To wash oneself in Russian baths is the same as to take off hundred kilos!

Russian baths as the way to strengthening your health and struggling with different ailments- is the custom of many nations. Russian baths and saunas are spread a lot in Ukraine. According to scientific researches was estimated that rationally done is equal to sport workout. At the   steam room gradually the loading for the cardiovascular system and other inner organs. Particularly Russian baths is useful for persons, who make sedentary activity, as far as it recover your supply of movements, enhance such as measures of variation of strength, endurance, and improve coordination of movements.

                Russian baths improves resistance of the body to the cold. Vessels get a kind of gymnastics due to the sudden change of temperature, at the sweating room they are dilated, and under the effect of cold air they are narrowed. Steam bath creates sterility environment. Proven that after a big quantity of visitors at the sweating shelf malignant bacterium were not found.

                Steam bath extends and thoroughly cleans vessels of the whole body, removes dirt, cleans upper layer of the skin that became obsolete, sphacelated cells. There is no kind of perfume can substitute Russian Baths. After several visits to Russian baths the physiological features of the skin are enhanced,  lipid exchange, blood supply is enhanced. 

                Due to the plentiful perspiration oxidizing mediums are activated- digestion of proteins is enhanced, fats,  carbohydrates, microelements, that stimulate weight loss.

                To get maximum effect from Russian Baths procedure you should follow determined rules. Doctors prescription above all. You must avoid Russian Baths procedures   during acute conditions, rise of temperature, after suffered chronic diseases, cardio diseases  with the signs of  tachycardia, high blood pressure, expressed anaemia, fainting sickness, hepatitis, skin diseases, eyes, ears,  genital system disease, when pregnant, menstruation.

                Many people forcing themselves when they are sich to go to Russian baths. But in many cases their condition become worse. Be prudent!

                Before go to the Russian baths your should eat something of low calories (fruits, vegetables, milk products).

                Experts in Russian baths say that the best way is to use bunch of green birch twigs. If the  bunch of green birch twigs is dry, then you should to drench it in the basin with hot water and only after it to pour boiling water on it otherwise leafs fall off.

                Firstly, you should spent about 5 minutes at the lowest stage, and then you can use curtains. Beginners should use sweating room for not more than 5 minutes, and those who got accustomed to about half an hour.

                Its better to have Russian baths in a couple cause use of bunch of green birch twigs needs several efforts. At the Romankiv estate real experts of Russian Baths job works!

                During the Russian Baths procedure you may loose about 1,5 litter of sweat that takes out final products of metabolism- salts,  urea etc. Sweat takes off from muscles lactic acid, that supposed to be as the main product of fatigue. Probably, that is why afterwards Russian Baths procedure you feel extraordinary  lightness in the whole body.

                At the sweating room you can make herbal inhalations- chamomile, common origanum, common St. John's wort, eucalyptus, sage.                

                And of cause Russian baths can`t be without cold water. But do not jeopardize without practice to dip into the cold pool! Afterwards sweating room to drink cold water is strictly forbidden, better hot tea with tincture of fragrant herbs.

                During all your dwell  at the sweating room must be restricted by two- three hours but not more!  During that period of time all your stages of being  in Russian Baths must meet the dead line- preparation for the Russian baths, take a steam bath, washing and rest.

                The Russian baths odyssey must be finished with soap wash. Feel yourself fresh and young. Make yourself a present of gorgeous moments.

Have a happy steam bath!

Respectfully, administration of Romankiv Estate

For some reason a lot of people underestimate civilization of Russian people, considering that it`s history being closely scrutinized think that it is absurdity ( including hygienic).  How deeply they are mistaken those sceptics!  Really Russian Baths is the most ancient  cause it`s appearance refers to the same period as the birth of Slavonic people!  The appearance of written language had not existed yet, and we can observe at the folk art mentioning of Russian Baths and it`s healing effect. As far as at the Russian Baths two most strong natural powers are combined- fire and water. Ancient  Slavonic people, as we know were    heathens by their belief and worshiped to different gods. And the most strong was god of the sun and fire and goddesses of rain and water. Combining their powers during Russian Baths procedure ancient Slavonic people attract their power and part of their strength.

 Heathen holiday of Ivana Kupala by it`s origins goes to the ancient times of Slavonic  people believes. Jumping over the campfire, our ancestors   tried to “burn” evil, clean their soul. And night bathing in the river or lake personified unity with mother nature and communion with it. Almost at all Russian heroic epics and legends we can find echoes of the ancient  believes in healing and purgatorial powers of water.   Our ancestors knew that health is connected with purity. Russian baths considered to be the keeper of  the elixir of life, purifying water and health, as far as it enhanced and direct vital strength to the need course. Russian baths in the beginning was a symbol of overcoming of all evil, that can surround man in the life on Earth, and at the more ancient it become  embodiment of welcome and heather. In Russian fairy tails Ivan firstly ask Baba-Yaga to  have a Russian baths, feed, give him to drink and let him to sleep and then start to ask him. Those signs of welcome exist at the villages till nowadays, even today the guest, who knocked to the door at first, will be brought to Russian baths, and then will be invited to the table.

                Russian baths at the life of Russian man always played such an import part, that ancient at ancient chronicles of X-XII centuries that tell about customs of Russian people always we can find references about so called soapers. Russian baths used to be “soapers”, “washers”, “wash”, “vlaznami”, “movnami”. As told in the agreement with  Byzantine Empire (dated 907) Russians purposely mentioned about that Russian ambassadors will make wash when ever why want. Russian baths are mentioned  in the “ tale of the temporal times” (year 945), and at the statutes of the Kiev lavra of the Caves monastery (966). At that ancient times monks were experienced at the matters of medicine, as far as they had a chance to read chronicles of ancient doctors of Greece, namely Greek medicine firstly noted that Russian baths has healing effect. Aiming to check gotten from ancient  chronicles information monks started to build Russian Baths and were observing what healing effect they had on the sick and   suffering persons. When healing properties were absolutely confirmed, special clinics were attached near Russian Baths, and those Russian baths were called as “establishments for feeble persons”. It  probably were first hospitals in Russian lands. Russian baths can`t be compared neither European nor Asian bath houses. Russian baths, differs from them more strongly effect on humans body. Indispensable attribute of Russian baths-  bunch of green birch twigs- beats hot bodies vigorously. It seems it`s not Russian baths but real torture. Foreigner thought in that way all the time once got in to the real Russian baths. Under the beats of bunch of green birch twigs they thought that their death has come and wait at the sill. But after they tried Russian baths foreigners felt exited.  Amazing, keen sensations, connected with Russian baths will stay for a long time with you. The fame about healing effect of Russian Baths were transmitted all over the world. Many ancient books and of our time foreigners share their feelings they got about Ukraine. Can you understand Russian character having not visited Russian Baths?

Russian baths giving it`s healing effect had gained fame of a lot of people under our country.   Admirers of Russian Baths built them in France and America. Once got into the Canada our   countryman can unburden one's heart at the Sanduna Banyas. They are build  up according to the way of Moscow Russian baths. Attracting power and healing effect of Russian baths is universally recognized. Attracting power and healing effect of Russian baths is generally acknowledged. In one of the ancient Arabic manuscripts contains reminiscences of one traveler who visited Russia and had visited and used Russian baths. He had informed us that our ancestors had organized Russian baths. … they had built wooden  house not large in size. It had only one tiny window that situated close to the ceiling. All the gaps between the logs were  caulked with the wooden caulk mixed with the wooden  moss. At the one corner was situated hearth, surrounded with stones. Also Russian baths a big barrel with water. When fire flared up the stones were sprinkled with water, and doors and windows were corked up. Russian baths admires foreigners who are accustomed to the bath  houses with  hot water. That is why Russian baths that afterwards being burned in steam room of Russian baths were dived in to ice hole were seen as powerful men.

Russian baths construction is permanent till nowadays. Just constructional implementation had changed. Russian baths are usually small, built of full logs. Russian baths usually were near the pond not to experience difficulties with water. Inner construction of Russian baths is the following- almost third part of the hole room is occupied with the wheatear.  In it`s fire box fire is burned up that heats stones that lay upstairs, and also heats inner steam room of the  Russian baths. When stones became hot, the fire is put out, the chimney is closed and starts enjoying Russian baths watering forming steam. To take a steam bath in Russian baths you must get to one of the shelves, as high you come up stairs then heater and   bracingly is the steam. At the upper stair, close to the ceiling, only the most tough and hard Russian bath goers, who can stand 100 degree heat.

This is so called white Russian bath. At the beginning it was built up only from the logs, later on Russian baths built up from bricks. First mention about Russian baths built up from brick we find  at the chronicle of the year 1090, it was built up at the Pereyaslav city.

 Everybody, even the most inveterate devotee of winter sooner or later will be tired of it. If your soul and body  asks for warmth you should go to Russian baths. And correct behavior at the sweating room can also open to you a secret to eternal youth. Or correctly to say almost eternal  youth.

Frankly talking going to Russian baths not following the rules you may get   opposite effect. For example instead of “eternal youth” you may get  at the best catch cold, at the worse heart problems. Both conditions  depends on only one- following the rules of the Russian baths.

1^st attempt

Cold body should be prepared for the high temperatures.

Most admirers of the Russian baths love sweating room to such extent that even having not took off the clothes at once runs to the steam room. But cold body must be prepared for the high temperatures in the steam room. That is why before running as possible closer to the stove you must stay for several minutes under warm shower. You should avoid use of the soap before going to the sweating room, because soap removes +

from the skin layer of fat that protects from the overdry by the steam.

