Finnish sauna 

The sauna has special positive influence on a human body. Warm steam opens skin stomas, cleans a body. A thermoregulation of the body is more effective. It’s difficult to find such useful and pleasant pastime.

 

What’s the difference between Russian bathhouse and Finnish sauna?

 

Many think that Russian bathhouse and Finnish sauna differ in its wet and temperature. It is right, but it is not all we can say about those processes inside steam room. Actually it is important to get soft steam and dry air by circulation of air streams inside steam room. The difference in these steams is fundamental.

 

In Finnish sauna there is a fast air circulation through holes of the furnace and round it, that’s why air in Finnish sauna become dry and with minimum wet content. The result is the minimum difference of temperatures above and in the bottom of a steam room.

 

In Russian bathhouse all is made vice versa. Air circulation in stream room is absent. Air, heated to small temperatures (about 90°С), goes up from the bottom. That’s why the air can keep its wet. That is called soft steam as well. Many fans of Russian bathhouse notice that difference of temperatures between a ceiling and a floor that actually confirms slow air circulation which creates wet and keeps it for the long period of time.

The historical note: Historical facts tell that bathhouses appeared several centuries ago. Scientists suppose that sauna was known in the Stone Age, approximately 6-7 thousand years ago. There was a fireplace in the centre of their home. A fireplace looked like a digged hole into which small heated stones were put. After the fireplace was filled with the heated stones, some water was poured there and hot steam was formed to have a bath and to heat their home. Found rock paintings with people splashing water on stones prove that.

 

Ancient historians such as Herodotus, Hippocrates and the Scythian tribes wrote about bathhouses.

Useful advice:

Recommendations:

Bath and sauna is the fine way of improvement. It is especially useful to women. The steam room reduces quantity of wrinkles, keeps elasticity of skin and helps to lose weight. But there are also some contraindications.

 

Sauna helps at muscular pains after sport trainings.

 

Hot air clears respiratory ways. Mobility of costal-spinal abarthrosises increases, thorax moves become more free. Blood circulation in lungs improves, and blood is more sated with oxygen.

 

Hidropoiesis reduces loading on kidneys, and they are in «short holiday».

Is not recommended:

 

To people, with heart disease, with the expressed infringements of blood circulation, a hypertension with arterial pressure over 200 mm hg, heavy ischemic illness of heart and the expressed atherosclerosis of vessels;