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Banya broom- (English broom; Spanish escoba) - a bundle of connected branches of plants used in bathing.

It is used for bath massage (broom massage), aromatization of air, spraying the heater with water, steam injection, and other actions.

Raw materials for bath brooms

A broom can be made from branches of almost all trees and shrubs that are flexible enough, do not have thorns and do not emit sticky or harmful substances, the most common: birch, oak, nettle , alder, coniferous. Also, many other plants, herbs and their combinations are used to make brooms.

In folk medicine

Various medical properties are attributed to various brooms:

• Birch a broom helps with pain, aching muscles and joints after exercise and physical exertion, cleanses the skin well with a tendency to rashes and pustules, accelerates the healing of wounds and abrasions, has a calming effect, improves mood. Its special advantage is a strong expansion in the coronary pair of small bronchi. This contributes to the discharge of sputum and improves ventilation of the lungs. Indispensable for asthmatics, smokers with experience. Birch leaves contain essential oils, tannins, vitamin C, provitamin A. After the parka, the skin will be smooth, elastic, and of a pleasant color. The infusion of a broom at the end of the bath is good for the scalp: it strengthens the hair and destroys dandruff.
• Oak broom is more suitable for people with oily skin. It makes it matte and elastic, has a strong anti-inflammatory effect. The aroma of oak prevents an excessive increase in blood pressure in the steam room. Oak leaves contain a large amount of tannins. Oak decoction is used as a remedy for certain skin diseases, with sweating of the feet. Calms the nervous system after intense physical and mental activities.
• Lime broom perfectly eliminates headaches, has a diuretic effect with a mild effect on the kidneys, accelerates sweating, has a calming, wound healing, bronchodilatory, antipyretic effect.
• Alder broom is used for colds, aching joints and muscles.
• fir a broom is used in winter in Siberia, and juniper- in Central Asia. Resinous substances of plants irritate the skin, stimulate perspiration, increase blood circulation deep in the muscles and - reflexively - even in the internal organs. Such a broom is good for a kind of massage. For example, with pain in the spine, neuralgia, sciatica. It perfectly disinfects the air and prevents respiratory diseases.
• Coniferous broom should be steamed for 10 minutes in boiling water. As soon as it becomes soft, you can start steaming. It is useful to add one or two coniferous branches to a birch or oak broom. The infusion of such a broom can be used both for watering stones and for washing.

Fir, spruce and juniper brooms cannot be harvested for future use. After drying, the needles crumble. Use fresh!

• Eucalyptus broom - more often used in the Caucasus. Eucalyptus leaves contain from 1 to 3 percent essential oil, which is associated with its medicinal properties. It is especially good for a runny nose, sore throat. In the steam room, they press it to the face and breathe through the nose for 4-5 minutes. But it also has disadvantages: the branches of the eucalyptus broom are too thin, flexible, and the leaves are long. They are difficult to "manage" during fastening.
• Morning brooms of leaves mountain ash and herbs tansy enhance the processes of excitation in the nervous system - eliminate the relaxing effect of the bath procedure, prepare the body well for work and therefore are successfully used in the morning.
• Nettle a broom is used for aches and pains in the joints, muscles or lower back after physical exertion. It has a powerful local irritating, distracting, anti-inflammatory effect. Nettle broom is a good remedy for the treatment of sciatica, rheumatism, gout. With its regular use, blood pressure decreases, nervous tension is relieved. However, with a strong whipping, it quickly frays and becomes unusable. Such a broom is lowered into hot water for only a few seconds. They steam only after warming up the body, with light strokes. Nettle is a remedy for rehabilitation after fractures, sprains, bruises, hematomas, etc., due to its burning properties, provokes massage of sore spots.

• Good brooms from maple, walnut, ash, elm. A very pleasant broom of young shoots cherries cut at the beginning of summer. Such a broom is soft, has a good cherry aroma. You can add bunches of medicinal, fragrant and any herbs to brooms. In summer, whole herbal brooms are used, including for rubbing. In season, brooms, of course, are best used fresh - these are the ones that contain a lot of essential oils and phytoncides.
• Combined brooms- a bunch of branches of different trees, shrubs, herbs. They are made to combine different qualities or give new ones - fragrant compositions, organoleptic properties.

Preparation of brooms

According to popular custom, birch brooms are harvested after Holy Trinity Day, which happens on the 50th day after Easter. It usually falls in early to mid-June. In some regions of Russia, at this time, the birch may not bloom, while in others the catkins may be thrown away. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the stage of maturation of plants, when the leaf is the strongest, a sign of the appearance of the first catkins, but at the same time take branches from a birch without catkins. Brooms should be harvested on a dry day. Brooms are broken in the first half of the day, after the dew has disappeared.