1^st attempt to the sweating room must be limited by 5 minutes at the lowest stage, where the temperature is not very high. But that temperature is quite enough for the man that just came from the street. After the sweating room at once you must be wrap up into the sheet. Whipping with the bunch of green birch twigs and the pool with cold water we leave for the next repetitions.

“Without pants but with hat” –that expression was said directly for the Russian baths lovers. At the sweating room without the hat may be only those people for whom their head is not important. Cause the hat creates microclimate that protects the head from the overheat.

Having a good steam bath you may also at the Siberian pine Finnish bath (mini-sauna). By this procedure your head will stay above, due to that fact you`ll avoid negative influence of the heat on the brain vessels and respiratory system.

But, perhaps, the most widespread of the Russian baths lovers is to have Russian baths procedure in the standing position. At this position difference of temperatures at legs and head is very high. Thereby appears a possibility to get thermal shock because the head gets heated more quickly than lower part of the body. Thermal process must turned on gradually.

Elasticity and flexibility.

Having had rest for 15-20 minutes after 1^st set you may go to the steaming room again. This time we do not need a shower, but the bunch of green birch twigs you do not need also. Having landed to the upper  sweating shelf you should give your body to steam out.  

Pores are dilating, allowing to clear the body of chemical waste and to facilitate the work of the kidneys. Lungs are filled with the healing steam, while the volume of the breathed in  and used  oxygen by the soft tissues. Muscles are becoming free from the lactic acid, that is the main reason of the body fatigue. Effect of the heat on the skin we can compare with body scrub, that is why it becomes smooth and elastic. Fifteen or twenty minutes are enough to get maximum effect from those processes. And then the time for pool procedure came.

After the sweating room the pores are still widely opened, and the bath with ice cold water of the pool or shower narrow them at once. Because of this gymnastics the skin becomes elastic and flexible. Woman`s attention!-  wrinkles are smoothed away. But be careful with cold water. For lean persons it`s enough couple of seconds of this refreshing procedure, and for more solidly built constitution about 15 seconds. Long lasting bathing may result with cold next day. 

From cold pool, having taken a switch of green birch twigs, we go straight to the hot sweating room. Pores will be opened again, the skin continues exercise in elasticity and stars to use the bunch of green birch twigs…

Oak or birch?

As with steam room, so with the bunch of green birch twigs you should be very wisely.

Before going to the steam room you should clarify what is more important for you: to get the amount of a good warm up or get the dose of nutrients. According to your aim you should choose a switch of green birch twigs.

Oak switch of green birch twigs is very food for qualitative warmth. It`s wide and dense leaves very good deliver the steam. the switch of green birch twigs contains essential oils, tannin elements, vitamin C and pro-vitamin A. thanks to it`s healing properties of switch of green birch twigs very often may be met at the Russian baths.

                If you had caught cold and have respiratory problems it`s better to use eucalyptus.  It`s thin branches can he used only for inhalations at the Russian baths. Coniferous besom has  unique fragrance and sedative effect. Of cause it`s not necessarily you should take one if the mentioned above besoms. You can use mixed  specimen using several types. For example with eucalyptus trees use acerose leafs. But you may get no effect from the green birch twigs as far as from Russian baths if you act in your own way or according to your intuition, not paying attention to the rubric. You should act wisely as with sweating room so with the green birch twigs. Cause your body loves to be massaged not to be beaten with some kind of twigs.

Along and crosswise

“using of bunch of green birch twigs” to the body you may use by your own or you can trust this responsible matter to other person.  Second version is more preferable: cause you get possibility to fully relax and the effect from the massage will be more powerful. From the other side, when you make it your own, you can control the temperature level and can stop doing it when you want.

Massage starts from the delicate touching by the tips of the green birch twigs, from the feet till groin, and then from the other side- from toes till buttocks. In the same way with the hands- from palms till shoulders, first from inner side, then outer face. Back and breast can be massaged as along so athwart.

After effleurage we go to the light manual percussion at the same directions: from toes till  groin and from palm till shoulder. And only afterwards we can pressurize the steam to defined place of the body  (two-free) waves and at the end apply  your palm. You`ll get effect of mustard plaster. Such kind of hot compress is particularly useful for injured areas.

But stretching you can`t do alone. Frankly talking it`s more useful for those persons who has problems with waist. Besides assistant for this procedure, you`ll need two switch of green birch twigs. They are placed to the steamed out to the area of low back and slowly, as if move apart heavy stones, put then to different sides: one to the toes, the other to the head. Stretching is done for several times and is ended by the soft circular stroking of the body.

For maximum effect you should take a vacuum flask with herb tincture and some aroma liquids for steaming room.

This, perhaps, is the minimum collection of requirements that are needed to feel  easiness in the body and clarity in your mind, but to give you some health  and to get younger. For greater effect to have to take with a vacuum bottle with hot tea made of grass tincture that are suits your body, a bottle of  extract “bread” or “forest” spirit, and the whole heaps of all your problems to leave them there.

By the constructions Russian baths can be divided to 3 main types, temperature and humidity of the air at the steaming room:

1)       Russian baths of dry air ( city public bath-   common wheatear, Russian baths, Finnish sauna) with air temperature from 60 till 120 degree, and humidity of the air from 5 till 25%.

2)       Wet Russian baths ( sweating room, Russian, Finnish, Eastern), where the  temperature vary from 50 till 70 degree, and humidity from 80 till 100 percent.

3)       Water Russian baths or Japan

Every of this Russian baths has it`s own advantages and limitation.

Ancient Russian baths – roman thermae. They were consisted of several departments: for undressing and rest afterwards Russian baths, pool department for 1^st wash, and then department for washing with hot and warm water. Afterwards for dry streaming room and for wet Russian baths.  Warming of steaming rooms is done by the stoves that were heated with mineral oil.

In Constantinople roman thermae were modified and were renamed to Turkish baths. The floor was reheated with the hot air, and then it was watered with hot water as a result of it the steam was formed. Due to hot climate of eastern countries, regular visiting of Turkish baths prevented people from different diseases.  

Roman –Irish baths were spread in different countries. They are only air with moderate temperature 50-60 degree. Hot air goes through under the floor and by the walls in special tubes. Visiting of this kind of baths is the following- preparation room, visiting of the room of the first reheating, steam room, to which through the holes in the floor hot air is coming.

Therefore changing of the rooms is accompanied with profuse sweating. From Roman baths it varies by presence of the special tube for used air, that makes atmosphere of the Russian baths healthy.

Russian baths. In Russian land was known from the ancient times. For example, at the statute of the great prince Vladimir (966) the Russian baths were named as “establishments for morbid persons”. Through the whole Russia in the villages and towns it the riversides lakes and brooks Russian baths were built up. Russian baths were wooden peasant's log hut, containing two rooms: locker room and Russian baths steam room. At the  Russian baths steam room wheatear is present with stones.

There are two types of Russian baths:  hearth with smoke inside and outside. Firebox with smoke inside in the most ancient , but it preserved till our days in some regions, for example in Siberian region. Firebox is heated without chimney, smoke goes through the opened window of stewing room. When the common wheatear is warm enough firing is stop, the Russian baths  is ventilated, the walls are poured with water, then the widows and doors  are shut and gives water to the chimney for stem formation. Such kind of Russian baths has a special spirit thank to the smoke action on the blockhouse.

Russian baths with smoke outside is spread all over the territory of Russia country. It`s smoke from the chimney goes through the chimney and thanks to that fact atmosphere at the sweating room does not goes dirt, ventilation of the sweating room the washing of the walls are not required. This kind of Russian baths is more hygiene and modern.

Russian baths has one type that can be met in prairies and woodless where you can`t built a log-house. In Russian stove after baking of the bread the ashes is taken out, planking are put and goes inside, where beforehand you should put a basket with water and the  green birch twigs. When you start to moistening the walls of the stove with water, the steam appears.

Finnish sauna is more close to Russian baths, although opposing to Russian baths high humidity and to saunas dry air.

Last years it became prestigious to attend Finnish saunas not Russian baths. Frankly talking real Finnish sauna does not vary from Russian baths. As in Russian baths, so in sauna the steam was got, watering stones to red-hot extent. In both institutions switch of green birch twigs are used during the bathing process. As in Russian baths so in Finnish saunas you plunge into the water or into the snowdrift.

Sauna- is the sister of Russian baths ( by the way the translation from Finnish means “Russian baths”). Progenitress of the Russian baths as sauna is the wooden izba incalescent with the some inside.

At the prospects that were   advertising were  mentioned that a person must undergo to the air that was heated. Dry air has much more thermal conductivity and heat capacity allows to heat the room till 100-120 degree. It is predicated that coverage by the warmth and it is it`s advantage. In Russian baths as in the real wooden sauna, at the air much more content of the steam and so the temperature at the level of the head does not exceed 60-65 degree. Only doctors can judge what is more useful for human body who are investigate their influence. But nevertheless you should not contract Russian baths to Finnish sauna. Cause the modern as sauna as Russian baths can be easily tuned to the desired mode of humidity or temperature.

The population of Finnish saunas at the last period of time is connected with the fact that Fins made them more useful in use and gave good advertisement.

 The deficiency is the fact that it overdry upper air passages: tickling in the throat, dry mouth, dry of the skin and tunica mucosa of mouth.

As in Russian baths so in sauna the steam is got by the giving water to the furnace on the burning hot stones. Difference in the humidity varies from the structure of furnace and from the frequency of moistening of the stones by the water.

System of the Russian baths and sauna, structure of their separate elements has no sufficient differences, and because given recommendations are common.

