Cold, health and beauty

Advertizing teaches us that are necessary for us for finding of health and cheerfulness a magic bracelet, the supermassager, all-powerful dietary supplements or, what is even worse, a flu inoculation.

All these things have one general feature - they does not demand regular efforts. Everything that needs to be made - just to come and buy/pay a prick. And after that it is possible to sleep peacefully - it seems as you zaboitsya about the health.

Certainly, not everything that we see in advertizing, is bad, however, excessively relying on magic tablets, we forget about simpler and more effective ways of maintaining health.

From time immemorial hardening was considered as one of the most well-tried remedies of prevention of diseases. Its essence is that at the regular dosed impact of cold at an organism resistance to overcooling which causes catarrhal diseases is developed.

However good immunity - not the only positive result of hardening. At regular trainings you will also be able to improve a condition of nervous and blood systems and to normalize a metabolism that, by the way, will positively affect a figure, the completeness most often arises because of violation of exchange processes. Besides, hardening trains vessels, and you will feel less pressure differences, so, you will be hurt less by the head. Generally, a thing useful and in everyday life just necessary. However, to receive result, it is necessary to follow some rules:

It is necessary to be engaged daily, without taking a break for the weekend or holidays. The organism becomes steady against cold only if negative factors affect it constantly, thus forcing it to adapt.
If all of you caught a cold, then hardening can be continued, but at the same time it is desirable to reduce loading (for example, to have a shower bath warmer water). However if the disease seriously took you by the throat (both in direct, and in figurative meanings), then it is better to stop procedures for a while. If the break lasts more than a week, then then it is necessary to start everything anew (from the same temperature and duration) - for such term the organism usually weans from impact of cold and you can get sick from too sharp temperature drop.
Regardless of type of procedures it is important to observe the principle of gradual increase in loading. It is impossible to shock an organism with sharp and long impact of cold at once.

Usually when the speech to come about hardening, all first of all think only of water procedures. However it is much more ways of hardening.

Air bathtubs

Air bathtubs - the most natural way of hardening. It is necessary to accept them completely naked, however it is obvious that it is quite difficult to carry out it in conditions it is modern the megalopolis therefore it is enough to manage simply the clothes which are well passing air. For the normal adult the reference temperature of air bathtubs has to be not lower than 12 degrees of heat. At the same time it is very important that on the street there was no wind, otherwise you risk to catch a cold. For the first session it is enough "to hold on" only one minute, subsequently time of influence can be increased up to 40 minutes. After such bathtub it is useful to climb under a warm shower. By the way, air bathtubs are perfectly combined with physical exercises and also prayers or mantras - to whom what is closer.

Circulation barefoot

Too all heard that barefoot it is useful to go. However for obtaining effect it is necessary to make contrast impact on feet. About 10-20 years ago circulation on snow was very popular. If to judge by the name, then it is possible to think that rather just to go outside in a frost and to shirk barefoot. Of course, it not so. Sense as it was already told, in contrast. That is after you stood on snow, it is necessary to lower right there legs in hot water (not in boiled water, of course) then to wipe dry and to put on socks. Certainly, all this makes sense only at regular trainings.

Douches of legs

One more way of impact on an organism "through legs" - douche. If you had first symptoms of varicosity, then the best medicine will not be thought up. Douches can be done right after a shower or even instead of. It is necessary to begin with warm water (about 30 degrees) and gradually (not in one day!) to reduce it, you will not reach 12 degrees yet. After you finished douches, it is necessary to pound at once legs and to put on warm socks.

Contrast shower

Ideal means for those it is difficult for whom to lift itself in the morning from a bed. As it becomes: at first you get up under a shower of temperature, comfortable for you, then include the most hot water approximately for a minute, then switch off hot water and leave only cold for about 30 seconds, after that - again hot. Ideally - three times, however for the first several weeks will be also one "approach" enough. Be not afraid to catch a cold - at short-term influence cold is useful, the main thing - do not forget to be wiped and wrapped up properly after a shower more warmly. And do not thrust the head under an ice shower at all! Hair not from it will become better to grow (spit in eyes to the one who will tell it to you), rather you receive an angiospasm, and together with it some unpleasant LOR-disease.

Winter swimming - extreme hardening

There are such desperate people who not only on snow go in the winter, but also, without having trembled, jump in an ice-hole, and after that manage not to get sick. Most often they are called walruses, is more rare - residents of Ivanovo, i.e. Porfiriya Ivanov's followers. This person that he could take out easily any frost was famous and at the same time not catch a cold. During World War II Germans even put experiments with Ivanov: dug in during snow, rode on a frost on the motorcycle, and to it though that. In what a secret?

On a legend, at some point of the life Porfiry decided to refuse completely clothes and footwear that as he spoke, to eliminate a gap between the person and the nature. He was regularly engaged in hardening of an organism: went on snow, bathed in an ice-hole, had a shower bath water, starved.

Generally, did everything to keep the body healthy and it must be said, not bad succeeded in it. And here with mentality Ivanov had big problems - to him made the diagnosis "schizophrenia" twice. However, following to its system will not necessarily bring you to Kashchenko at all. Moreover, if you try "to pomorzhevat", then with you, most likely, nothing terrible will occur. The main thing - not to do it without special preparation and to follow all rules.

First, it is necessary to be cooled gradually: at first to take off outerwear, then footwear, then to undress on a belt (all this with small to breaks) and only then to come (to come, but not to dive) into water. Secondly, bathing has to last no more than 1-2 minutes. And, at last, thirdly, right after bathing, it is necessary to pound a body a towel and to leave cold to the warm room.

Winter swimming is considered an extreme way of hardening and it has a number of contraindications therefore before to rush to an ice-hole with the head, consult to the doctor.

Cold and beauty

We described a set of ways of strengthening of a body, however no words told about the most important property of the woman - about the person. And it it is possible too and it is even necessary to subject to procedures of hardening. Most often it is possible to hear council to wipe skin with ice cubes - allegedly Cleopatra and Maria Stewart so did, a poet they until the end of life had fine skin.

The theory says that kollagena in our skin initially are in the twisted state, but over time because of bad water, ecology, they gradually lose a tension, and skin begins to look flabby. Ice forces kollagena to be twisted again in a spiral because of what skin takes healthier form. So way really good. By the way, it is possible to freeze not only water, but also grass infusions - thus the double advantage for skin will turn out. Still the good way - to freeze the water mixed with lemon juice then a flush is provided to you.

Unfortunately, washing by ice suits not all. For example, at owners of dry skin in several weeks peeling can begin, but if you have oily skin, then washings by ice can improve its appearance considerably. However, it is possible to return to skin a tone and without ice use. Contrast washings and compresses give excellent effect. Experts recommend to make these procedures and in the morning, and in the evening - and to finish with cold water in the morning to cheer up, and in the evening warm to calm skin.

Important remark: it is possible to experiment with "cooling" of the person (and bodies, by the way, too) only if you are sure that you have no inflammation because sharp impact of cold can aggravate it. The same concerns also all other tempering procedures. If you have a weak immunity or there are some chronic diseases, then "holodoterapiya" can do much harm. However, in most cases hardening brings only benefit. Perhaps, you feel positive changes in your organism not at once, but precisely already about the first days will feel much more vigorously, and at least therefore it is worth it. So be cooled on health!