Russian banya from Russia

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Nobody suspects the benefits of banya or sauna. Banya opens pores and stimulates skin breath, improves blood circulation, ameliorates heart and vascular system functioning, and it's a strong stimul for the intensification of capillary activities and metabolism. The heat of banya extinguishes bacteria on the human body, it makes the skin sterile, and this circumstance contributes to the fast healing of scratches, wounds and different traumas; moreover it takes off tiredness, nerve stress, restores strength, recovers good spirits and betters our moods.

Nevertheless in order to acquire these benefits we must overcome instinctive resistance of the organism to uncommon conditions of the steam room. Shock reaction ensues any time when the body gets into extraordinary conditions. Dry sauna has two sources of stress: high temperature and low humidity. Thus Russian banya providing approximately the same effect of heating as in sauna, has got an indisputable advantage in the sense of minimal shocking effect. As a matter of fact humidity in Russian banya is 60-70%. This is normal humidity of the atmospheric air. And the steam in Russian banya is drier (maximally dissociated) than with the use of a steam generator, that also corresponds to natural conditions. Temperature in Russian banya with the lighter steam is the same as in steam sauna, but two times lower than in dry sauna.

Venik in Russian banya plays a great role as regards warming up of the body and its massage. Connoisseurs differentiate about 30 modes of venik massage. Usually they use birch or oak veniks. Veniks from fir-tree or juniper are biting, and they are in favor amidst amateurs of piquant sensations.

A visit to Russian banya endows you with all the above mentioned benefits providing minimal shocking effect on organism, and it's very important for peope suffering from hypertonia and deseases of heart-vascular system. Recently we've discovered data of research carried out by German scientists regarding successful therapy of hypertonia and heart-vascular deseases thanks to banya attendance.

The research has been taking place in the University Clinic of Berlin for two years. A group of people under surveillance of doctors visited so-called "Saunarium" which corresponds to Russian banya by conditions of temperature and humidity. As a result it was assumed that attendance of banya reduces and normalizes blood pressure without medecines, decreases frequent heart beat, as well as it ameliorates capillary circulation of the blood and circulation of the blood in the limbs.

Doctor Hans Joahim Winterfeld recommends to visit banya twice a week, 2 entries by 8-10 minutes each time. Russian experts of banya advise to visit banya once a week. To say true, Russians usually manage to perform not less than 5 entries, and that is a tough loading. Some habitues of the celebrated Sandunov Banyas in Moscow prolong the bath process for the whole day. And there they alternate steaming with cooling procedures in the cold pool.