There
are some hints referring to banya.
- You
must come into the steaming room several times and stay there
not so long in order not to overwarm. Otherwise you are becoming pale
and feel dizziness. Anyway if it happens, you can be placed in a cool room
to breathe fresh air. Your head must be up a little. You can be given a mustard
plaster on the back part of your head.
- Your kidneys are working more successfully if you are lying on the
wooden planks, while sweating, not sitting or standing. More water and
salt are
released at this position. It is banya that clean your kidneys and make
you younger.
- You always think of sweating in the banya. This process helps remove
excess lactic acid from muscles. Oxygen goes to muscles freely. It is noticed,
if you stop sweating, you should scrub your body with salt, honey, or beer.
The sweating increases and you lose weight. To increase the sweating you
can drink some warm water with a slice of lemon, cranberry juice, or raspberry
tea. Cold drinks are not allowed.
- If your problem is obesity, you should know that steam bathing stimulates
protein circulation, that is improve digestibility of proteins, fats, carbohydrates,
and mineral elements. You can improve this process by using the so-called “venic” (Russian
word). It is an important part of banya if you are loosing weight. It consists
of a leafy bundle of birch or oak twigs which help your body massage.
- From time to time you should go out into a washing room to have a rest,
and to pour yourself over with warm water. Then thoroughly scrub your body
with a wash-rag made of natural fibers.
During
your loosing weight you may massage your body in the warm room, far from
open doors, windows, or ventilation. Before entering the steaming room
each time you have to weigh, wrapping into the linen. To take a cold shower,
or jump into a cold pool are not recommended at all, because your blood
vessels decrease and the sweating stop.
Doctors recommend two more advice. First, when planning to lose weight,
don’t eat much salt; it will provide good release excess water from
your body. The second advice belongs to Avitsenna who appreciate banya benefits very much. He said, “Banya must be used before taking meals – it
will help rid of excess fat from muscles. If you have meal before banya,
it will help become obese.”
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