 In Japan water baths are of great popularity. It`s bath in put in wooden barrel, that must be filled with hot water with temperature about 45 degree. To take such a bath you have to get into the barrel till your chest, you must put a moisten in a cold water hat on. Japanese attend such a bath three times a week.

Another Japanese bath is sawdust bath. To cedar scobs you should add healing herbs and then it should be warmed till 60 degree. Sawdust absorb wet, and at the same time they excrete aroma and healing substances.

There are also unusual and also very useful bathhouses.

For example there is a good way to have a good bathhouse with a birch leaves or flower hay.

There is also a so called sand bathhouse. Sun warmed sand a very good absorbs sweat of the man that is dig in to the ground mass. Those bathhouses heal arthritis, rheumatism, nephritis and some gynecology problems. Afterwards it`s very useful to take a sea bath.

Avicena had recommended ta take sand baths with watermelon. Watermelon is the urinative fruit, it absorbs the sweat of the patient. Thereby the kidney problems was treated.

Historical origins of the Russian baths.

Russian baths history goes by it`s origins to the ancient times. So, the Egypt priests for about 6 thousands years pay a lot of attention to the body purity and have used bath houses very often. Egypt priests took bath four times a day: two times a day and two times at night.  As far as there were a lot of beautiful available for everyone bathhouses. Adherence to bathhouses and massage, adherence at eating allowed to Egypt people to keep lean body and helped success fully to fight premature senility. Egypt doctors of that time used to be the best in the world, and their healing power was obligatory followed by water procedures, in other words bathhouse.

1,5 thousands years ago bathhouses were used in India for hygiene and healing power.

At the ancient Greece bathhouses firstly appeared at  Spartan camps. They were round rooms with the open fire place In the center.

 They were  very popular at ancient Romans. There was a cult of bathhouse. Even when saying hello by the meting each other, instead of greetings they ask “who is your sweating”? they could not imagine a life without bathhouse. “bathhouse, love and joy- till the old age we are together” such an inscription till the our days at the wall of one ancient building.

At the bathhouse Romans not only washed their selves, but drew pictures, read poems, song songs, had  banquets. There were massage rooms there, sport yards, libraries.  Rich Roman persons attended bathhouse twice a day.

As common so as the private bathhouses characterized by the exceptional luxury- precious marble of the pools, silver and gold washstands. At the end I century before our age there were built about 150 public bathhouses.

It`s interesting to notice that bathhouse as Russian baths had the same way of heating up, in the corner there was a stove, at the bronze grid- red hot stones. There also was rooms with dry and wet vapor.

In ancient Rome bathhouses  were valued as the remedy from many diseases. Particularly outstanding roman doctors Asklepiada (128-56 years before our age) for its adherence for bathing process he was named “bather”. To his point of view that to be cured the body purity is needed, and also moderate gymnastics, sweating in the bathhouse, massage, diet and walking on the fresh air. The most important to his point of view is to catch the attention of the ill person, to destroy his   spleen, to recover health optimistic adherence to life. Exactly  bathing procedure  caused similar feelings.

Russian bath in Russian land ( soaper, movnya, vlaznya) was famous in Slavonic nation from V-VI centuries. Everybody used Russian baths: princes, famous people,  and ordinary people. Accept it`s functional  prescription Russian baths played a great role in different customs. For example, Russian baths was needed on the eve of the Holy Matrimony and the next day after wedding the attendance of Russian baths was followed by the special ceremonies.

A lot of different foreign visitors wrote About Russian baths.

Oleariy (German scientist 1603-1671) who made a trip to Moscow and Persia 1633-1639 wrote that Russian firmly followed the custom to wash in Russian baths, because at all cities and villages they had a lot of custom and private Russian baths. Oleariy mention, that Russian    summarized that Ljedmtriy was stranger, cause he didn`t like Russian baths. Russians as say Oleariy, can stand very high heat, tat made them all red and was exhausted to such extent that can`t stay any longer in Russian baths they go outside naked take cold water or in winter rub their body with snow and go back to the Russian baths.

It was allowed for everybody to built Russian baths who had  enough land. Statute if the year 1649 said that Russian baths must be built at the  market gardens and at the hollow places far away from  mansions. Home Russian baths were stroked with only once a day on Saturdays, that is why Saturdays used to be wash days and they were free from the work. As a rule the whole families washed men and women together, they took steam bath at Russian baths. However in public Russian baths people of all ages and took steam bath together but men at one side women at the other. And only in  1743 by the senatorial decree it was forbidden at the commercial baths to wash women and men older than 7 years together, and for men the same.

As written in one ancient treatise the washing gives 10 advantages: mind clearness, freshness, cheerfulness, health, strength, beauty, youth, purity, nice color of the skin and attracts attention of the beautiful women. We should note, that the one who understands the use of Russian baths goes to Russian baths not to wash himself but to warm up himself and to perspire freely.

Warming-up leads to beneficial change of functional state of inner organs and body systems, enhancement of metabolism, assists to expansion of protective and compensatory mechanisms. It can be explained by beneficial effect of warmth and sweating process to the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, thermal control and endocrine system of many people. Russian baths calms down nervous system, recovers cheerfulness, improves mental activity.

Have a look what have written about Russian baths in the year 1778 Portugal Sanches- the doctor of empress Elizabeth the Petr (you may find that document in Moscow at the library of Lenin “I set no hopes to find such a doctor who did not accept the use of Russian baths. Everybody can clearly see how happy would be the society if it had easy and effective way not only to keen you healthy but also to cure the diseases that are often happens. I can give only to Russian baths such an effect . when Saches left Russia he assisted to open Russian baths almost at every European state.

Antiseptic- contain in equal proportions following herbs- mint, thyme (thyme), leaf of eucalyptus. This decoction is necessary to be insisted before Russian baths procedure, it should be used first before other herbal essences. Why? The secret is that it`s vapor it perfectly well disinfect and clear sweating room and Russian bath man as well. Medicinal herbs  in combination with Russian baths heat destroys all the bacteria at the skin and upper air passages of the man. After the Russian baths procedure the bacterium can not enter your body till the next Russian baths day.

Sedative- contains in equal doses the following herbs: mint, origan, chamomile, thyme, birch leaf bud, needles of spruce. The use of such a decoction is very useful for smokers.  Experience smokers can feel  tachycardia, noise in the head due to the raising of arterial pressure: after the Russian bath procedure smoker usually suffers from insomnia. Sedative decoction perfectly all this negative consequences of smoking.

 Tonic effect- includes the following collection of herbals:  holy grass leafs, leaf buds, cottonwood, tansy lugs. This decoction should be used to those people for whom presence at the sweating room provokes weakness and throbbing pain. Those ailments are connected with reduction of arterial pressure and application of this decoction improves your general state reliefs offensive feelings.

Respiratory effect- contains on equal parts leafs of birch, lime tree, oak, thyme grass, origan. Healing fragrance perfectly well improves health of lungs after respiratory diseases.  Aromatic substances of those substances improves lung ventilation, stimulate dilatation of respiratory tracts, increase maximum volume of breath and it`s depth. Usage of respiratory decoction strengthens and hardens lungs, gives to the lungs a kind of gymnastics. Usage of the respiratory decoction strengthens and hardens your lungs, provides to the lungs a kind of respiratory gymnastics. The main advantage of Russian baths towards Finnish sauna is the usage of medicinal herbs and the tree leafs, that can be used in different decoctions and extract, and also as steamed out bunch of green birch twigs. Finnish sauna, with its high temperature (100-120) and low humidity about 5-15% does not allow to use healing therapeutic effect medical herbs. Only in the Russian baths, that has a wheatear, you can give to the hot stones decoctions, extracts and mixtures of medical herbs, enjoy the healing, health-improving steam. Healing effect is provided with the fast introduction to humans body of the healing substances (they get to the lugs, and out there straight to the blood). Inhalational effect of the steam, saturated with volatile substances herbs, provides relief and healing effect from many diseases. For aromatic and healing sweating room our forests and meadows has a lot of medical herbs. This is  mint, St. John's wort, foalfoot, sage, chamomile, linden flowers, leafs of birch and oak, wormwood, thyme, birch buds, pine buds, etc. it`s possible to combine content of the composition, conforming to your health. Composition of the herbal extracts can be as following- antiseptic, expectorated, sudorific, sedative, tonic, aromatic. Exact herbal extracts are given in the article “use of the herbal extracts”. By that you should be rational with not to be overdiligent with the amount of used extract, because it`s possible to have backward, undesirable effect of it`s use.

How much and how to use those extracts herbal extracts in sweating room? Russian baths experts of Romankiv estate will advise  you.

Rational amount of extract that is added to the hot water, everybody measures himself, but, as a rule, it`s important to add about 70-100 ml of extract (tincture) to the basin (3-4L). In no way do not  splash onto the incandescent stones of the wheatear highly condensed extract- long lasting and unpleasant smell is a guaranteed for a long time.

How to get at the sweating room of Russian bath of Romankiv Estate healing steam?

To get the healing steam without smell of the slash you can in the following way: to the  incandescent stones you should firstly splash some (100-150) ml of clear hot water, and then in about 3-5 sec. add 100-150 mg of hot water from the basin with the decoction. And then in 1-2 minutes repeat this procedure, that means add some hot clear water, but then water with  the decoction. A portion of the water is desirable to splash by the wide spout at the upper part of the stones, to accelerate vaporizing of healing substances.

How to made the sweating room of Romankiv Estate balmy?

