Herbal baths. Is it worth taking baths from herbs? Are they effective?

From this article you will learn which phytovannaya can be used for various diseases and nervous disorders, as well as how to prepare a herbal bath for a child correctly.

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Fitova with adding healing plants and herbs known your own healing, relaxing and restoring properties, that's why such procedures use popular in SPA—clinics, therapeutic and cosmetological centers. Following the main rules, organize such bath in home conditions not will be special difficulties.

Herbal baths at home

The therapeutic bath can be easily prepared by adding natural plant components that have a certain therapeutic effect
Depending on the type of medicinal herbs, temperature and duration of the bath, the bath will have a particular effect. It is useful to combine herbal bath with hydromassage or contrast shower
For therapeutic phytovann, you can use decoctions and infusions of flowers, leaves, fruits and rhizomes of medicinal plants and herbs in fresh or dried form, as well as dry extracts or alcohol tinctures
Herbal baths have a healing effect in skin diseases, muscle pain, rheumatism, acute and chronic diseases of the genitourinary system, nervous and mental disorders, sleep disorders, relieve stress and fatigue, increase immunity

Aromatic baths-coniferous, sage, citrus fruits with the addition of essential oils of patchouli, tea tree, ylang-ylang, geranium, orange, lemon, rosemary, bergamota are used in aesthetic cosmetology to enhance blood circulation and opening of pores, which helps to penetrate the skin of active substances that provide Local and general anti -aging effects.

Treatment with baths is usually carried out in several courses of 10-20 procedures. You should be guided by the general rules for conducting hydropower procedures:

Before taking the bath, perform mandatory hygiene procedures - clean the skin with a scrub and a shower gel, wipe the zone with ripe skin with a pumia
During the adoption of the therapeutic bath, make a self -massage, starting with the toes, gradually moving higher. Massage can be performed with a massage brush or mitten
After the massage, relax and lie down for 5-7 minutes
To avoid overdrying the skin after frequent water procedures, use a moisturizer, lotion or oil

Grass infusion

Most often, infusions of chamomile flowers, linden, calendula, series, celandine, thyme, lavender, mint leaves, oak bark, juniper, birch, fir, pine trees are used to make phytovann.

250-300 g of dry grass, flowers or rhizomes of the plant pour 1 liter of water and boil for 10 minutes, then leave for half an hour for insisting, after strain and add to the bath.

Useful herbal body baths

A relaxing grass bath to relieve daily voltage and fatigue at a temperature of 37º, its duration is 20-30 minutes
A warming bath at a temperature of 38-42º will enhance blood circulation and help prevent a cold (duration of not more than 10-15 minutes)
For an invigorating bath, the water temperature is 24-29º, 5-10 minutes in cool water will be enough to feel a surge of strength and energy

Chamomile baths thanks to content etheric oils provide soothing and regenerating action at catarrhal states andskin diseases, open and internal inflammatory processes, wounds, abscesses.

An infusion of oak bark has astringent and analgesic properties. Due to the content of tanic acid in the plant, baths with oak bark have an antipyretic and healing effect, are used to treat frostbite, burns, atopic dermatitis, varicose veins.

The fruits of juniper and rosehips contain essential oils, organic acids and phytoncides, have anti -inflammatory and diuretic properties. Water procedures with decoctions of these berries are effective for diseases of the genitourinary system, skin diseases, edema and varicose veins.

Soothing herbal baths

Coniferous baths with adding decoction pine or fir branches provide expressed relaxing impact, normalize functions cordially—vascular systems, beneficial influence on the general condition organism, especially in period distribution viral and infectious diseases and post -traumatic period
Baths with infusion of valerian root soothe the nervous system, relieve nervous strain and stress states, restore mental balance and sleep
Baths with a collection of herbs - motherwort, wormwood and linden flowers will help to cope with irritation and fatigue, contribute to the overall relaxation and removal of muscle tone

Bath grass

Medical baths with the addition of the following fees of medicinal herbs are also useful that have a pronounced healing effect:

Collection of mint, oregano and thyme will help to cheer up, feel the morning freshness and lightness. For the bath, take 200 ml of the infusion of each of the herbs separately (2-p.
The collection of valerian and motherwort with needles will relieve emotional stress and give a calm sleep. Add one glass of each infusion to warm water, do water procedures 2 times a week before bedtime for 15 minutes
With sweating and oily, prone to irritation of the skin, a bath will help with the addition of a collection of sage, a string and bark of oak. Prepare one glass of each infusion, add to hot water, after the bath, take a contrast shower and rub the skin with a hard terry towel

Herbal bath

There are quite a lot of herbs for the foot baths, contributing to the elimination of fatigue and swelling of the legs, as well as positively affecting the aesthetic appearance of the feet. Among them, the most useful are nettles, horsetail, calendula flowers, St. John's wort, and mint. You can also use broths of the peel of fresh fruits - grenade and citrus fruits.

