Irish Steam Bath

The Irish steam bath consists of several wet-hot-air spaces and is similar to the former Roman baths. The first room you enter, has an air temperature of about 30° C. The patient is treated in this space with brush massage, so that the heating and circulation in the skin is increased. In the next room, there is a temperature of about 50° C. So is sweating, began slightly already in the previous room, further increased. Then the patient is allowed to cool, for example, in a plunge pool. After a rest phase of the patient enters again the first two spaces and then the Irish steam bath. This space is densely filled with steam, but it is not as hot as an ordinary sauna.