The cedar wood was used for healing a long time ago. The cedar was revered as a healing tree in Siberia, the monks of Tibet knew about its unique properties , even doctors today speak of its beneficial effect on improving the functioning of the immune system as a whole. Many wellness centers, hospitals today offer wellness treatments in cedar mini saunas.
Cedar barrel - benefits and harms
One of the ancient Slavic healers preserved in the Arkhangelsk library demonstrates the treatment procedure in a barrel. In the figure, a barrel stands on stones near a bonfire in which the stones are heated. When hot stones were placed under the barrel, they were watered with decoctions of medicinal herbs, and the one sitting in the barrel was breathing this steam. At the same time, treatment took place both through steam and through hot water in the barrel. Thus healed the fever, treated pain in the joints and spine, backache, even angina pectoris.
Why was the cedar barrel taken, the benefits and harms of which are not comparable? Yes, precisely because it can cause harm to health only in one case - if there are objective contraindications to taking bathing procedures in general. In all other cases, a steam room arranged in a cedar barrel will bring only benefits to the body.
A mini-sauna is perfect for those who want to relieve tension and stress after a tiring working day, physical activity. This is the first preventive measure against acute respiratory infections, since it cleanses the mucous membrane, helps improve blood circulation, increases the activity of metabolic processes, stimulates the immune system, and volatile products secreted by the cedar tree kill microbes and viruses, have anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effects, significantly reduce pain in radiculitis, sprains .
Wellness
A distinctive feature of the Cedar Barrel mini-sauna is that the steam is heated there gradually to a temperature of about 50 degrees. And already in the first 10 minutes, the skin begins to breathe, and the saturation of vapors with essential oils and herbal infusions ensures their active absorption. Their effect has a relaxing and calming effect, blood vessels expand, venous congestion is eliminated, and body thermoregulation is restored. Each patient can choose an individual set of herbs and oils, depending on the indications, to achieve the greatest effect. The recommended stay in such a steam room is 15-20 minutes.
Microdroplets of grass vapor continue to be absorbed through the skin after the procedure, so take your time to take a shower. After a sauna session, you should relax, drink your favorite herbal infusion. If possible, massage, this will enhance the effect of the phytosauna.
Slimming
The female half of humanity is constantly in search of a means to help lose weight. In this case, a cedar barrel is indispensable. The benefits and harms of this procedure are obvious. Firstly, the skin is cleansed with steam, exfoliation of dead cells occurs, the smallest blood vessels open and work actively. All this makes the skin smoother, healthier, firmer. Secondly, since the skin interacts more actively with herbs (it absorbs almost half of the healing herbal vapor), the effect of phytotherapy increases. This leads to the disappearance of signs of cellulite. True, doctors are skeptical about the possibility of losing a lot with the help of a phytobarrel, but nevertheless they note some effect. After all, then there is a lot of toxins, blood flow is accelerated, metabolism is normalized, which means that the body begins to actively process internal fats.
Contraindications cedar barrels
Like any apparatus used in medicine, a mini-sauna "cedar barrel" may not be recommended to everyone. There are several serious medical diagnoses that preclude the use of this herbal procedure. You should not use the sauna for those who have cancer, are affected by cirrhosis of the liver, there are problems with the lungs (tuberculosis) or veins (thrombophlebitis), high blood pressure or arrhythmia, there are skin diseases (eczema, fungi), a tendency to bleeding.
Also, steam procedures for long periods of pregnancy and for individual allergies to cedar oil are not recommended .
To summarize
To restore the immune system and skin health, of course, such a phytotherapy as a cedar barrel is recommended. The benefit and harm that a person can do to his body, taking it without the recommendation of a doctor, depends only on himself. If you do not have contraindications, then take good health!