Bathing in the bathhouse and about bathhouses

As for the people whose regime we are talking about, there is no need for them to bathe in a bath to eliminate excesses in the body, because their body is clean of these excesses. The bath is needed for those who want to benefit from it, which consists of light warmth and moderate moisture. To do this, they should not stay in the bathhouse for a long time, but only take a bath, and it should be taken until the skin continues to redden and swell; The bath should be left as soon as the redness begins to disappear.

You must first humidify the air around you by spraying fresh water, then quickly wash your face and leave. Anyone doing physical exercise should not rush to the bathhouse until he is completely rested. As for the features of the bathhouse and its rules, we have explained this and talked about them elsewhere. Here we want to say that everyone who washes in the bathhouse

should enter its premises gradually, not stand in a hot room for so long until they feel sick; then they will experience a pleasant feeling from the dissolution of excess in the body and from the fact that the body gains the ability to take food. At the same time, they protect themselves from relaxation and from the strongest cause of putrefactive fevers.

Anyone who wants to gain weight should go to the bathhouse after eating, unless he is inclined to form blockages. To protect against blockages in case of hot nature, you need to consume shikanjubin, and in case of cold nature, you need to consume fudanji and falafili.

And anyone who wants to dissolve excesses and lose weight must go to the bathhouse hungry and sit in it for a long time. Anyone who pursues only the goal of maintaining health should go to the bathhouse after digesting what is in his stomach and liver. If he is afraid of arousal of bile, he should eat something light on an empty stomach before bathing. A person with a hot nature and a lot of bile should not do without such a snack. Such a person is prohibited from entering the steam room. It is best to have a snack before the bath with bread soaked in fruit or rose water.

After leaving the bathhouse or in the bathhouse itself, you should refrain from drinking cold drinks, because at this time the body's orifices are open, and the cold will immediately rush to the substance of the dominant organs and break their strength. You must also beware of too hot things, especially hot water, because drinking it is dangerous, since it quickly penetrates to the main organs and causes consumption and thinness.

You should be careful not to leave the bathhouse immediately, expose your head, or let your body cool down, and you should leave the bathhouse in winter wrapped in clothes. A patient with a fever should beware of the bath when he has an attack, or when he has a discontinuity or swelling.

You already understood from the previous one that the bath can be warming, cooling, moisturizing, drying, beneficial and harmful. Its benefits include inducing sleep, opening pores, adding shine to the body, dissolving excess, promoting the maturation of thick substances by liquefying them, and attracting nutrients to the outer surface of the body. It helps in dissolving what needs to be dissolved, in shaking out naturally what needs to be shaken out, in stopping diarrhea and in eliminating fatigue.

The harm from the bath is expressed in the weakening of the heart if you stay in it for a long time, in the onset of fainting and nausea, in the movement of motionless bad juices, in inclination of them to decay and in their direction in this form in the cavity and to weak organs, as a result of which tumors are formed on the external and internal parts of organs.