Every day it gets cooler in the yard, which means it's time to heat up the bath. After all, puffing up the bones that have been chilled for a long working week and driving out fatigue and colds is very pleasant and useful. About how to prepare brooms for a bath, we will talk further.
The first, with which you should start talking about the main assistants of the bathhouse attendant - where to collect raw materials for their manufacture. Which places do not exactly fit us? Of course, the roadside roads, dusty city streets and squares, places of accumulation of debris and dirt. The broom should be designed to expel toxins from the body. In no case should it be saturated with them. Therefore, before preparing brooms for a bath, it is necessary to carry out reconnaissance in the surrounding forests, find a good forest edge or a grove of those trees from which our future "bouquets" will be made.
What plants are used to make bath brooms? The most popular tree, of course, is the birch. The best brooms are obtained from curly and weeping birch, and old-timers say that the best branches are given by the birch tree that grows near the water. Another popular species is oak, it will help to normalize the pressure, heal skin diseases and restore lost strength. Deservedly popular are also disposable brooms from nettles, wormwood. They are good for rheumatism. And such unusual plants as juniper, eucalyptus and coniferous species of trees can be weaved into ordinary deciduous trees, their spices full of essential oils will bring considerable benefit to the body.
And now we will choose the optimal time for the preparation of brooms for a bath. It is believed that birch, maple, coniferous branches gain the greatest strength in May, when everything blooms. Then it is worth cutting off 1-2 branches from each tree, better than those that are located closer to the ground. In May, you should stock up on the stems of the young nettle. Procurement of oak brooms for a bath takes place in autumn, in September, with the best branches in those trees, under which burdocks grow. A spruce, eucalyptus and juniper can be done at any time of the year.
So, the place is found, the raw materials are collected, now we will find out how to prepare the brooms for the bath correctly. Collected twigs should be dried for a couple of days in a dry, ventilated place. Then they need to be made one length, usually from 40 to 60 centimeters, depending on the growth of the steamer. The lower part of the branches should be peeled off the leaves to form a broom handle. It should not be too thick, because you will keep it in your mitten. In the middle of the broom, the twigs are thicker, and on the edges are used thinner branches, so it will not be too hard. Bind the broom with hemp or cotton rope, periodically check to see if the bandage has loosened and, if necessary, to bandage.
Well, the last step in how to prepare brooms for a bath, will be their storage. It is best to hang them dry, tied in two pieces, on a crossbar under a canopy or in an attic. You can use a balcony for these purposes, if it does not get direct sunlight during the day, because the sun brooms are harmful. When they dry, you can stack them on top of each other with a pile. You can also freeze the brooms if you have a suitable freezer. Such brooms will retain their aroma, they will not require preliminary steaming before the bath. Dare, stock up branches of suitable trees, prepare for the winter. Enjoy Your Bath!