At once with the use of healing decoction steaming room should be filled with pleasant useful aromas. It will be enough to put at the shelves of sweating room fir twigs. Very well gives aroma to the sweating room leaves and twigs of sage, mint and eucalyptus. Russian baths lovers aromatize sweating room of Russian bath with the glass of sour kvass, honey liquor (half of honey spoon to the glass of hot water). Ideal Russian baths- with two sweating rooms: first with dry heat (humidity 10-20%) this is the same Finnish sauna, second one-for the bunch of green birch twigs, with high humidity. At this time aromatic atmosphere also is done at the both sweating rooms: at 1^st concentrated decoction by the simple vaporizer, and at the second should be healing wet steam should be provisioned steam with aroma. At such ideal Russian baths at the 1^st sweating room are warming up, and at the second one you can wave as much as you want wave with the  bunch of green birch twigs. At the sweating room with the dry steam useful to breathe to ease your perspiration.

How to prepare a solution from medical herbs extracts for Romankiv estate?

 Plants and leafs before use must be minced. Separately from each other till the parts of the size of 5-10 mm and then to make a necessary solution of needed proportions. Obtained solution of medical herbs, should be placed in to the enameled pan or to the capacity from stainless steel, poured with 1,5-2 l boiled water, put on fire. When the solution boils, the fire should be minimized to the lowest level, the capacity shuts, put a dense material at the top for 1 hour leaves light fire. Then the decoction should be cold till the room temperature not taking off the cover. After the cooling it should be strain through the sieve, the plants should be wringed, and the decoction should be strained again but through the cheesecloth. When it is ready it should be bottled, tightly closed and keep at the basement or refrigerator not longer then 1-1,5 month. Common quantity of those extracts to prepare such a decoction must be the following: while using  those dry grasses and leafs 200-250g, if are using  raw grasses, then 1-1,5 kilos. For this decoction you should use only  qualitative, not corrupted by the decay grasses.

 Bracing Russian baths of Romankiv Estate is the great way of prevention of various diseases, it`s very good to help sick persons, it`s called national wide a healer. Russian baths is a great  preventive way against catarrhal diseases and influenza. A man that regularly visits Russian baths, trains his thermal reflexes, he is very trained to sharp change of climate conditions and much more rarely   exposed to chill and cold diseases.

But Russian baths perfectly takes off colds in initial stage. For this you should to have a very good Russian baths at the steaming room, to make inhalation with the herbal grasses, drink some hot tea with (honey and raspberry), and the 1^st attack of cold will be defeated.

Russian baths without the twig of green birch twigs is like a flowerbed without flowers.

 The help of nature in Russian baths.

The main advantage of the Russian baths against Finnish sauna is the use of medical herbs and tree foliages, that are used in different decoction and tinctures and as a steamed out bunch of green birch twigs. Finnish sauna, with its high temperature (100-120) and low humidity about 10-15 percents does not allow to use healing therapeutic of the medicinal herbs. Only at Russian baths, that has common wheatear, you can by giving to hot stones decoctions, tinctures and mixtures of healing herbs you can enjoy healing, health-improving steam. heath improving effect is ensured by fast injection of healing substances( they get into the lungs, and then straight to the blood). Inhalational effect of the steam saturated with volatile matters of medical herbs, secures effect of miraculous escape from various diseases.  For lovers of aromatic, healing sweating room our meadows and fields has a lot of healing herbs. These are mint, oregano, St. John's wort, foalfoot, sage, chamomile, lime tree flowers, oak and birch leafs, wormwood, thyme, leaf bud and others.

You may combine the composition of the healing grasses as you like according to the state of your health. Composition of healing grasses may be as following: antiseptic, expectorant, sudorific, sedative, tonic and aroma. You should not to overdiligent at the amount of extract, otherwise you can get the regressive effect from it`s use.

Properties of the Russian baths.

There was a reason why Russian people gave to the Russian baths miraculous properties and consider it the remedy to cure any disease. It`s confirmed  scientifically that if to use Russian baths correctly it can help to fight many ailments. the matter of fact is it`s healing properties.

Hot Russian baths- is a perfect training equipment for cardiovascular system. Thanks to effect of the steam, the blood circulation is enhanced and the eruption of the cardiovascular blood happens. Moreover, Russian baths in the best way effects on skin condition. Russian baths heat clears skin pores, stimulate activity of the  sebiferous gland and takes out recrements. While regularly and correct attendance  of the Russian baths you can note that you skin condition is gets better. Visiting Russian baths is the best way to take off overweight. You should consult a doctor before using such a method to lose weight. You should lose weight at the Russian baths gradually not more than two kilos at once. This is due to fact that you lose your weight because of dehydration, dehydration is very dangerous. While breaks you should avoid eating and you can drink only third part of the glass of kvass. Attendance of the Russian baths stimulate the work of the whole body, tope it up, enforces the metabolism process,  enhances the work of the endocrine glands, makes your muscles and ligaments more flexible, enforce the oxidation processes and much more else. Russian  baths is very useful for your body. But there is several recommendation that you should follow while attending Russian baths. Braking those rules can effect your general state.

Here are some of them:

-you should gradually train yourself. Maximize the temperature of the sweating room step by step several degree while every attendance of the sweating room;

- you should avoid attendance of the Russian baths after meal;

- it`s  prohibited to attend Russian baths after being outside when it`s cold. You should stay for a while in a warm room, steam your legs. And only after this you should go to the sweating room;

- train yourself to relax your muscles;

- its desirable to put a hat on;

- to a contrast shower afterwards;

- drink as much useful liquid as you can;

If you follow those simple rules, you can get a lot of pleasant emotions. You will like to repeat this pleasant procedure for sure.

 Hope you enjoyed your bath!

Treatment at the Russian baths.

From time immemorial Russian baths (sauna) helps to fight any ailments. When you get chill, rhinitis Russian baths was the irreplaceable method: eat onion, rub yourself with horseradish, go to Russian baths; said our ancestors.

It`s impossible to substitute Russian baths if you got chronic bronchitis, stuffiness in nose and throat. It`s not accidental that all the manuals of thermotherapy Russian baths is the classic method thermal treatment.

Russian baths can be prescribed when you got such a serious diseases: high blood pressure, low blood pressure, cardiovascular system disorders ,various blood circulation disfunctions- from low vessel spasms of till  various anomalies in peripheral blood circulation. Chronic and rheumatic pains ailments, radiculitis, skin disorders,  protein and fat metabolism, polyarthritis, diabetes mellitus at the light form- at all those cases Russian baths plays its positive role.

There is an interesting observation: if a person with high blood pressure afterwards Russian baths the pressure does not stabilize, than at the blood vessels suffered irreversible changes ( blood vessels become rigid). Then you need a serious long lasting.

When a person with high blood pressure goes to Russian baths at the initial stage it is healthy to use sudorific teas or sudorific kvass.

It`s possible to rub yourself with sudorific marsh tea: sudorific grubs- ine tea spoon, water 250 g.

Sudorific grubs are  infused with hot water 10-15 minutes. Then you should rub your body. Marsh tea stir up high perspiration and the pressure goes down. It`s possible to help the perspiration process by drinking some millet tea. But it`s worth to know, why you pressure gets up; kidney problems, colon, vessels itself… it`s needed to remove reasons, and then to normalize your body state.

It`s very often in the begging stages of the diseases the dry air baths are prescribed.  Water procedures are used very widespread, massage. It`s better that Russian baths is sewed with pine boards. It`s very good when with hot dry air the oxygen is given to the Russian baths steaming room. Thank`s to the dilation of the vessels skin and muscles, mucous membrane of the breathing system most hypertensive patients arterial pressure gets low. Usually they can stand this procedure normally. Except those, who has a sharp heart inflammation, and desolate condition of cardiac failure.

The best way here- is the way you feels afterwards Russian baths. If it`s good, the procedure can be continued. If the sick person feels bad, he must be habituated gradually to the procedure. For the beginning you can thermal procedures to different parts of the body: hands, legs, body. Then can try to enter the sweating room for a minute long. You should not be in a hurry to take a cold shower- better to take a moderate warm.

Russian baths is very good for obesity. A famous Greek doctor Galen got excellent results by prescribing Russian baths and rural work.

Usually it`s recommended for such persons to get into the sweating room not longer than 10 minutes. In no way you should in a hurry in those cases. It`s desirable that the weight loose did not exceed  0,05 kilos. Cause usually persons sick for obesity burden with heart problems. That is why Russian baths is prescribed only to persons with 1-2 degree of obesity, without expressed signs of cardiac failure.

The same Galen successfully treated at the thermaes rheumatism. This is very insidious and hard-to-cure disease. But it abates before regular and contrast procedures. From time immemorial rheumatism was cured in Russian baths in Russian land. To boost the Russian baths healing effect, the against rheumatic teas were used and different remedies of the folk medicine. The tincture of the wolfs bane with the bark in alcohol, vodka tinctures, liquid ammonia, capsicum tincture; mustard-salt powder, with compound with ginger base, rubbing-in of camphor ointment. The kerosene was widespread ( the famous ointment with olive oil as the base, hot red pepper, and  kerosene).

Russian baths can be prescribed for podagra. From Greek it means “leg in the steel trap”. Because of the deposition of salts, sick person suffers sharp pains. The salt deposition process at cartilages, bones and tendons happens because of insufficient removal of the clear the body of chemical waste. Russian baths heat is not only prevent disease but also helps to stand its clinical course, if it already happened. The warm treatment is very good for podagra and eases its course if it happens. It works very good with  coltsfoot tincture.

