Most recreational baths believe that the best brooms - birch brooms. Why were they like? Birch broom is very durable, flexible and comfortable. Birch leaf surface - porous and rough, making it a good contact with the skin and absorbs sweat-catching. To do this, birch brooms should be well dried and properly soaked and zaparivat. Cleaning properties birch broom is much higher than that of oak or eucalyptus leaves are denser and less porous.
Russia has long been favored by birch twigs, appreciating their healing properties. In the leaves of birch discovered vitamin C, an essential oil, resin, flavonoids, tannins and carotene. Birch is a diuretic, cholagogue, diaphoretic, disinfectant and antiseptic. Infusion of birch buds helps in chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as blood-purifying agent for skin diseases and edema associated with congestive heart and kidney failure. Fresh birch sap has tonic, antiscorbutic and diuretic properties, and helps with respiratory diseases, kidney stones, gout, rheumatism. So birch twigs - a real storehouse of nutrients.
Birch twigs are harvested usually from birch trees of two types - a weeping birch and birch curly. The branches and leaves of curly birch well preserved, they are thick and have the flexibility under the influence of a pair do not get slippery. In the steam bath of a weeping birch twigs are particularly flexible. So very convenient broom soared because it is lightweight and flexible. To birch twigs were particularly flexible better their harvest with birch, which grows near water. Usually made of birch twigs young birch - it softer sheet, and the surface of the sheet slightly velvety to the touch.
After the parks in the bath with birch twigs surprisingly easy to breathe. In Russia, at all times, birch twigs are the most favorite and common due to its availability.
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