Harvesting brooms for a bath

Brooms are distinctive and essential attribute of Russian bath.Thanks to them, the pair creates an incomparable atmosphere and spirit.It is no coincidence blank brooms for a bath, storage and use are subject to centuries-old folk traditions.At first glance, it seems that in the blank attribute this bath is no big deal.However, not all are aware of the intricacies that do not allow to lose the scent of leaves and crumbling with time.

How and when to harvest besoms

Traditionally, brooms begin harvesting the Trinity, which is celebrated in mid-June.At this time, blooming trees, grasses and shrubs.The leaves on them are strengthened, properly typed juice and have the most flavor.Choose a sunny and clear day in the morning or go riding in the forest.The branches can be cut with a knife or just twist off your hands.

Good advice.branches should be collected not for brooms in damp weather, because wet leaves quickly fold into a tube and fly around.It is better to do it when the dew come down, but the heat has not yet come into full force, that is, either in the morning hours of the day.

brooms to choose fresh branches, since they contain a large number of volatile production, various essential oils and other active substances.From them break off twigs of length 50 -60 cm and release them from the lower part of the leaves and small branches.First, take a few thick branches and collect them into a bundle.Then attached to it thinner branches bending inwards.Broom make it easy to flapping when they are not tired arm.So do not overdo it with the number of branches in a single product.Grasp should be done in 15 cm from the edge of the handle, close to the leaves.To do this, twine or plastic rope tightly pulls the handle of a broom in two places.In conclusion, dub edge of an ax handle.He also cut off too long or strongly protruding branches.

Finished products should be stored in the shade.After all, under the influence of direct sunlight all useful and essential fragrances necessarily erode.It is best suited to dry brooms dry darkened portion of the attic bath, garage or the house itself.Well, if there is a pile of hay.It will be absolutely wonderful brooms bury him.In the conditions of a city they can be defined on a balcony or loggia, at least in paper bags in the attic cabinets.

There is another method of harvesting brooms.It does not imply their immediate production.Harvested branches initially dried, for example, on the roof of some outbuildings.To do this, do that here:

• spread out on a flat surface of the meadow hay.
• On it lay branches next to each other with small gaps.
• Top back cover them with another layer of hay.
• Every 3 days branches tumbled during the month.

then branches covered with fresh grass and finally dried leaves until the beginning of October.Only then knit brooms on the technology described above.This method allows you to dry the leaves with the maximum amount of nutrients.

Good advice.When choosing a place for the procurement of brooms, make sure that it was as far away from industrial enterprises, cattle-breeding complexes and roads.The products of human activities adversely affect wildlife.

Features harvested and useful properties of various plants brooms

In addition, there are many plants birch, brooms made of branches which are used in bath procedures for medicinal and health purposes.You can use a broom branches in only one species, but are often used in practice, the combined options when, for example, in birch or oak broom weave threads of other healthy plants of the organism.And a lot of them there.Let us consider in detail each of them.

Birch

The most common is the birch broom.About the time it was mentioned above the workpiece.The best wood for harvesting a young weeping birch tree growing near the pond.Ideally, if it has never bloomed.Such leaves are more delicate trees.Branches should be cut thin, long and straight.In order not to harm the sapling, it is only necessary to take the side branches or suckers.

Billets linked in pairs and hung to dry in a well ventilated shaded area.In a week harvesting definitively linked and put into storage.They should be dark green matte color and exude a pleasant scent of birch, which is further enhanced in the steam room.

Broom from birch is very good for pain syndromes in joints and muscles after strenuous exercise.It perfectly cleanses the skin, especially when its tendency to develop acne.Thanks to the substances contained in a birch, accelerating the healing process of small wounds and abrasions.Birch has a pronounced calming effect.

Expansion of small bronchi helps expectoration and stimulates respiration.Therefore, asthmatics, smokers, allergy sufferers should always use a birch broom.Its leaves also contain vitamin C and provitamin A, essential oils and tannins.

Oak

Oak branches can be harvested throughout the summer.Cut off their need with those oaks, which grow in the dark and damp wood or oak.Mating and drying oak brooms made in the same manner as birch.Brooms oak is not very well absorb sweat, so they are always dry.However, they almost never fly around and are well accepted by people with oily skin.Oak still helps with hypertension.It contains tannins, perfectly clean the entire skin.

