No 4 (24): 30–35.

Political Science and Regional Studies

 2021

Scientific article

UDK 348.011.3
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Olga Kyalviyainen
bachelor degree, Petrozavodsk State University
(Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation),
kyalviyajnen@gmail.com

The use of a bath birch broom in folk medicine by the inhabitants of Karelia (on the example of the Salmi settlement)

Scientific adviser:
Antonova Regina Fominichna
Paper submitted on: 12/02/2021;
Accepted on: 12/04/2021;
Published online on: 12/23/2021.
 Abstract. The article is of a high regional significance because many people in Karelia nowadays buy and make their own birch brooms, as it is believed that they are the most effective way to combat colds. The paper considers the role of the birch bath broom as an important component of traditional folk medicine of Karelia on the example of several settlements of the Republic. In addition, the features of traditional and modern use of the birch bath broom in this territory are compared in the paper. On the basis of the experiment, which reveals the preservation of phytoncidal properties in cut birch branches, the partial validity of a bath birch broom as a traditional preventive means of folk medicine is proved. Part of the study is devoted to the geographical location of the studied territories within the European North of Russia as one of the factors determining the features of environmental management in this area. The article highlights that continuite of the nature management and folk medicine traditions among the Finno-Ugric peoples in connection with the peculiarities of their resettlement along the territory of the East European Plain.
Keywords: folk medicine, bathhouse, birch broom, traditions, Republic of Karelia, prevention, phytoncides, birch

For citation: Kyalviyainen, O. The use of a bath birch broom in folk medicine by the inhabitants of Karelia (on the example of the Salmi settlement). StudArctic forum. 2021, 4 (24): 30–35.

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