Sitting bath
In addition to the usual full baths or semi-baths, the sit-in baths are also used. Cold sessile baths are used as a preventive and hardening agent. Instead of a special sitting bath you can use a wide shallow basin made of plastic or metal, filled with water by 1/4 volume. Sit in one pelvis, standing on a chair, and put your feet in the other, which is located on the floor. It is desirable that the lower half of the abdomen and the upper half of the thighs are covered with water.
Cold sedentary baths are used mainly for the treatment of organs located in the lower abdomen. This procedure helps to improve digestion, promotes gas separation, improves bowel function and normalizes blood circulation. Cold sessile baths are useful for people suffering from insomnia. They can be taken at night, with difficulties with falling asleep. With the help of cold sedentary baths, gynecological diseases can be treated.
The duration of the procedure is from 30 seconds to 4 minutes. Cold sedentary baths are recommended to be taken 2-3 times a week, too frequent procedures can lead to the appearance of hemorrhoids.
For therapeutic purposes, warm and hot sessile baths are used, into which it is possible to add a decoction of horsetail of field, hay, and oat straw. The broth is prepared in the same way as described in the section on complete baths with additives. Duration of reception of a warm herbal sedentary bath is 15-20 minutes, the frequency of the procedure is 2-3 times a week. This same bath can also be used after 3-4 hours, when the water cools down. It is recommended to take a hot sedentary bath for 10-12 minutes, cool - 5-10 minutes. The course of treatment - 12-15 procedures.
A sitting bath with decoction of horsetail is used to treat convulsive, rheumatic conditions, with kidney and bladder diseases, with urolithiasis, difficulty urinating.
A sitting bath of oat straw helps with articular pain and aching in the bones.
The saddle bath made of haylings has a good effect in the treatment of constipation, hemorrhoids, with gastric colic, external tumors. When old hemorrhoids warm, herbal sessile baths are recommended to alternate with cold.
Local baths
Local baths are made in a basin or bucket, immersing an arm or leg in them. So that during such a bath muscles are not strained, the arm should be bent at the elbow joint, and the leg in the knee joint. The water temperature for these procedures can be constant, contrast or gradually increased. Warm and hot local baths with a constant temperature should last from 10 to 20 minutes, cold - 5-10 minutes. The course - from 5 to 10-12 procedures daily or every other day.
Warm and hot foot and hand baths are used for some inflammatory diseases of the joints of the feet and brushes, foot hot baths - for colds, insomnia, etc. Cold local baths are recommended as a hardening procedure. With the same purpose, as well as with diseases of the vessels of the extremities, contrast baths are prescribed.
Useful and curative properties of a sedentary cold bath
The cold sedentary bath improves digestion, regulates blood circulation, helps with gynecological diseases. It is necessary to pour water into the bath so that it reaches the bottom of the stomach. Duration 1 / 4-4 minutes. It also helps with insomnia and neurosis.
Useful and curative properties of a warm sitting bath
It is best to do with decoctions of field horsetail, oat straw or hay. Helps with external tumors, with stomach weakness, constipation, hemorrhoids, colic, etc. Duration 1/4 hours. The broth can be used repeatedly. Such baths can be repeated 2-3 times a week, alternating with cold baths.