Turpentine baths are a natural treatment. It allows you to make an impact on the capillary network of the entire skin. The healing effect of these procedures is due to the active substance used to carry them out. Such a component is gum turpentine. Get it from the resin, which is taken from trees related to conifers.
What are turpentine baths? The instruction for these procedures fully describes the methodology for their preparation and implementation. All manipulations are quite simple.
Turpentine baths have healing power. How to make them yourself? To carry out such a procedure at home, you should fill the bathtub with water to half. The temperature of the liquid should be thirty-seven degrees. With the help of an enameled container, the turpentine mixture is measured and diluted with hot water pouring from the tap. The resulting solution is poured into the bath. There it mixes well for even distribution. Only then can you immerse yourself in the bath. After three minutes that have passed since the beginning of the manipulations, it is necessary to add a little hot water. The duration of the procedure is on average 15-20 minutes. The first baths spend no more than five minutes, each time increasing the intake time by one to two minutes. In the event that the procedure is uncomfortable, you should lower the temperature of the water in the bath, reduce the amount of gum or reduce the time spent.
Indications and contraindications for turpentine baths. They are recommended for various diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Such pathologies include thrombophlebitis and angina pectoris, hypertension and hypotension, Rhine disease and vegetovascular dystonia.
Before taking turpentine baths, the indications and contraindications of these procedures need to be well studied. A remarkable effect can be achieved with their use in diseases of the joints. Allow these procedures to alleviate the patient's condition with arthritis and arthrosis, rheumatism and osteochondrosis. Therapeutic baths are used to get rid of pyelonephritis and cystitis, glomerulonephritis and urethritis. Thus, we can talk about their beneficial effects in pathologies of the urinary system. Turpentine baths are indicated for ailments of the gallbladder and liver, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis and cholecystitis. Procedures with gum component can alleviate the patient's condition with bronchial asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis and pharyngitis. They treat prostatitis and adnexitis with healing baths. Turpentine is also used in neurology. Healing baths treat neuritis and lumbalgia, sciatica and polyneuropathy.
For diabetes and obesity, as well as for various types of colds, turpentine baths have indications. And these procedures also have contraindications. It is forbidden to take them with open forms of tuberculosis. They are not recommended for arrhythmias and scabies, heart failure attributable to the second or third degree, and women during pregnancy, as well as in the presence of malignant tumors. The procedure with resin in exacerbations of chronic diseases is prohibited. They are not prescribed for acute inflammatory processes, as well as for hypertension of the second and third stages. There is also individual intolerance to such procedures.
At home, turpentine baths can be taken all year round. Indications and contraindications for such procedures should be fully studied.