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Wikipedia: Dousing
Encyclopedia overview of cold-water dousing and related traditions (misogi, cooling after banya, ending showers with cold water)—cultural and practice context, not a substitute for controlled trials.
Scope
Covers pouring cold water over the body and notes that subjective intensity is often described as greater than a short cold shower; explicitly mentions ending a shower with cold water as a long-standing habit in some naturopathic-style lineages.
Evidence boundary
Use as tertiary orientation next to mechanistic articles (BAT, cryotherapy disambiguation) and the Buijze pragmatic shower RCT on this wiki. Physiological claims in the article are not uniformly anchored to high-quality clinical sources.
Outcomes
- stress-responseTertiary narrative on cold-water shock framing and cultural practice—not quantitative clinical outcome evidence.