Here you find our articles about Herbal Medicine applications around the world, typically part of a multitude of traditional medicine practices.
Chai-Yok (Chaiyok) is a traditional Korean vaginal steaming treatment that involves a woman sitting on an open-seated stool with steam rising from a boiling pot or bowl which contains a variety of heated healing herbs [ Read more … ]
Hilot is a popular and much used traditional healing system in the Philippines but its origins are rather unclear, although it’s assumed to have originated from both Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic traditional medicine. It’s practiced [ Read more … ]
One of the traditional postpartum treatments in India is the Ayurvedic Avagaha Sitz Bath, where Avagaha translates as dipping or immersion and Sweda as sudation, sweating or steaming. The woman sits or lies in a [ Read more … ]
The Malay people consider the reproductive system the elemental life force of the human body and treat it with special care. One of the traditional Malay treatments for women is the so-called Rendam-Rendam herbal treatment [ Read more … ]
Jamu Postnatal Massage is a traditional postpartum Malay-Indonesian massage and herbal treatment modality supposedly originating in Java in the 17th century, and is primarily about restoring a mother’s body after pregnancy and labor. Additionally, Jamu [ Read more … ]
At the start of 2019, the legalization of Medical Marijuana in Thailand was a fact. Of course, now, a lot is in motion: where to plant, who will or can plant or cultivate, who is [ Read more … ]
Thai herbal steams, herbal saunas, herbal baths and herbal soaks are a rather common form of treatment in Thailand applied in Thai spas, salons, massage parlors, Buddhist temples, and saunas, but certainly also by individual [ Read more … ]
I don’t think it has slipped your attention — in December 2018, Thailand’s government has legalized Cannabis (Marijuana) for medicinal purposes. That may come as a complete surprise for a country in Southeast Asia, which [ Read more … ]
Chiang Mai, located in the North of Thailand, is the international hot-spot for Thai Massage training and treatments and other exotic complementary or traditional healing arts. It’s also an important center of herbal knowledge and [ Read more … ]
In Thailand, Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) is defined by law as “the medical processes dealing with the examination, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, or prevention of diseases, or promotion and rehabilitation of the health of humans or [ Read more … ]