We have already mentioned about Russian bath heat treatment helps for swelling treatment. If you got temperature 39 degree the slowing-down of malignant cells happens. If your body temperature is more than 40 degree those cells die off. Very often Russian bath procedures are used for kidney disorders treatment. Russian bath helps to recover water balance. As far as liquid takes out intensively through the pores of the skin, this process ease the work of kidneys. Even sick persons with removed kidneys feels awake afterwards the Russian baths. It`s very useful to combine thermal procedure with using of special kidney teas. When you treat your overchilled kidneys, that have lost a part of their cellular tissues, the following procedure is recommended: before entering  Russian baths sweating room in 10-20 minutes you should drink not more than one glass of sudorific kvass. If the skin is badly perspires, it should be bathe with the sudorific kvass. To prepare tea and kvass make the following:

Sudorific (kidney kvass) tea.

Raspberry (1-2 glasses) preserve jam. Sugar 1 glasses, sour-cream (one spoon) water (3 litters)

Raspberry, sugar, sour cream, are out into the 2 litter bottle, fermented at the warmth, with oxygen access during 10-15 days. Sudorific tea from ledum and birch.

Sudorific  grubs are- 1 table spoon, birch leafs (lime tree or elder), water 250 gr.

Mixture of elder and birch leafs, should be boiled for about 1-8 minutes and then infuse for about 10 minutes.

You must remember, that if you perspire well of the skin your kidneys are having a respite and quickly gets their cell volume, because the blood has a lot of useful nutrients.

During the Russian baths treatment of kidneys, it`s very useful to apply a bunch of green birch twigs, but cold shower and the pool it is inadmissible to use cold shower and the pool.

1^st you have a risk to  overchill your weakened kidneys,

2^nd the cold water, as we already know, stops the perspire process.

More over, it`s possible to get an absorption of the mud.

                It`s estimated that Russian baths procedure effects beneficially pancreatic patients. Diabetes it`s firstly a disease of metabolism. It has been estimated that more often it is spread over fat persons. when you perspire at the sweating room, sick person not only loose it`s weight, but also normalize his metabolism, the skin condition is enhanced- it`s not a secret that diabetic persons has a pale color, dry, scales off, such a kind of skin has a very poor healing effect. Russian baths not only enhance healing process of the wounds, but also protects from such a accompanying diseases as furunculosis and eczema.

                You must remember, that “sweet” disease diabetes can be vanquished with bitter taste. That is why bitter taste is added to diabetic teas.  Exactly such a tea pickings should be used at the Russian baths by diabetic persons.

                when you use Russian bath sweating room  for liver disease  you also must perspire abundantly.

                Afterwards you skin absorbs everything, that can be found on it`s surface. To reach the healing effect the skin should be dubbed with whey, mixed with honey and piscine ( clear that this procedure must done lonely- piscine has a firm unpleasant smell).

                Heart stabilization procedures should be performed if you have heart diseases.:

15 minutes before entering sweating room you should drink heart kvass. Afterwards sweating room procedure body massage performed aiming to enhance body blood circulation. During the massage heart has a rest.

                Heart kvass

Erysimum or Adonis, or foxglove or lily of the valley- one glass, sugar, sour-cream one glass, water 3 litter.

Kvass should brew not less than 2 weeks, one portion of kvass is0,5 glass. 10-12 Russian baths procedures simplifies the heart. Similar to heart diseases you can threat lung problems. But it`s better in this case to substitute with oxygen bath. Indication of underwater massage is prescribed.

                “lung kvass” 

Elecampane (flower or violet of free color)- one glass, sugar one glass, one spoon of sour cream, water (three litters. It should be brewed not less than for 2 weeks in oxygen medium.

                Bronchitis is treated well with Russian baths heat. Nevertheless  it`s not so easy to get rid of it. Very often it  takes chronic form. Asthma yields to the effect of sauna. Frankly talking such patients trains to heat procedures gradually, indicating baths for forearm and legs, and then starts Russian baths treatment. This procedures are combined with medical massage.

                Eventually Russian baths is very good for restoration of organism afterwards surgical operations and traumas. Metabolic processes are improved, and because of it the strengths are restored more quickly.

                There is a proverb- Russian baths with it`s healing steam fights more than 40 diseases.

1^st aid for thermal shock

                The purpose of this book is to show to us the importance of Russian baths as a very complex concept.   Combining physical, physiological, chemical, pharmacological, medical, cosmetological and other aspects, it, undoubtedly, demands a special training of all Russian baths participants.

                Though it`s availability and strength of pleasure is of such a high effect that push aside necessity of knowledge and experience. That is why it`s very often you may see at the Russian baths such persons who to devil-may-care extent risk their own health not even suspect about this.

                Due to that fact we can`t totally except such problems as faint, skin burn or thermal  shock. That is why experienced bathhouse attendant has to be able to assist in such a cases.

                Thermal shock.

It often happens due to the violation of the thermoregulation.

                Symptoms:

general weakness, head gravity, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, sharp change of the temperature, faint.

1^st aid:

injured person must be placed to the cold, of good ventilation place, give him abundant amount of drink, to wrap him into a wet bed sheets and put him a cold towel onto the head.

                Faint.

Symptoms

Paleness,  malfunction of coordination, sense of hearing, sickness, suffocation.

Lasting from 1 to 10 minutes.

                1^st aid: the sick person must be promptly brought to the fresh air the head must be uplifted. To the back of the head put a mustard plaster, hands and legs must be massaged with alcohol.

Burn

A burn at the Russian baths may be a result of wrong giving of the water, when a sharp stream of the steam gets to the body. Usually such burns are of the 1^st or 2^nd degree.

Symptoms: red color of the  skin, swollen skin, blisters.

1^st aid: to put a  bandage, saturated with liquid ammonia or manganese crystals.

Rarely more serious problems occur. If there is need of reanimation, you must immediately call the doctor, and until he comes you try to lighten the situation with the help of nerve-point massage. If to perform pressing to special points while breathing, this may be very effective. .

What kind of the bunch of green birch twigs to choose.

As with sweating room so with the bunch of green birch twigs you should be very careful.

Before to go to the Russian baths you must determine beforehand, what is more important for you today:

To get a good warmth or to get the amount of nutrients. Hence to that fact you choose the bunch of green birch twigs. Oak bunch of green birch twigs is very good to reach a good warming-up. It`s wide and tight enough leafs is very good to force the heat. The birch bunch of green birch twigs has a great amount of essences, tannins, vitamin C and pro-vitamin A. you can meet it very frequently thanks very  to  it`s healing properties at the sweating room. If you suffer a rhinitis or if you have respiratory tract problems, it`s better to use eucalyptus bunch of green birch twigs. It`s thin branches may be used only for inhalations at the sweating room. Coniferous bunch of green birch twigs has a unique fragrance and sedative properties. But it`s not so important to take one of mentioned bunch of green birch twigs. You may make a mixed specimen, having used several numbers. For example to eucalyptus branches you may add  a coniferous bunch of green birch twigs.

                But you may get no effect from the use of bunch of green birch twigs, as from the Russian baths itself, if you make everything to your own opinion or to your intuition, ignoring the rules. As with sweating room, with the bunch of  green birch twigs you must act wisely. Cause your body likes to massaged with correctly chosen  bunch of  green birch twigs, not to be switched with some kind of sticks.

                Bunch of  green birch twigs helps very good when you have muscles and joint pain afterwards physical exercises. It cleans your skin very good when you got tendency for rash and abscesses, accelerates healing of the wounds and abrasions, shows sedative action, improves your mood. It`s special quality is that it assists expansion of the small bronchial tubes. This stimulate discharge of sputum and enhance lung ventilation. That is why your breath is very clear afterwards! For bronchial asthma sufferers and smokers the use of the bunch of green birch twigs is very essential. Birch leafs contains essential oils, tannins, vitamin C, pro-vitamin A. You may use the tincture of bunch green birch twigs to wash your head, this strengthens your hair, removes dandruff.

                Oak bunch of  green birch twigs is more useful for people with fatty skin. It makes it glareless and resilient. Has strong anti-inflammatory action. Oak aroma prevents high blood pressure in the sweating room that is why for physicians and hypertension persons this bunch of green birch twigs is recommended. And by the way it calms your nervous system and reliefs stress. Oak leafs contains a great amount of tannins. Oak decoction can be used as a remedy for some skin disorders, perspiring of feet.

                Linden bunch of green birch twigs.

Linden bunch of green birch twigs perfectly removes head pain, performs a slight “gymnastics” for kidneys (diuretic effect), removes perspiration. Has a sedative, wound healing activity, bronchodilatory, antipyretic action.

When you suffers a cold there is no other of equal action.

Coniferous bunch of green birch twigs (abies, juniper).

Stimulate perspiration, increase blood circulation of the muscles deep inside, and also at the inner organs. This bunch of green birch twigs is very good for a kind of massage. For instance, vertebra pain, neuralgia, radiculitis. It perfectly disinfect air and prevents respiratory diseases. Linden bunch of green birch twigs needs to be steamed for 10 minutes in boiled water. When it becomes soft, you can start to take a steam bath. 1-2 branches is useful to put into the birch  or oak bunch of green birch twigs. Such a tincture you may use for watering the stones, and for washing.

                Eucalyptus bunch of green birch twigs.

It contains 1-3% of essential oil, this fact connects with it`s healing properties. It`s very good for rhinitis, throat pains. At the sweating room it should be pressed to the face and breath in 4-5 minutes through the nose. But there are several imperfection: eucalyptus bunch of green birch twigs has a thin branches, elastic, and the leafs are long. It`s not comfortable to operate with it while sweating procedure.

                Mountain ash bunch of green birch twigs.

It strengthens nerve stimulation process at the nervous system- remove relaxing processes of the Russian baths procedure at the nervous system, very well prepares  your organism for the work and that is why it is widely spread at the 1^st day part.

