Quenching with water is the source of vivacity and eternal health

Cold water as a healing and hardening agent has been given credit for many generations of hydropaths. The combination of systematic hardening with cold water and intensive physical exercises is the most powerful and right stimulant of vivacity and an inexhaustible source of eternal health.

The founder of rational hydrotherapy - Greek famous physician Hippocrates, who studied thoroughly the very physiological effect on the human body of water. He clearly determined that the action of cold water is expressed in arousal, and warm - in relaxation. He considered rubbing, bathing and dousing (hardening by water) a therapeutic potent remedy.

Indeed, conventional water hardening is the most effective and generally available means for promoting health. Even non-long, short-term douches that act on the central nervous system, invigorate, relieve fatigue.

The effect of the cold water used causes a reflex narrowing of the skin vessels (and the skin contains 1/3 of the whole blood). The constriction and subsequent expansion of these blood vessels is a kind of gymnastics for the cardiovascular system, which promotes intensive blood circulation. It gradually causes mobilization and a moderate supply of reserve blood mass to the total blood flow.

Under the influence of cold temperature water, the diaphragm activates, ventilation in the lungs intensifies, breathing becomes free and deep, the number of leukocytes and erythrocytes increases. All this has a beneficial effect on the course of oxidative processes, as well as on the metabolism in general. In addition, sexual potency increases, which has a good stimulating effect on the NS, and therefore, on the personal attitude.

But the main advantage of the procedure "hardening with water" is the perfection of the unstable thermoregulation apparatus, due to which the body temperature even in the most unfavorable and intolerable state of the environment always remains within optimal limits, and the developed protective forces of the human body are constantly in "combat readiness".

Those who only plan water quenching, first of all, should train themselves to wash their face and hands with cold water on a regular basis, which definitely contributes to the increase of human efficiency, vigorous well-being and accustoms to "feel" the cold water itself.

Wiping the body is the most "soft" means of hardening with water. It is done with a wet towel or with a wrung sponge. First, wipe your hands, then your neck, back, chest, legs. When rubbing, the movement of the hands should be in the direction along the vessels, more precisely, from the periphery to the center. Circular movements on the abdomen must be done clockwise. Accustomed to wiping, it's time to move on to the procedure more palpable - douche. When doused, they overturn a bucket (basin) with water so that it flows down the whole body.

To prolong the hardening effect of cold water it is not necessary to use a towel to wipe after using it, you just have to dry your head dry and wet the body with soft, light strokes until you feel some pleasant warmth, and then dress quickly.

An effective means of hardening is the contrast shower. There are: strong contrast, medium contrast and low contrast. Such hardening with water causes an excellent healing and strengthening effect with a fairly rapid achievement of the desired effect of training the heat adaptation of physiological mechanisms.

Duration of douche or a contrast shower is maximum 5 minutes, at which it is necessary to make changes in the cold to heat; At each change the soft thermal effect must necessarily be somewhere in 2 p. Longer than exposure to cold water. To finish the contrast procedure it is necessary to influence only cold water.

The duration of stay in open water bodies should be regulated depending on the temperature of the water and weather conditions, on health, the degree of training involved in tempering.

For people who are practically healthy the most rational is the following dosage of bathing in time:

• +22 ... + 25 ° C - 5-16 minutes;
• +18 ... + 22 ° C - 4-6 minutes;
• +14 ... + 18 ° С - 1,5-3,5 minutes;
• +10 ... + 14 ° С - 0,5-1,5 minutes;
• +6 ... +10 ° C - about 1.5 minutes;
• +2 ... + 6 ° C - 30-40 seconds;
• About 0 ° C - 14-30 seconds

Systematic hardening with water is mandatory for all who wish to achieve the highest form in cold hardening - walrus.

Rules of water quenching

№1 Graduality. When the initial water temperature is 32 ° C, the next step will be the use of water of the same temperature, and only on the third day - 31 ° C. It is recommended to lower the temperature by 1 ° C in 2 days.

№2 Systematic. Purposeful hardening should be done daily. If 1 week of hardening is carried out, and the second is no longer carried out, then the unoccupied organism can not always adapt to different loads.

№ 3 It is necessary to take into account personal individual characteristics. After all, one can start with a temperature of 26-25 ° C, and another - no lower than 34-33 ° C.

№4 Complexity. In order to be purposefully hardened, it is advisable to choose one basic means. And the whole way of life together with this should contribute to tempering.

№ 5 Hardening with water should be started only in the absence of any acute disease, with the complete elimination of the inflammatory chronic process.