Here you find our articles about Herbal Medicine applications around the world, typically part of a multitude of traditional medicine practices.
Plain herbal baths, not to be confused with herbal steam baths, have been used in Asia for centuries. Typically, a herbal bath is taken warm, that is, with a water temperature between 38℃ and 40℃. [ Read more … ]
Herbal Steam Baths are a rather common form of treatment across Asia, offered in spas, salons, parlors, Buddhist temples, and saunas, but also by individual local healers and practitioners. Generally, steam baths and other herbal [ Read more … ]
Traditional Herbal Sitz Baths — also written together as Sitzbaths — are used around the world for a broad variety of health issues, both in the preventive and curative sphere. Sitzbaths can be taken by [ Read more … ]
Self-Care and Self-Healing practices in Asia, both in the past as in the present day, include a wide range of modalities such as herbal treatments, diets, Self-Massage, Yogic bodywork, meditation, and religious, cultural and spiritual [ Read more … ]
Sanfutie (Sanfu Tie or San Fu Tie) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment that involves placing small and square medicated herbal patches (plasters or bandages) on various places on the back and neck. The [ Read more … ]
Self-Care is from all times and spans physical, emotional, mental, hygienic, aesthetic, energetic, sexual and spiritual aspects of man. Self-Care is about illness prevention, health maintenance and appearance, restoration and healing. Traditionally, through thousands of [ Read more … ]
Oil Massage and Aromatherapy are often mentioned in one breath, and are regularly offered as a combined service in Spa and Wellness centers or in Massage Therapy establishments, and such. Nevertheless, oil massages and aromatherapy [ Read more … ]
The use of herbs to prevent diseases, maintain health and treat illnesses is an ancient tradition, of all civilizations, may the latter be from Oceania, Africa, Europe, the Americas, or Asia. Naturally, the use of [ Read more … ]
Herbal Medicine applications in Abdominal Massage are of great importance. It’s perhaps best to divide the various applications in the following categories: herbal compresses, herbal packs, herbal oils, and herbal pastes. The types of herbs [ Read more … ]
Castor Oil is a vegetable oil made from castor beans, which has been used throughout the centuries in traditional medicine applications. The so-called “castor beans” are actually the seeds of the Ricinus Communis plant, an [ Read more … ]