                Nettle bunch of green birch twigs

Should be used afterwards physical exercises, if you feel muscle and joint pain. Its worth to  switch them with the nettle bunch of green birch twigs, and the bad feelings are gone. it is connected with power, local stimulating, distracting, anti-inflammatory effect. Nettle bunch of green birch twigs is very good remedy to treat radiculitis,  rheumatism pain. With it`s regular use you stabilize your arterial pressure, nervous tension gets away. But if you apply strong whips it becomes damaged and useless for use. It should be put into hot water only for some seconds. You should start to to have Russian baths procedure afterwards warming up of the body with slight swing.

How to use bunch of green birch twigs

“to walk” with the bunch of green birch twigs you can by yourself and also it`s possible this responsible case to someone other. Second version is more preferable- there is a possibility to relax to the full extent, and the effect from the massage will be more effective. From the other side when you make the massage yourself, you can figure out the level of the temperature, and to stop where ever you want.

                The massage you start with the tender touching of the ends of the bunch of green birch twigs to the finger toes to the groin, and then from the other side- from the heels to the buttocks. The same with the hands- from palm to the shoulder, firstly outer side, and the inner side. Back and chest you can massage along and crosswise. Afterwards circular stroking comes manual percussion at the same directions: from toes to the groin, from palm to the shoulder. And only then you can pressurize the vapor to the needed point (3-5 waves), and at the end you should apply your palm to it. in this way you can reach the effect of mustard plaster. This compress is very good for injured areas.

                And the extension process you can`t make alone. Frankly talking it is necessary  for persons who suffers a back problems. Except the partner, you`ll need two bunch of green birch twigs. At the end of massage procedure they should be put at the area of the waist, and slowly, as if you were moving apart heavy stones, you put at the different sides bunches of green birch twigs: one to the heels, and the other to the head. “Stretching” should be done for several times. And ends with common effleurage of the body.

                This is a minimum set of requirements  to get afterwards Russian baths procedure not only to feel body lightness in the body and clarity in the head, but also to get some health and to throw down a couple of years. You should take a vacuum bottle with hot tea with tincture of herbal essences under your body, a bottle of extract of “bread” or “forest” spirit and the pack of all your problems to through them away with the vapor.

Treatment of the bones and nerves.

Joint pain. At the Russian baths from time immemorial old traumas were cured,  that even years ago from time to time let us know about their existence by unpleasant feelings. Russian bath procedures enhance blood circulation and the supply of joint tissue, as the result of its presence you gets arthrosis. To those people who has  joint problems needs to lie at the Russian baths. To get stronger effect for joint  heating, you can press to it the hottest bunch of green birch twigs, and then watered with the cold water.

                But remember: before go to the Russian baths with joint problems, you need to determine the reason of the pain. If it`s joint inflammatory problems, heating procedures may have a harmful effect.

                 Radiculitis. As in all other cases, suffering radiculitis you may use the Russian bath procedures only between aggravation periods. And only with special bunch of green birch twigs. Eucalyptus or coniferous, from fir or juniper.

                There is a special recommendation for those who suffers pain in the small of one's back:

Hot bunch of green birch twigs are pressed to the low back, afterwards they are moved apart, one the neck and the other to the feet. While you are having rest it`s possible to make a massage.

                Muscle pains. Those who do sports seriously, goes to the Russian baths regularly- it recovers power to the tired muscles, improves the elasticity of ligaments. Not without reason is it said that sauna or sweating room present at the each fitness club. For muscles it`s more useful to use sauna- hot(90-100) degree, but dry. To have a maximum effect, you must be there immediately afterwards the physical load.

                Nettle and birch bunch of green birch twigs are very good to relief muscle pain.

                Insomnia.

Bunch of green birch twigs rules not only bones but also the head: Russian baths massage can to relief not only muscle but also emotional tention, calms nervous system. By the way it`s possible to get an aromatherapy procedure at the Russian baths, giving to the stones tinctures of fragrant grasses (they should be mixed with water) or by adding tinctures to the besoms. It`s possible to combine different grasses, making cocktails: for sleep mode for example, from the mint, garden heliotrope, chamomile, fennel, valerian or mint. Fir oil or mentol may have excitant action.

                Skin problems.

Under the steam effect the pores are cleansed and sebiferous gland work is stabilized, and the bunch of green birch twigs is very good help here- cleans mechanically, massage, improves blood circulation. With the purpose to normalize your oily skin you should use oak bunch of green birch twigs, linden bunch of green birch twigs, has a sedative effect, and the birch one is very famous for it`s bactericidal properties, and is very good for healing wounds. But its prohibited to have the Russian bath procedure while aggravation (including acne) and dermatomycoses.

                Respiratory  problems.

Usually three bunch of green birch twigs works at the sweating room: two in the hands of bathhouse attendant, and the one should be put in front of nose to person who has Russian bath procedure- that is the inhalation procedure combined with the common warming up. The air is hot and saturated with fragrant aroma of the grasses, softens and cleans respiratory tracts. It`s good to give some

It`s good to give some coniferous extract to the walls of the Russian baths stove, it`s possible to do Russian baths procedure with the absinth bunch of green birch twigs or to add some medical herbs to it.

Eucalyptus bunch of green birch twigs is very good too, but may cause allergic. It`s possible even for persons with low asthma to use Russian bath. But allergic persons should consult a doctor.

Caution

The common time of being at the Russian bath sweating room must not exceed 30 minutes, and the time of contact with the bunch of green birch twigs (it start to act only during the second come to the sweating room)  must not exceed 5-7 minutes for one session.

Afterwards the session Russian baths massage it`s prohibited to stand up and run out from sweating room. You should come up slowly, you should stay down stairs for several minutes.

If you fell dizziness, appears weakness, dyspnea (breathlessness), strong tachycardia you must leave sweating room immediately.

Every bunch of green birch twigs, including oak, should be not older than one year.

It`s better not to abuse with tinctures, not to get backwards effect and not to get a headache.

If you got cold, you should avoid sweating room, contrary to the tradition- only if you got cold.

According to article of magazine “interlocutor” the optimal entrances to the Russian bath sweating room is 3 for Russian bath day.

Rash and how to struggle it

Acne is the scourge of the youth. Intermediate period so to say. But unfortunately persons of  mature  age suffers them also. It happens because of high unctuosity of the skin. Each fat is necessary healthy and beauty skin. Fatty skin is more resistible to traumas, because the fat gives to it elasticity and softness. Nevertheless each fat has antiseptic action to the skin surface, preventing formation of pathogenic bacteria’s. But each action needs to have its rate. Abundance of fat spoils the look of hair and skin, and it`s antiseptic action goes down, promoting the bacteria formation. It`s waste products  irritates the skin provokes appearing of acne rosacea.

Conceptual stage is expressed itself by appearing at the skin black comedones. This not inflammatory itself, but  choked by the fat holes. If not to ablate them, they transforms into red  apostasies- acne rosacea.

Its possible to fight red  apostasies, even you have to. And you can find help with…,…, and Russian baths too!

Attending Russian baths sweating room regularly, heat to the skin, heightened perspiration effects your skin have a wholesome effect  on it, providing withdrawal of the fat from the pores, that are connected with the sebiferous gland.

But the role of Russian baths does not stop at this point!         

Doctors and cosmetologists has a common ground, mentioning stress, as about one of the main reasons of infringement of the fat balance of the skin. Rest of the full value and psychological  comfort normalize balance of the sebiferous glands.

The mode and the character of nutrition are also plays the great role. Proteins of vegetable world, vitamins A, PP, C, E, B, F, of B group, trace elements, iron and calcium, zinc, that is the base of eutrophy for persons with heighten fat content.

Ethnoscience has a great experience of correction of skin fat content with the help of herbal medicine. These are fomentations of aloe sap, candock decoction, raspberries tincture.

Caution: it`s harmful to your skin to use peroxide and alcohol because they sharply roughly destroy skin fat, and very often it has oppositely effect to those you want  to achieve. To use the soap is also is not willing.

The ideal way is to use of special skin lotions. By the way, you should control to keep the tampons in the clear and dry capacity. In no way use your fingers to process leather, in no way try not to touch your skin with the fingers.  Finger-pads has much more bacteria’s comparing to other skin areas.

It`s prohibited to:

-To take alcohol while Russian baths, considering it to be the best way to smooth over leisure-time of men company. Heart loading rises up in several times. The pleasure becomes extremely dangerous, that very often ends a heart attack.

-To drink cold beverages, because they  decelerate perspiration

-The best way is to prefer a warm tea.

-To eat abundantly, because the blood goes away from inner organs to cutaneous covering, and for digestion process needs inverse process. Russian baths holds no joy then, the stomach gravity would not leave you

-To go to the Russian baths when your   general state leaves much than desired

Especially if you general state is followed with high temperature.  Neglecting of this fact may result as a complication if disease.

                To overload yourself physically, this refers especially to sex. Load to your heart is very high. Then sumply relax and enjoy.

-          To load your body sharply is prohibited, especially if you are a newbie or after a long break. Do not pay attention to frequent customers, have a long break.

-          To compete with your friends on time of being in sweating room is foolishly. Pay attention just to your body. The same is with swimming in cold water.

-          To sit at the lowest stage of Russian bath to say longer in Russian bath. You should not perform exhibition action at the Russian baths.

-          To  be overdiligent with watering the stones at the Russian bath. The air becomes close and roasting. The optimal quantity of one portion is 100-200 ml. the water must not be of cold temperature.

-          To soak a bunch of green birch twigs in a hot water- the most leafs will be at the floor.

-          To sit upstairs, hang over your legs down, and keeping your head close to the ceiling. The difference of temperatures head legs can reach 30 degree, and much more hot is needed to your legs. Try to take horizontal position.

