Bodybuilding and strengthening cold water bath
Cold water bath means bathing with cold water between 10 ~ 20℃, which can promote skin metabolism and enhance skin nutrition. People who insist on cold water bath for a long time have tender, ruddy and elastic skin, showing the beauty of health.
In cold water bath, blood vessels will push a lot of blood into visceral vessels, and after a pause, skin vessels will expand again, and a lot of blood will flow from visceral vessels to the body surface, thus improving the endurance and elasticity of blood vessels and helping to prevent arteriosclerosis. In addition, cold water bath can also enhance the functions of respiratory organs and digestive organs, and play a positive role in preventing diseases such as upper respiratory tract infection, rheumatism and arthritis.
Sedative and antipruritic hot bath
The temperature of hot water bath is between 38℃ and 40℃, which can cause vasodilation, promote blood circulation, relieve muscle spasm and have sedative effect. Insomniacs take a hot bath before going to bed, which is helpful to sleep and can also reduce skin itching. Hot water bath can remove dirt from skin, make pores and sweat glands unobstructed, and improve skin metabolism and disease resistance.
The experiment showed that the bacteria on clean skin and dirty skin died after 10 minutes, but the bacteria on dirty skin still existed. In medical treatment, hot water bath can be used to treat chronic diseases such as chronic arthritis and fracture healing.
Warm water bath for strengthening lung and healing wounds
Warm water bath is a kind of bath between cold water bath and hot water bath, and the water temperature is about 34℃. The temperature of a normal person is 36. Between 5℃ and 37℃, the skin temperature is between 32℃ and 33℃. Warm water at 34℃ is slightly higher than skin temperature, but lower than body temperature. It will be slightly warm when touched by hand. After soaking in it, the body temperature will not change, nor will it feel cold or hot.
If you want to have the effect of hydrotherapy, but don't want to be as big as a hot and cold bath, you can choose warm water therapy. For example, patients with poor cardiopulmonary function and scalded patients should choose warm water bath.
Alternating hot and cold baths strengthen the body.
The alternating hot and cold bath begins with a hot water bath, the temperature of hot water is about 38℃ ~ 44℃, and the washing time is about 4 ~ 6 minutes. Then take a cold shower, the warm water of cold water is between 10 ~ 16℃ for about 1 ~ 2 minutes, and finally take a hot bath.