Body's Response to Cooling and Cold Water Treatment

A hundred of years has passed since doctor Kneippincreases, and while a reverse process the body
from Germany proved to everybody that the coldtemperature goes down.
healthfully influences an organism. Doctor Kneipp wasIn a human organism the basic organ producing heat
ill with the severe form of pneumonia and curedis the musculature. In a warm season a body not
himself by regular bathing in icy water. After theonly produces heat but also "warms up" from outside.
magic healing the doctor devoted all his life toAnd in a cold temperature a body creates far more
development of the system of cold water treatment.heat. Besides the amount of warmth revealed in the
People are using his method until now, surprised thatexternal environment diminishes. When a man gets in
such unpleasant phenomenon as cold can treat manya cold environment, his body starts trembling, his
illnesses so remarkably.muscles contract to decrease the heat emission.
Actually body temperature - is not so constant. WeThe speed of body cooling down depends on a
rarely think about it, but even during a day the bodyhumidity of environment. In water a body cools
temperature changes a few times. A physical activityquicker than simply at cold air. The more humid air is,
of a man also influences the blood-heat. Duringthe more it cools an organism. At the same time
trainings or a hard work the somatic temperatureduring a hot temperature moisture prevents an
usually can be higher for one or even two degrees.organism from cooling down. A sweat evaporates
Furthermore, the clothes a man is dressed ineasier in dry air, and a body cools faster.
influence the body temperature. If you are tooActually, these processes practically do not influence
warmly clad at hot weather, an organism cannot givethe state of internal organs. Their temperature
away the warmth and the somatic temperatureremains permanent and changes only in the case of
increases. Thus, the body temperature depends bothdiseases. A human organism has a mass of
on internal environment and on external conditions.possibilities to adjust both to the heat and to the
A human being can survive a drop of a temperaturecold. Scientists all the time find some new and new
to thirty three degrees, and an increase up to fortymechanisms, allowing a human body to save
one. If a man produces more heat than he can giveconstancy of internal environment regardless of
to an environment, the temperature of his bodyexternal conditions.