-          To wash with the soap before entering Russian bath sweating room.  Fatless skin can hardly stand temperature and susceptibility of influence to be burned.

-          To limit oneself only with contrasting procedure, trying to use more often sweating room. Duration of relaxation must exceed time of being at the sweating room  more than twice.

-          To have a shower bath at the Russian baths with warm water instead of cold ( not ice cold). Exactly combining Russian baths with contrasting procedures attending Russian baths becomes useful and pleasant.

This question bothers mom and daddies, you answer for sure: no, no harm!

Special investigations were done in Russia, Finland and Germany, showed that healing heat of Russian baths is useful for kids from 3 years.

But the routine of Russian baths for kids must be more partial load mode than for adults.

It is recommended to do not more than two enters to the sweating room with temperature 60-70 degree.

Try to preserve kids from  supercooling- the action of extra contrast procedures.  Afterwards the sweating room they are recommended to use warm not cold shower. Intensive cooling may damage

 Adaptive mechanisms of child body, and this may cause serious diseases. At the Russian baths, that from the times immemorial used to be of family use, kids were present there at once with old people. Generous healing steam is healthy for kids from 3-4 years. But parents must remember that kids can`t stay the same time at the heating room as the old persons. Time of use if Russian baths is much more smaller for them. And the temperature of procedures must be lower. The routine of being at the Russian baths depends on it`s age. The smaller is the age, the more careful you must be with the procedure. Here are the routine for 4 age child groups from 3-14 years:

-3-6 years must be at the sweating room not more than 4-5 minutes, with temperature 45-50 degree, the child must be only at the lowest stage with constant looking after by the parents. For the kids of that age only one entering to the sweating room is recommended. Afterwards of sweating room kids must avid cold shower, only warm shower is prescribed for them of temperature of 36-37 degree. This depends on the characteristic of the kids organism whose adaptation is very weak for sharp changes of the temperatures. A caution may prevent sharp changes at the kids body.

-6-10 years can make two sets of sweating room 3-4 minutes, each with the temperature of 55-60 degree. Kids of this age can stay at the middle shelf, with constant look of the parents. Each set of the sweating room can be followed with shower or dousing with water 32-34 degree.

- 10-12 years, who may take for intensive Russian bath procedures. Kids of that age are recommended two sets of Russian baths sweating room, each lasting 4-5 minutes, with temperature. Afterwards of Russian baths sweating room you can use a shower with more cold water  28-30 degree.

- 12-14 years for whom Russian baths procedure may last 10-12 minutes, that is two sets by 5-6 minutes. Teenagers can stay at the sweating room on the secondary shelf of 65-70 degree and even stay at the upper shelf not more than 1 minute, but also with undiverted attention of the parents.

Afterwards the seating room they are allowed to use a cold shower with the temperature of 25-28 degree.   

        Lets note once again that only adequate care of Russian baths use can properly assist strengthening the health of every member of the family, as kids so the adult persons.

 Recipes of the tea

-The  brew 2 gram per one cup plus with addition of herbage or 3-5 grams on the glass.

-Close the brew with towel and keep not more then 10 minutes (3-5 min invigorate, 5-10 min. sedative).

                 Recipes:

Fragrant tea.

To the  ½ l of boiled water 1-2 bud of carnation or a piece of  ginger root, ¼ of caraway, cinnamon, mint, two bay leafs. To this brew the honey suits very good. The mixture should be boiled 30 minutes, adding tea brewing, it should be infuse for 5 minutes. 

Cowberry tea

Has diuretic, stypsis and anticeptic activity. To one glass 1 teaspoon of dry cowberry leaf. Stew 15 minutes,  filter, drink warm, better with honey.

 Cranberry tea

Very well quench one's thirst, reliefs fiber, appetize well. 1 teaspoon of cranberry should be mashed with sugar. Pour hot water to the cup. Infuse for 10 minutes, then should be filtered then.

Mint tea

Has a sedative action, take off spasms of the colon, vessels, anaesthetize, appetize well. To the 1 teaspoon you should add minced mint leafs.  Infuse for 10 minutes.

St. John's wort tea

Stops inflammatory processes, regulate colon activity. 1-2 teaspoon to one litter of hot water. Infuse for 15-20 minutes.

Blackberry tea

Slake one's thirst and effects the whole body, effects alteratively.1 table spoon of minced leafs of sprouts to one liter of hot water. Infuse for 15-20 minutes.

Fruit-baccate tea

Rosehip fruits 1 part, blackberry fruits, mountain ash fruits 1 part. Two table spoons of minced fruits to the one teapot of hot water. Fill with boiled water, stew 30-40 minutes.

Herbal vitamin teas

Russian baths makes your body to perspire well. This is normal psychological processes of your body to high temperature. Cause evaporation plays a great role it protects your body from overheating. The sweat take out the body waste products, decay products, makes your body healthier.

Our body contains 70% from the water, and while being at the sweating room it makes your body to loose it, you starts to feel thirst, your body requires to recover it.

What is the right way to still thirst?

First of all, you should not drink at the sweating room cold water or other beverages because in a shot period of time you`ll feel the same.

The best drink at the Russian baths is good done fresh tea, preferably green, or herbal vitamin beverage. Tea or other beverages at the dressing-room of Russian baths you should drink during the rest from the thermos or vacuum bottle. At home after the Russian baths you should follow the rules of tea party.

At the Russian baths during all time of being there (1,5-2 hours) you may drink 2-3 glasses of tea or any other beverage. To the tea you may give some mint leafs, blackberry, raspberry, wild strawberry. If you got flue than it`s very useful to drink lime tree or with dry raspberry, it helps to make you perspire well.

Important to know, that it`s prohibited to drink a lot while being in Russian baths cause it provokes additional load to your kidneys and heart. About moderate quenching of thirst must remember aged people. For them using of strong tea is not desirable, coffee,  not mentioning such beverages as beer, or other alcohol drinks.

If the thirst did not leave you afterwards Russian baths, then in two hours you should drink a glass of tea with lemon.

It`s vey useful to still thirsty by the   tincture of brier, barberries, hawthorn, by vegetable or fruit juice. Grass teas- this is a real treasure of vitamins, microelements, of various bioactive substances, who positively effects and makes healthier your body.

Healing herbal properties were known for people long ago, perhaps, even cave livers had used herbal grasses for curing various ailments. Curing treatises that has come to us of ancient doctors give us a precise receipts of curing and applying healing grasses based on the experience of many centuries. Thus healers give from century to century    grains of healing properties of that or other grass,  creating the firm base of natures drug-store, that we use till our days.

                Healing substances, getting from healing herbs in its pure form, are used as powders, tinctures or decoctions. Many of the modern remedies, can`t be compared by it`s healing properties with those that was got from the herbs and grasses not mentioning side effects, that come from chemical drugs.

Vitamin teas.  

They are done from forest or field grasses and berries that differs by the color, aroma and taste. Herbal teas almost are the food stuff, they are contains a lot of biologically active components: vitamins, enzyme, microelements, organic acids etc. This bouquet of biologically active substances effect human body very effectively, prevents and heals a lot of remedies, thus grass teas are recommended for everyone regardless of age or state of your health. Value of herbal tea is that it does not contain caffeine and other energizing substances, that are not so harmless to human body. Especially for persons with nervous and heart-vessel system problems.  Vitamin, herbal tea is very useful for kids of every age, and the ordinary tea contains caffeine. It is prohibited to give it to the kids younger than 2 years.

                Nowadays many people starts to realize that it has health-improving properties to your body, and use it regularly. And the best vitamin tea is the tea that had been done from herbs that were gathered by your own. That is why everybody needs to know the rules of gathering, recycling and storage of them. Above all, you need to gather grasses not leaving empty space, cause nature is very  vulnerable, and you need always to leave some grass at the place of gathering for recovering. It’s forbidden  to gather all the grass with the roots- it`s vandal attitude to the nature, that is unfortunately is present at our time.

                While gathering leafs (strawberry, blackberry, stone bramble, etc.) only several leafs are cut from the twigs; if you gather flower part, then you should leave some plants with flowers to mature of the seeds (St. John's wort, marjoram, mint, Teocrium polium, etc.)

                Flowers of such plants as  dog rose, lime tree, Jessamine, etc., should be gathered opened.

 Blackberry, raspberry, cloudberry, stone bramble, willow-herb, willowweed, etc. should be gathered with fully unwraped leafs. Berries and leafs should be gathered only fully matured.

                To store up the grass you should in dry weather, as soon as the early dew descended. The best time is the period of flowering of the plant. The grass should be dried at the attic floor or in a good ventilated room, not letting it to become rot. You can`t use blacken grass.

                The grass that contains essential oil (thyme, marjoram, sweet flag, etc.) should dry slowly with temperature 30-35 degree. The grass, that contains glucosides (lychnis, tansy, mint, St. John's wort, foalfoot etc.) dry with temperature 50-60 degree (at the drying room).

                Brier,  barberry, mountain ash, blackberry, etc., that contain a lot of vitamin C, should be dry at the dryer with temperature 80-90 degree.

Dried berries and leafs should be stored at the paper or made of cloth bag, each type of plant separately (it`s possible to store in the glass or ceramic bottle tightly closed). At the bottle or bag must be a label with noted time and name of the grass.

                The time of storing flowers, leafs and berries must not exceed one-two year, to keep fruits and berry is 3-4 years, of the roots, bark and rhizome 2-3 years.

How make vitamin tea correctly

Flowers should be put into the big porcelain teapot. Berries before brewing must be- fresh should be squash, dry splintered). You should put leafs in to hot water and boil for 3-5 minutes or pour with boiling water.

