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282: 36: 278:, a sauna-like bath. Some douse with a bucket of cold water. The bucket is filled with water and left out overnight. They then walk with it outside and spill it over themselves. Preferences include being barefoot outside on the earth, and performing dousing at certain times and more frequently when ill. 281: 246:
priests in training practice a ritual of 100 days of fasting, meditation and walking which ends with stripping to loincloths and dousing with ice cold water.
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is the practice of making something or someone wet by throwing liquid over them, e.g., by pouring water, generally cold, over oneself. A related practice is
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Some follow cold water dousing with air-drying outside or in wintertime taking a "snow bath" by rubbing handfuls of snow on the body or lying/moving in it.
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is a popular festival in April which includes dousing using water. It is also celebrated by the
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tradition. There are those who believe that this fever is helpful in killing harmful
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The effects of dousing are usually more intense and longer-lasting than just a cold
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practices, include dousing. This is seen, for example, with some
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Cold water dousing is used to "shock" the body into a kind of
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and leaving the hardier beneficial bacteria in the body.
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