, then add it to the water in an amount of about 100 ml.

Preparing a bath based on a natural collection requires a little more effort, but is more natural, so has a better effect. To prepare the concentrate should be about 1 kg of pine needles pour 7-8 liters of water, then boil for thirty minutes and leave to infuse for 10 hours. You can prepare such a broth in the morning, and take a bath with him - in the evening. To do this, strain off the needles, and the resulting infusion poured into a bathtub full of water.

Immerse yourself in the bath so that the chest and heart area remain uncovered by water.

Before the bath, cleanse your body by taking a shower. The procedure itself should last up to 15 minutes, but you should always consider how you feel. The water temperature should not be higher than +37 degrees. At the end of such a bath it is desirable to take a cool shower and go to bed, so usually water procedures with pine are recommended to perform at night.

If you conduct a course of coniferous baths, it often includes 10-15 sessions performed every other day or every day. Such a course can be repeated once every 6 months. Prophylactically, you can take a bath with the addition of pine needles once a week.

This type of bath uses natural pine needles, to which is added sea salt. These baths are of great benefit, because they have two beneficial components on the body at once. Salt baths with pine needles are recommended for diseases of the skin, joints and nervous system. For adults, they can be a help for nervous overload, and in childhood - a good prevention of rickets. They are also recommended for overweight.

To make such a bath you need sea salt (300-500 grams) and natural pine (about 500-700 grams) or pine balsam (about 100 ml). This amount of components is calculated for two hundred liters of water.

The temperature of the bath is set to +37 degrees. Take it before going to sleep (40-60 minutes), so that at the end of the bath to rinse quickly, wipe the body and go to bed.

The duration of the procedure is 10-15 minutes. For children and the concentration of substances, and water temperature, and reception time is reduced.

Bathing with pine needles can be carried out and children, but it should be appointed only by a specialist. With this type of bath can prevent or help in the treatment of certain diseases. Coniferous bath has a beneficial effect on the nervous system of the child, reduces excessive excitability, eliminates insomnia, has a calming effect, improves the health of the baby. It is also good for the respiratory and circulatory systems.

Children coniferous baths are carried out according to these rules:

• Assign the procedures should only be a doctor.
• The procedure is taken sitting down, and it is preferable to use a special chair placed in the bathtub.
• The procedure should be done after a meal (after at least 1 hour), but not when hungry.
• The child should be in a calm mood. If during the procedure the child gets nervous, the bath should be stopped immediately.
• Bathing with pine needles for children carried out in the evening (preferably - before going to bed one hour).
• Water should be no more than 100 liters, so that the child was immersed in water up to his waist.
• The temperature of the water should be set at a temperature of +34 +35 degrees (up to +37 degrees).
• The procedure should last no longer than 10 minutes.
• A total of 12-15 coniferous baths, every other day.
• Preparation of a coniferous bath for a child involves a smaller concentration. You need to take up to 400 g of natural coniferous collection, up to 2 ml of extract (per 10 liters of water) or up to 2/3 of a tablet.
• When giving a bath to a child, you should not change the doctor's prescription (water temperature, duration of the procedure), or allow the child to actively play in the water.
• Baths with pine needles are often not recommended for newborn children, as they are given to children over 1 year old, but there may be exceptions, so it is worth checking with your doctor.
• At the end of the procedure, the child's body should be rinsed with water.