For Steam-bath, the Nature-cure homes have a small wooden cabin to accommodate a chair inside, where to seat the patient and then close it. It has a hole at the top, to keep the head out of it, but covered with a wet towel.
The cabin is airtight. Even around the neck, a cloth is wound to let no steam escape from the cabin from the sides of the neck. The patient has no clothes on, except an underwear. The steam is put on and enters the cabin through a tube.
The bath is meant for only seven minutes, except for shorter period if it is unbearable, when the tube is disconnected. After the due time, the patient comes out, his sweat wiped off and is taken to have a shower bath.
AT HOME: A steam-bath can be taken at home also. A person with only an underwear on, is made to lie on a plain cot (a charpoy) woven with sufficient spaces to admit steam from under it.
Cover the patient with one or two blankets, so that they cover him and the cot completely, the ends of the blanket falling loosely on the ground to make it an airtight-chamber like.
The room should be entirely closed. Only the head of the patient should be out of the covered bed, which should have a wet towel placed on it. It is advisable to have a glass of water before the bath.
Bring a kettle full of steam, boiling water. Place it under the bed, slowly and slightly removing the lid. If need be, another kettle may also be used to augment the supply of steam under the bed.
After seven or ten minutes at the most, the patient should be taken out, his sweat wiped off and then given a cold shower bath.
In Europe and on sea-side one finds provisions of steam-bath chambers. After a complete steam-bath, people come out and jump straight into the sea for a cold bath.