Take with st. l. horsetail, pour a glass of boiling water, leave to brew for an hour
Add filtered infusion to warm water and lower your legs for 20 minutes to relieve tension and fatigue
Boil 500 ml of water, pour 100 g of calendula colors, close the container with a lid, remove from the stove and leave for 40 minutes, then strain the infusion and add to the bath. Such procedures have wound healing and bactericidal properties, are useful for damage to the skin of the feet - cracks, scuffs, abrasions, corns
Take 50 g of nettles and St. John's wort, pour two glasses of boiling water and leave for half an hour. Then strain the infusion and add to hot water. Foot baths stimulate blood circulation, have a regenerative and restoring effect
After water procedures, thoroughly wipe the feet and the space between the fingers. Wet skin can crack easily, which can lead to infection.
Then apply a nourishing cream for the legs and put on cotton socks

Herbal baths for children

The purpose of herbal baths for children can be different, depending on what grass you use for bathing. Therapeutic baths are able to relieve fatigue in the child, calm before bedtime, cleanse and improve the skin, improve metabolic processes in the body, and strengthen immunity. If there are any health problems, be sure to consult a doctor about the possibility of treating herbal baths.

With dermatitis and neurodermatitis, as well as dry skin for children, baths with oatmeal will be useful, due to the large content of nutrients, trace elements and valuable oils in it. To prepare such a bath, put 50 g of oatmeal in a gauze bag, hold it a little in warm water, then squeeze it out
Relaxing and soothing baths for children are recommended to make chamomile, turn, birch leaves, nettles, linden -colored from infusion. Such water procedures are useful for strengthening the nervous system and improving sleep
At the first signs of colds, a bath with eucalyptus oil (10-15 drops), which is a natural disinfectant and helps to quickly stop the symptoms of the disease, will be effective

Herbal baths for newborns

Pediatricians also recommend that the daily bathing of babies, adding decoctions of herbs with pronounced antiseptic, bactericidal and relaxing properties to boiled water. To prepare the infusion, take 30 g of pharmacy grass per 100 ml of water, boil for 10 minutes, then cool and strain through gauze.

Pediatricians also recommend that the daily bathing of babies, adding decoctions of herbs with pronounced antiseptic, bactericidal and relaxing properties to boiled water. To prepare the infusion, take 30 g of pharmacy herbs per 100 ml of water, boil for 10 minutes, then cool and strain through gauze. With skin rashes, sweating, atopic dermatitis, diaper rash, baths are useful with the addition of oak bark, pine kidneys, rosehip berries, rosehip berries, and rosewales. which are natural antiseptics and have a mild wound healing effect
Baths against swelling of the abdomen have a beneficial effect on children subject to spasms and colic. It is recommended to use a decoction of motherwort, hop cones, staptracks, fennel. Such baths can be done twice a day before feeding
Soothing baths are useful for active kids with moody, restless behavior and sleep disturbance. Valerian, lavender, thyme, mint are suitable for such procedures

Herbal baths for weight loss

If you want to get rid of excess weight, therapeutic baths can provide additional assistance. It should be understood that only with the help of water procedures it is impossible to lose weight, the bathtubs are only an auxiliary tool to improve metabolism, increase blood circulation, tonic and regeneration of the skin.

Among the herbs that contribute to weight loss, one can call the most valuable: Tatar, mint, oregano, calendula flowers, chamomile, rosehip fruits, yarrow, rosemary, leaves and fruits of currants. Decoctions of these plants have a beneficial effect on the skin during the diets and physical exertion aimed at reducing weight, help maintain skin elasticity, prevent the loss of elasticity and moisture
All decoctions are prepared in the usual way, they need to be added to warm water with a temperature of not higher than 35-37º, take a bath for Z0 minutes. In the process of losing weight, you should pay attention to the regularity of procedures, alternate herbal baths with hydromassage and contrasting dousing and aqua-aerobic

Herbal baths for psoriasis

Psoriasis refers to group chronic diseases skin, requiring continuous supportive therapy. AT period exacerbations appear characteristic unpleasant manifestations, let loose or eliminate which can not only medication and physiotherapeutic funds, but and therapeutic fitova.

Herbal baths help normalize in one—fatty balance superficial layers skin, reduce intensity rashes and education ulcers, softened, remove itching, irritation and peeling, possess common toning action. For improvements general states recommended alternate compound herbs
Liquid or dry pharmacy extract needles dissolve in one glasses water, add in warm water, accept bath near 20 minutes.By 100 g flowers chamomile, thyme and bark oak pour H glasses water and boil 10 minutes, strain. Procedure spend at medium temperature water duration 30 minutes
Baths with birch tincture possess bactericidal, regenerating and anti -inflammatory properties, that's why wide applied at heavy skin pathologies – eczemam, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, dermatosa different origin
For preparations tinctures grind in stupka or blender fresh birch kids and leaves, pour alcohol or vodka in ratio 1:H, insist in flow weeks. Add in water 100 ml tinctures, temperature baths must to be maximum high, duration procedures – not more 15 minutes

Herbal baths for cystitis

Diseases urogenital systems, to which refers cystitis, often there are called microorganisms, provoking inflammatory processes. Diagnostics and therapy in such cases must held strictly under control doctor with compliance all recommendations and reception antibacterial drugs.

Herbal baths at cystitis applied, how funds complimentary medicine in composition complex treatment.Good painkiller and antimicrobial action provide baths with adding infusion flowers chamomile, pine needles or collection from equal parts st. John's wort, celandine and yarrow
Temperature water must make up 38—40º, accept bath in flow 20 minutes, then thoroughly wipe skin, put on warm lingerie