Sweat bath
A sweat , formerly weld (medium high German sweizbat ), a bath obtained by hot air, steam (as steam strong) water or sweating is to effect.
Johann Christoph Adelung's grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect defined a sweat bath as a
“A bath, as one cleanses the body's juices by sweating, and the place that is comfortably furnished for it; the weld pool. "
In so-called sweating cures, especially for colds or rheumatic diseases, sweat-inducing agents (diaphoretic agents ), for example in the form of medicinal teas, are used. Other methods of sweating cures are, in addition to heat supply, heat accumulation and diathermy .
Places where sweat baths are carried out include bathhouses and thermal baths such as saunas , thermal baths , banya (Russian bath), hammam (Turkish bath), sento (Japanese bath), sudatoria and Indian sweat lodges .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 177.
- ↑ Duden online , accessed on September 19, 2010.
- ↑ here online at zeno.org
- ↑ Volker Fintelmann , Rudolf Fritz Weiss : Textbook of Phytotherapy. Hippokrates, Stuttgart 2005 p. 235. online here
- ↑ Hyperhidrosis: Physiological and pathological sweating in diagnosis and therapy by Reinhard K. Achenbach von Steinkopff, 2004 p. 48. here online