Thai Traditional Massage History

Thai Traditional Massage is a precious wisdom which has been longtime preserved. Thai people learned how to give a primary treatment; by massaging, by compressing and by flexing, we believe that the beginning of that massage was that family members helped each other, when someone felt pain, for example, the husband massaged his wife, grandchildren massaged their grandparents. Then, when their skills and confidence had been increased, they commenced to help the neighbors. Finally, now it has become a profession.

Thai meaning of "Massage"

Massage is a treatment by touching the patient with some parts of your body or with some instruments to make five senses of the patient feel better. It can also affect and aid the mental health. Besides, this treatment has no following after effects. It is a primary treatment of humans since they have existed on earth. When man feels sick, he will automatically give himself a treatment, one of these is to touch around the skin where he feels pain, for example, when we've got an headache, we always touch around that zone to relieve the pain. In conclusion, massage is a primary treatment which is safe and always give good results.

Thai Traditional Massage

Advantages: relaxing the exhausted muscles and also the nerves, relieving the pain and the problems concerning the muscles, to be in a normal condition, stimulating the blood circulation. It can treat both physical and mental health. The best time duration of massage is about 2 hours.

Oil Base Massage

Advantages : relaxing the muscles and nerves, especially for all who have problems concerning the bones and for all the patients who have inflammation in their muscles. For them, it's mot appropriated to have a treatment like Thai Traditional. Oil Base Massage is a treatment by compressing to stimulate the blood circulation and to relieve the pain, moreover, the natural oil will moisturize the skin.

Foot Spa Massage

1. stimulating the blood and lymph circulation. It makes every organ and every body parts work together with balance and good efficiency.
2. Escaping from constipation, urinary maladies, headache, kidney illness, scowl, migraine, sinus, stress, etc.
3. Treating mental health
   Moreover, foot spa massage eliminates old skin cells. Before the facial massage, we have the paraffin wax treatment for nourishing the skin, reducing the facial roughness because paraffin is a natural wax of which advantages are to nourish the skin and moisturize the dried or tough skin.

Detoxification Massage

Advantages : detoxing all toxic that still remains inside the body, activating the excretory system and metabolism and eliminate the fat by perspiration and by urine system, also relaxing the muscles.

Detoxification Body Scrub

Advantages : eliminating old skin cells, also toxic out of the body, stimulating and reviving the skin cells to a more clean and healthy state

The advantages of Jacuzzi

1. cleaning and destroying the bacteria more deeply than a normal bath.
2. stimulating the blood circulation.
3. increasing the immune and health of every organ of the body.
4. Making skin more fresh and taking away lines & wrinkles . Turning skin more brighter because of good blood circulation.
5. Loosing weight and fat because power of Jacuzzi will burn fat like you're swimming.
6. Reducing stress, and makes your body and mind more fresh.

Jacuzzi

It is a bath with a power of bubbles and tides which is called "weight water", a whirlpool tide of which the vibration by bubbles work about 10,000 - 15,000 times per seconds. It's a very delicate massage therapy which cleans the body more deeply. The power bubbles give the pressure of 1.5 kg per 1cm2 on the skin so, the patients feel like they are massaged on 320 points on all parts of the body. This is the new connivance which almost all people has never seen or known before.

Body scrub by aroma salt and herbs

Advantages : eliminating and the old skin cells, & making your skin cleaner, fresh, tender and strong.

Tumaline steam

Advantages : eliminating the toxins inside the body by about 90 %. It cleans from inside to outside and also reduces the weight by pure Tumaline and rearranges the body system to the natural balanced state.
Makes your skin more healthy and obviously tight. That is the definition of beauty from inside to outside.

Aromatherapy

The word "Aromatherapy" is composed by 2 words as following;

1. Aroma refers to "smell"
2. Therapy refers to "Treatment"

Thus. Aromatherapy is the usage of smell by the essential oil which is extracted from a part of plants. The natural oil is for reviving, curing and make the balance between body, mind and spirit.

