Excerpts from the movies come to mind, where people with fierceness stupidly beat themselves and their companions with brooms are at best, and at worst this is accompanied by plentiful libations in honor of Bacchus.
From a medical point of view, this is not Light Steam, but a mockery of a still healthy organism.
The concept of light steam came in the enlightening era of Emperor Peter Alekseevich, when, along with smoking baths, red bathhouses began to be erected. The first difference was that when the furnace was fired, the smoke did not exit through the chimney, but spreading throughout the room, it went through small openings under the ceiling, called fiber windows. It is clear that it was necessary to observe the middle ground - do not breathe carbon monoxide and do not go to steam when all the smoke comes out, and accordingly the temperature drops, and the process will be like a modern wash in the bathroom, where you can use various .
Courageous people went to steam when “smoke is a rocker” When inhaling this truly infernal mixture for an organism consisting of carbon monoxide dissolved in water particles, fainting often occurred or headaches started after some time, so the desire for a light vapor in those days was as they say not superfluous. The use of chimneys in the construction of a bathhouse or soap, as they were also called, the dose of carbon monoxide decreased by several times, now it was possible to whip yourself with a broom to stupefy and give in steam.
Light steam will not work without a competent heater.
The choice of stones for this whole science. Not every stone is equally useful for a bath. The stone should be dark in color, without veins and small inclusions of quartz. When soaking, it should dry evenly and have a rounded shape. Otherwise, when conducting bath procedures, you can’t avoid trouble: the wrong stone can crack and heat the unfortunate bathman with fragments. True, progress does not stand still and the ingenuity of the Russian person knows no boundaries. Instead of a long search for stones on the river bank, a savvy Russian man uses insulators from high-voltage transmission lines. The effect is the same as when using first-class stones.
It is sad to watch the unlucky bath attendants who whip themselves on their bodies with brooms, it is not clear where they were bought and when they are broken. Namely, when because the broom has medicinal properties, if it was prepared in a certain period. In some areas, it was considered a first-class broom, broken before the Trinity church holiday, when a birch or linden or oak is soft and contains substances that favorably affect our body in its foliage. Such substances are also used in so that the human body receives the maximum charge of energy.
I’ll tell you one more secret: the broom should be soaked 30-40 minutes before coming to the steam room, preferably in a wooden tub. In this case, at the entrance to the steam room you will expect an incomparable smell of a Russian bath.
Light steam in the bath is the main thing!
Well, here we got to the main thing in the bath. And the main thing in the bath is steam, everything else is entourage. Three easy tips for beginners:
- Do not pour cold water on the stove, as the steam will not be at the proper temperature;
- Do not pour boiling water, otherwise the pores of the skin will not open immediately.
- The optimum water temperature is the one in which our broom was steamed. With this, we immediately kill two birds with one stone: we get the right temperature in the steam room for the first session and the smell of a real natural character is incomparable with the chemical essences that are commercially available.
This is just the tip of the iceberg called bath procedures. No wonder experienced bath attendants are worth their weight in gold. I hope that after this short article, when you hear the sacramental phrase “ with light steam ”, its meaning will be clear to you.