– necessary attribute of the real Russian bath. Many give preference only birch, and in vain! Brooms can be prepared also from oak branches, currant, cherry, eucalyptus and even prickly juniper. The nettle, wormwood and other herbs are used too. Each of brooms is in own way good, but the main thing, it is necessary to be able to prepare them for bath correctly.
It is required to you
- - Tazy;
- - broom.
Instruction
- Dry birch or oak broom it is necessary to trouble. For this purpose there are several ways. It will be simplest to lower it in bucket with hot water for 15-20 minutes. During this time usually branches become flexible, and leaves find elasticity.
- It is possible to arrive in a different way. Prepare two basins, pour in one cold water, fill another hot. Take couple of minutes broom in cold water, then quickly lower it in hot for 5 minutes. Then add boiled water and still take broom of 10 minutes. After that it is possible to take a steam bath.
- If the broom is very overdried, wrap it in wet fabric one day before use. During this time it will absorb in itself(himself) moisture, and further steam it, as in the first step. And still it is possible just to scald it boiled water and to take several seconds over hot Kamenka.
- If you use lime, ashen, cherry, mountain ash, currant, alder brooms, then prepare them, as well as birch. And here coniferous put in basin with hot water, cover with the second basin and wait for 15-20 minutes. If the needles did not become softer, take still.
- Urticaceous broom very brittle therefore carefully lower it for 1-2 minutes in cold water, then - in hot. So alternate until the broom becomes elastic and will not "burn" when using. To facilitate symptoms of sciatica, rheumatism, arthritis, it is undesirable to deprive completely pungency nettle, in this case only lower broom in hot water for 1-2 minutes and begin to take a steam bath.
- Take eucalyptus broom a little in hot water better and put on shelves. The aroma proceeding from it is useful to airways. It is still good to add eucalyptus branches to birch or other brooms, then trouble them in the usual way.