Aroma Massage advantages

1. stimulating the metabolism, burning the energy out.
2. Activating the natural treatment system
3. Relaxing muscles.
4. Stimulating the discharge system which is the result of metabolism.
5. Making blood and lymph circulation more activated.
6. Relaxing the nervous system.
7. Relieving pain.
8. Reducing stress.
9. Increasing the elasticity for the skin.

Aroma inhalation advantages

1. Curing illness concerning the inhalation process.
2. Curing infections in throat.
3. Helping mucus discharging in case of the throat inflammation
4. Reducing stress, plus exhaustion, giving a feeling of peace
5. Makes the mind more calm and in peace.

Note.
Anyone who has problems concerning their bones or has an illness shouldn't take the massage therapy of any kind.

The advantages of facial massage

1. eliminating old skin cells and exposing the new cells which are brighter and free of wrinkles.
2. Stimulating the blood and lymph circulation for nourishing your facial skin, making you look younger and fresh.
3. Reducing the blemishes and making you fresh.
4. Reducing your wrinkles around the eyes and also around your lips.
5. Tightening your facial skin and refreshing your pores eliminating wrinkles and scars.
6. Tightening and brightening, the skin under the eyes.
7. Activating the oil glands.
8. Making your skin more tender and smooth.

Heated medicinal herbs massage

This treatment is when we bring the herbs both fresh and dried to pound and mix together, then put it all in a bag, which is then steamed and is finally used for curing the pain in any part of the body.

Heated Medicinal Herbs Massage Advantages

1. Relives exhaustion.
2. Makes the muscles relax..
3. Increases the elasticity of the muscles.
4. Stimulating blood circulation.
5. Decreases swell, caused by muscles or joints inflammation.(after 24 - 28 hours)
6. Making joints to be in a normal condition.
7. Relieving pain.

Favorite Herbs for Heated Medicinal Massage are as following

Herb General Advantages

1. Zingiber cassumunar roxb (500g) relieves pain, and inflammation.
2. Tumeric (200 g) relieves the skin of inflammation.
3. Rind or skin of laffirlime (100 g) relieves dizziness by its oil
4. lemon grass (200 g) reduces the fishy smell of cooking.
5. leaves of Tamarind (100 g) cleans the skin.
6. leaves of Acacia concinna wild (50 g) covers skin inflammation, nourishes the skin.
7. salt (60 g) reduces the heat of the skin & helps the other medicinal herbs absorb into the skin
8. connomomum Camphora (30 g) cures common colds, helps the inhalation process, cures the heart.

The Methods of Heated Medicinal Herbs Massage

1. Set the patient in an appropriated posture (laying, sitting or sleeping on one's side). It all depends on the part of the body to be treated of that particular patient.
2. Put the bag of which the heat is appropriated for the treatment (checking the heat by putting the bag on inside part of arms. Or palms as well.
3. Do not put the herbal bag on the patient's body for too long a period when the bag is hot because the patient may not stand the heat.
4. When the heat of the herbal bag is low down, bring another steamed herbal bag to continue the treatment, and return the first herbal bag for steaming. Then follow step 2, 3 and 4 again.

WARNINGS!

1. Do not use the herbal bag of which the heat is too high, especially for soft skin or scar zones. If those zones have to be treated, put a little towel there to product the skin before treating.
2. Give more attention to diabetes or paralysis patients, also to children and the old aged persons as their heat reaction maybe slower than for adults. The heat may cause skin pain. It would be better if the massage therapist uses the herbal bag of which the heat level is less than normal.
3. In case of the wound zones ( pain, swell, inflammation, getting red) which has just occurred. ( not over 24 hours), do not take any treatments because the wound will or maybe become more severe.
4. Do not take a bath immediately after terminating the treatment because the medicinal herbs are not absorbed. Into the skin yet, and because the body's temperature should not be changed (from high to low in the short time.) (It may cause an illness.)