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Hay Baths in Italy
Hay baths are an experience not to be missed, which ROIS TRAVELS offers you to enrich your holiday in Italy.
Hay baths are a practice born in the northern Italy, in the Tyrol. The herbs, which make up the hay, must be moist and able to ferment. Thus, they have a positive effect on the organism. The hay, which is fermenting, reaches temperatures above 60 degrees.
In Italy, the herbs used in hay baths and capable of giving therapeutic effects to this practice are milfoil, pulsatilla, ranunculaceae, rampion, sloe, alchimilla and gentian. Other plants widely used are valerian, horsetail, sage, St. John's wort, mint, thyme, mallow, arnica, mountain chamomile, yarrow, veronica, scorzonera, clover, plantain, pilosella, primrose, arnica, bilberry and taraxacum, which have large draining property.
The herbs that grow naturally in the mountains are collected and placed in large basins to ferment for several days. When the herbs are ready, you can dip in. You have the bath naked for about 15 - 20 minutes the first time and 30 minutes the following sessions.
This healing technique is also known under the name of "phyto bath therapy". Hay baths have the capacity to combat rheumatism, arthritis, "back strain", insomnia, digestive problems and conditions of both physical and mental tiredness. Baths with herbs strengthen the immune system, stimulate the vascularization, relax, detoxify and purify.
The Fragrances of Hay Baths
The hay is able to give you pleasure. Who has never tried hay baths underestimates the uplifting effect of his fragrances, aromas and smells. The smell of the herbs reaches an intensity you had never experienced before. One is plunged into a universe of flavors and essences, which are the most natural that exist: pure Italy herb meadows. They have no alteration and no industrial or chemical addition. They only are high mountain plants, which release their pleasant aroma for humidity and fermentation influence.
Hay baths give pleasure both in the intense sweating they cause - quite naturally - and in the smell universe. The nose savors the aromas of plants, like chamomile or thyme. It derives from them a satisfaction that few other experiences can cause. If in a wine, an intense aroma is a merit, in hay baths the smell leads to positive thoughts, which relaxes the body by putting it in contact with the distilled essence of plants.
The experience of hay baths is very intense, especially for the great heat produced by the herbs fermentation. It is possible lose weight during each bath because the sweating is abundant. While you are immersed in hay baths, the temperature increases more than you can imagine. Especially, if it is the first time that you try this intense experience. Hay baths favour a sense of physical wellness due to the sense of relaxation, caused by heavy sweating. Perspiration, which persists even after the application, promotes the release of the hay active ingredients, which are gradually absorbed by your body. After the hay baths you should have a one-hour rest on a bed, covered in a way that only the head remains free. The ideal conclusion for the baths is a shower and a hearty rehydration based on liquids, for example fruit juice.
Hay Baths Benefits and Therapeutic Indications
Today it is possible to practice in Italy real hay baths. They are effective in the cure of many diseases osteoarticulares. Baths in the hay can be a valuable support in slimming, stress-free and detoxicating treatments.
In Italy, meadow herbs are often used to combat bones pain. Against rheumatism, there is nothing better than to jump on a bed of herbs to warm the body and cause copious sweating.
Hay benefits are ideally suited to improve certain imperfections, like for example
cellulite, adiposity and lymphatic stagnation that, with few treatments, are considerably reduced. In Italy, we use hay baths in the event of problems with impure skin or acne, to relieve muscular tension because of the wonderful general relaxation they produce, restoring tone and vitality to the whole organism.
Hay baths give a sense of physical wellness due to a sense of relaxation, caused by intense heat and hydrosaline loss induced by sweating. The skin becomes tonic for the stimulation of peripheral circulation and smooth for the purification due to the intense sweating and the absorption of herbs active ingredients.
Hay baths are indicated for muscle-skeletal system pathologies and are capable of inducing purifying and dermatology effects. The hay bath high temperature opens pores allowing the principles to act in the best possible way. The baths stimulate the connective tissue and the vegetative nervous system, purify and detoxify. A hay bath stimulates circulation and helps in the event of rheumatism, gout, ischialgia, tension and muscle contractions, herniated disc and neuralgia. Hay baths can have beneficial effects for arthritis, inflammatory forms articular due to fractures, muscle spasms and contractures, articular rigidity and rheumatisms.
The patient is wrapped in a towel and immersed in the hay for a period of 15 minutes in the first session and 30 minutes in the last treatments. The hay reaches a surface temperature of 40 °C, up to 70 °C in the deeper layers. In this way, the patient undergoes an excessive sweating, freeing the skin from impurities and enjoying the beneficial essences spread by the plants of which the hay is made (thyme, gentian, valerian, etc.). After each treatment, the patient is wrapped in warm blankets and left to rest until he/she returns to its natural temperature.
Taking hay baths means to allow plants to improve your wellness. Yarrow, pulsatilla, buttercups, rampion, alchemist and gentian, valerian, horsetail, sage, St. John's wort, mint, thyme, mallow, arnica, mountain chamomile, milfoil, veronica, scorzonera, clover, plantain, pilosella, primrose, arnica, bilberry and taraxacum are made available to you, within the reach of their nostrils. Italian fragrances will leave you a wonderful memory – even olfactory - of your stay.
Hay baths are an experience not to be missed that ROIS TRAVELS can offer you for your holidays in Italy. Contact us.
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