Weeping birch is suitable for a broom. As a rule, this is a tall tree. The branches of such a tree are very flexible and unbreakable, long hairy for a steam room. Young birches are well suited, they have never bloomed, it is believed that they have the most tender leaf. The upper side of the leaf should not be rough, the leaf should be tender, velvety. And the branches are thin and straight.

At first, the branches are tied loosely. Hang on poles or a stretched rope under a canopy, so that direct sunlight does not fall, where there is a good draft. After 6-7 days, when the brooms dry well, they are tightly tied and tightly laid on racks in a dry dressing room, shed or other dry and well-ventilated room.

Best of all, when brooms take the form of a fan, and not a broom. To do this, fresh brooms are laid out on the floor and turned over every day until they dry. The main thing is not to overdry.

Studies have shown that it is in compliance with all the centuries-old traditions of collecting medicinal plants (this also applies to birch brooms) that active medicinal substances are preserved in the material in the optimal quantity and quality. If you tie a broom of fresh branches tightly, then in the center of its leaves will lose color, darken, and such a broom will have almost no smell, since the leaves will “burn”.

Finished brooms after drying should have all the leaves of a concentrated matte green color, and the broom itself should smell like balsamic birch oil. This smell sharply intensifies after steaming the broom. The collection of brooms at the beginning of summer is fully justified, because the leaves of the birch have already become large, but they still have enough essential oil glands, which are many not only in the leaves, but also on the young shoots of the birch. Large young shoots are very elastic, so it is pleasant to whip the body in the steam room with such a broom.

Brooms begin to be harvested when the branches are young and the leaves on the branches are young and strong. In such leaves, the highest content of medicinal substances for the human body. In Russia, the most suitable time for harvesting brooms is mid-June - July. At this time, the birch leaf is gaining the greatest strength.

Knit a broom should be as follows. First, the branches are cleaned of leaves and knots in the place where the handle will be. Then the desired number of branches is wrapped with twine, squeezing the branches with your left hand. It is important to lay thicker branches inward, and around them - thinner ones, bending inward. The broom will turn out dense - it will be enough for several baths.

It is good to store brooms in a haystack. You can store the harvested branches in the dark in winter and in the form of one sheaf, as needed, tying them into a broom. In both cases, the leaves are preserved better.

• oak brooms cut in June - August in a damp, darkened forest. Drying and knitting of a broom is the same as that of a birch broom.

Massage with a broom

If the broom is fresh, they are steamed immediately, without steaming, otherwise it will become sour.

A dry broom should first be dipped in cold water for 10-20 minutes, and then in hot water for 1-3 minutes.

A very dry broom needs to be steamed longer - pour boiling water into the basin, lower the broom into it and close it with another basin on top. Dip in a basin of hot water and for 1-3 seconds, swirling and shaking. Repeat this procedure 2-3 times, and after 1-2 minutes the broom will be ready.

Notes

What are the bath brooms - popular tree species.

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Books

• Broom, cat and gingerbread, Lomashkevich Laya. Dear Guys! Make friends with Venik and his friends by reading Laya Lomashkevich's Christmas story, and boldly take on the production of a play without complicated costumes and scenery. Fun and easy...
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Who is who in the world of discoveries and inventions Sitnikov Vitaly Pavlovich

Who invented the broom and broom?

Who invented the broom and broom?

A broom and a brush are somewhat similar to each other. Of course, the broom is only used for sweeping. Many brushes are also used for this purpose, although they were invented many thousands of years before the broom.

The caveman used brushes made from bundles of animal hair tied to the end of a stick. A kitchen whisk was a bundle of branches, reeds or wood bast tied to a long handle. In colonial times in America, just such brooms were used. And in many countries of today's Europe one can see how streets and floors in houses are swept with such brooms.

The broom known to us today is made of millet stalks. It was first made in America. Either true or not, but there is a legend about its origin. According to legend, a friend of Benjamin Franklin sent one of the clothes brushes made in that country from India. The brush was very similar to a small whisk. Several grains got stuck in the brush, and Franklin planted them in the ground. They took over, and within a few years the crop had spread throughout America.

One day, an old bachelor from Hadley, Massachusetts, needed a new broom. He cut millet stalks, tied them together, and swept the floors in his house. After that, he never used a birch broom again. He began to make these panicles and sold them to his neighbors. When he died in 1843, broom making was already an important industry. Until now, the main work in the manufacture of panicles is done manually.