                Roots, leafs and rough parts of the plant are cut to small pieces, then put into the cold water, bring to boil and with small fire boil for 10 minutes. afterwards flower tea, leafs and berries stew at the porcelain teapot for 10 minutes, and leaf and stalk tea must be stewed for 10-15 minutes.

                Correctly done tea has a unique taste and aroma and color, it has preserved all necessary components.

                How to make a composition for vitamin tea  

Picking (Compounds) of the grass tea may various. It depends on humans feeling. To the composition you must include one fragrant grass (oregano, mint, melissa, thyme, etc.). To take two-three aroma grasses is not recommended: the flavors may destroy each other or may form unpleasant aroma. As a rule the compound must contain one aromatic grass, and some grasses of neutral aromas). 

         When and which vitamin teas to drink

In the morning it`s recommended   to drink tonic tea (angelica, strawberry leafs, leafs and flowers of clover, magnolia vine, lavender, sulfurwort etc.).

At the evening you should drink a sedative herbal teas (St. John's wort, willowweed, raspberry (leafs), peppermint, chamomile, Melissa, primrose, cherry tree leaf, etc.)

                At the winter or early spring it is desirable to drink polyvitaminic grass teas (raspberries leafs, blackberry, blackcurrant, stinging nettle, carrots, brier, mountain ash, barberries, sea-buckthorn, blackcurrant etc.).

                At the summer you should make teas only from the fresh grasses, this period of the year you should use profitable to your body.

         Medical teas

 Those teas can be used only by the prescription of your attending medical doctor. The various doses proposed at the different herbal books are not obligatory, this dose depends from your state condition, they can be reduce, but should not be increased. In any case healing teas must be taken afterwards medical observation, and under control of your medical doctor. But you should control your health state and your body reaction.  Medicinal teas should be used 20-30 minutes before meal; the period of storage of this tea is 2-3 days.

                Tea at home usually is done from one-two or more grasses, strictly following the rules of preparation the mass quantity of them and the technology of preparation. If the recipe does not contain the technology  of preparation, then it should be done as following: the mentioned dosage of crushed mixture of plants should be poured to the hot enameled dishware, pour a  boiled water of room temperature and to put to the stew pan (slightly boiling water). Tinctures are made in hot water for 15 minutes, decoctions for 30 minutes. and then take away from the fire and makes it to infuse (decoctions for 10-15 minutes, infusions for 10-15 minutes). Afterwards the tea should be poured out, the rest of the plants wring out and all the liquid filtered through the gauze. Into the   ready medicinal tea you should add water till initial volume. Rational use of natural remedies reliefs your state, can help to get rid from long lasting disease.

                But we must notice about that wrong taking of different herbal grasses, make you harm; herbal remedy will transform into poison (as any other remedy). In no way you can use unknown grasses. That is why your way to your healthier your body by taking different grasses must be reasonable, careful and gradual.

Recipes of vitamin teas

Heather teas- two grams of dried leafs of  heather, two grams of dried leafs of the brier, 10 grams of strawberry.

Porcelain teapot rinsed with boiled water, give a herbal mixture and pour boiled water (200 mg.), stew for 5-10 minutes.

Cowberry tea- 12 gram of dry cowberry leafs, 200 mg of water, 10-15 gr. of sugar, 200 mg of water.

Porcelain teapot rinse with hot water,   pour with cowberries leafs, pour hot water, infuse for 10-15 minutes, give some sugar and pour to the cups.

Strawberry tea- 10 grams of  dried leafs of strawberry put in it, 2 grams of St. John's wort, 2 grams of mint, 200 grams of water.  Porcelain teapot rinse with hot water, pour with strawberry leafs, infuse for 7-10 minutes.

Ashberry tea- 30 grams of dried ashberries, 5 grams, of dried berries of raspberries, 2 grams of dried blackberries, the mixture infuse for 5-7 minutes. should be used as the brew.

Primrose tea- 5 gr. of primrose, 5 gr. of St. John's wort, 200 ml of water. The mixture of primrose leafs poured with boiled water in porcelain teapot and infuse for 5-7 minutes. use as a brew.

Thyme tea- 20gr. of dried leafs of thyme, 20 gr. of St. John's wort, 4gr. of cowberry leafs. Mixture of leafs pour and brew as at the previous recipe.

Rosehip-honey tea-20 gr. of rosehip berries, 15 gr. of honey, 5 gr. lemon juice, 15 gr. of honey, 200 mg of water. Mince dried berries of rosehip, pour with boiled water, boil for 10 minutes at the enameled dish, with the closed cover, stew for 10 minutes. Filter the decoction. Add honey, lemon juice.

Thyme and rosehip tea- 10 gr. of dried thyme berries, 5 gr. of dried  thyme leafs, 15 gr. of honey, 200 mg of water.

Mince rosehip berries, pour boiling water and boil for 5 minutes, then add rosehip berries. Stew for 10 minutes, drain, add honey.

Vitamin tea- 20 gr. of rosehip berries, 10 gr. of mountain ash berries, 5 gr. of dried marjoram, 200 mg. of water. Mince dried berries, pour boiled water and boil for 5 minutes, and add some wild marjoram leafs and stew for 10 minutes.

This is polyvitamin tea, it effects favourably metabolism processes, is antisclerotic remedy.

General health-improving tea:

-3 gr. of dried leafs of wild strawberries, 3 gr. of blackberry, 3 gr. of blackberry, 10 gr. St. John's wort, 10 gr. of thyme, 200 mg of water. Mixture of grasses is poured with hot water, stew for 7-10 minutes.

-6 gr. of dried brier berries, 6 gr. of dried berries of  sea-buckthorn, 2 gr. of centaury, 2 gr. of licorice,  3 gr. of dandelion, 20 gr. of honey, 200 mg of water. The fruits should be minced, roots to slice, the mixture poured with water, boil for 10 minutes, draw for one hour. Then filter and add honey.

-dried brier berries (3 parts of brier, 2 parts bilberries, 1 part of bird cherry tree, 3 parts of nettle leafs. Mince foetus, to make a decoction, then to take one spoon of decoction pour with two glasses of water, boil for 10 minutes, and infuse for two hours at the vacuum bottle. Take one glass a day when hot. This has counter indication for constipation.

-dried berries of brier (3 parts, 1 part of cowberry, 3 parts of dried leafs of nettle. The fruits should be minced, to make a mixture. One table spoon of berries pour with boiled water, boil, stew for 1 hour. Drink 1-2 glasses with honey.

Receipts of Medicinal teas.

Diabetic tea- 200mg of water, 2 gr. of green oats, 2gr of dried leafs of blackcurrant berries, 2gr of haricot, 2gr of flax seed. Minced mixture pour with boiled water in vacuum bottle, stay for knight long, and filter in the morning. This tea has sugar reducing action, is prescribed for diabetic persons.

Bilberry tea- to 200mg of water, 2gr of dried berries of bilberry, 2gr of dried flowers of chamomile, 2gr of peppermint, 2 gr of nettle leafs. Mixed mixture of should be brewed at the porcelain teapot, infuse for 15-20 min. is recommended for chronic colitis.

Diuretic tea- 200 mg of water dried grass leafs-5gr of esparcet, 5gr  of St. John's wort, 5gr of blackcurrant. This mixture backfill to the porcelain teapot, pour with boiling water, insist for 8-10 minutes.

Cholagogic  tea- strawflower glowers(4 parts), shamrock (3parts), peppermint (2 parts), coriander seeds (2 part).

Two tablespoons of minced mixture to infuse with two glasses of boiled water, infuse for 10 minutes, filtered. Drink three times a day half a glass, 20 minutes before meal. Tea is prescribed for urolithiasis, cholecystitis.

 Sudorific tea- dried leafs of raspberries (1 part), inflorescence of lime tree 91 part). Two table spoons of mixture  infuse with two glasses of boiled water,  infuse for 5 minutes, drink hot and go to bed. This tea is prescribed for gold and flue.

-dry flowers of chamomile (1 part), linden (1 part), Sambucus nigra (1 part), dry flowers of peppermint (1 part). One spoon of mixture brew with one glass of boiled water, infuse for 30-40 minutes, filter. Take 2-3 glasses of hot herbal potion for catarrhal diseases;

- dried flowers of linden (1 part), Sambucus nigra (1 part), dried leafs of peppermint (1part). One table spoon of mixture infuse for one glass of hot water, infuse, wrap up, filter. Take when hot in two sets for cold and flue.

Chest tea- dried leafs of coltsfoot (4 parts), plantain (3 parts), licorice (3 parts). One table spoon of mixture infuse with two glasses of hot water, stew for 10 minutes, drink tae every three hours, this assists for waste phlegm from lungs.

Sedative tea- dried Melissa leafs (1 part),  veronica (1 part), wild strawberries (3 parts), hawthorn leafs (4 parts). One minced tablespoon of mixture stew with 250 mg of hot water, insist for 5-7 minutes, drink with honey;

-          Dried leafs of wild strawberry ( 3 parts), peppermint (2 parts), haw berries (4parts). The mixture is stewed and should be taken as at the previous recipe;

-          Dried peppermint (1 part), Melissa (1 part), Valeriana officinalis (1part), leafs and flowers of thistle(1 part). One table spoon of minced mixture pour with one glass of boiling water, stew for 30 min, and  strain. Drink 3 times a day for insomnia and irritability;

-          Dried peppermint (1 part),  motherwort (1part), garden heliotrope (1 part), collective fruit of hop

(1 part). Mixture is stewed and take as at the previous recipe. Should be taken for nervous excitation, irritability.