After using oak broom dermis becomes dull and elastic, and foci of inflammation disappear.Fragrance leaves effectively lowers blood pressure, beneficial effects on the central nervous system.All this helps to relieve constant stress.Oak decoction is used as the curing agent during the course of skin diseases and excessive sweating of the feet.

juniper branches of juniper for making broom harvested in late spring or early summer.Fans of the bath and its related procedures, know all the benefits of such a broom.This shrub is able to secrete a resin that is very beneficial for our health.Because juniper branches make independent brooms, include them in other "bouquets" or simply lining their floor.Harvest juniper until mid-summer.To use the branches, their zaparivayut about half an hour.Juniper is able to stimulate sweating, it increases the blood flow in the deepest layers of muscle, and sometimes some internal organs.Juniper twigs are good for a massage for sore spine, in the case of sciatica and neuralgia.

Eucalyptus

for billets from eucalyptus (if anyone has such an opportunity) used eucalyptus leaves prutovidnogo.The branches are cut in August.Experts recommend to include them in the most ordinary birch or oak "bouquets".A broom made of branches of a tree south, is filled with 1-3% essential oil, with this and associated its medicinal qualities for colds.Most of all it helps with sore throat and runny nose.It is applied to the face in the steam room and breathe through his nose a few minutes.

Cherry, currant, alder, linden, rowan, coniferous

Cherry and currant harvesting done in the beginning of the summer.For this purpose, useless cut shoots and growth at the roots.Brooms of alder, linden, mountain ash, it is best to harvest from July to mid-August.

easiest case with twigs of conifers.They can be made at any time of year, because such products can not be stored.Dry needles necessarily crumble.Almost all conifers have healing properties.The needles contain antioxidants and rich in vitamin C. It promotes healing of wounds on the skin and has a powerful effect obscheozdoravlivayuschy.In addition, the pine scent in the steam room exactly will not leave anyone indifferent.Sweating brooms of conifers should be cautious, especially pine and cedar as their needles quite tough even after steaming.

nettle

in medical and health-building purposes often use brooms nettle.If properly manufactured, they will not burn the skin.To do this, two or three times in turn to dip it in boiling water, then in cold water.Then, it may be safely used in the steam room.The city can not be found thickets of this environmentally friendly plants.Nettle that grows along the highway, no good.It is necessary to tear the shoots of young plants in the clean area.Brooms nettle great tone and relieve muscle pain, helps with radiculitis and joint aches.Nettles for brooms tear before and during the bloom itself, that is in July.

Sagebrush

But brooms made from wormwood, on the contrary, can not be done in the period of flowering plants.Artemisia pollen can cause skin irritation, so it is necessary to tear faded but not withered stalks.This plant has a bright with incomparable flavor and medicinal properties.

Good advice.Plucked in the forest branches for brooms should not be tightly packed for transportation.This can lead to overheating and shattering.

How quickly steamed bath broom

There are several different ways to brew brooms for a bath.Most often made as follows: 2-3 minutes broom is lowered into the basin of ice water, and then hold the same in warm water and hot water are placed finally.This is not to use hot water.Taz cover any lid or other basin to the broom is good "warm up".Take it after it starts to emit a delightful fragrance.

water that remained of steaming is used for watering the stones and walls.This will create even more flavor in the bath.Fresh or dried up a little brooms never steamed as they too soaked with water and become heavy.Their thermal conductivity increases strongly.For this reason, you can get burned.

story of bath broom

history bath broom covered with fog, like history itself of Russian bath.It is known that it was used by the ancient Slavs.Broom making bath doubly useful and has curative effect on the entire body.Since ancient times, renowned for their qualities of oak and birch brooms.They have always considered medicinal.In ancient times healers used them for the expulsion of ailments for medical purposes.

When the West came to take Russian bath tradition, the broom caught on there.Today, Western baths have a view of a conventional steam room or sauna, as in the Scandinavian countries.

In the sauna you can not use brooms, because it is physically impossible.The air there is too dry, the leaves and just fly around.Sometimes historians have attributed the emergence of the Russian bath Turkish neighborhood.However, while in the Turkish bath and steam is present, there is no brooms used from birth.In general, in any country in the world custom to bathe using a broom is not.Therefore, it is an attribute of a broom Russian pair.

In the Russian hinterland until the 19th century tradition of steam has been closely associated with various pagan rites.For example, the bride and groom soared after the wedding night.And the newlyweds were supposed to take a bath together.Before you visit the church, people are also soared.It was believed that a good hot bath and a broom will be cleared of all sins.And to this day, people in the village go to bathe in a bath more often than it is Saturday night, which is also a kind of tradition.

To properly use the bath, and the rational use of all its curative qualities, it is necessary to harvest time besoms.Doing this will also need to correct in order to get the maximum health benefits.