[Use of the sauna in the complex health resort treatment of patients with nonspecific bronchopulmonary diseases].

The use of therapeutic hyperthermia in sauna as part of multimodality therapy of 107 patients with asthma and chronic bronchitis resulted in a rapid time course of clinical symptoms of diseases, reduced the adaptation period at a health resort, produced a bronchodilatatory effect and helped to return cardiodynamics to normal permitting one to make use of sauna as a pathogenetic therapeutic method for patients with the obstructive syndrome in bronchopulmonary diseases.