Imagine yourself in a jasmine scented world immersed in a bath filled with rose petals and sweet scented oil or gentle hands massaging your body with therapeutic oils while soothing music create an aura of perfect bliss…
An aura of tranquility embraces you as you enter the precincts
of an Ayurveda health center. The sweet aroma of freshly brewed herbal tea
sooth your senses as you take a sip to calm your nerves and prepare for the
holistic experience…. The natural way.
The in-house Ayurveda doctor feels your pulse and indentifies
the treatment best suited to you. You are also advised on how to maintain your
health and beauty. You are cleansed, exfoliated, massaged and wrapped in a rich
herbal paste of flowers, bark and leaves and rested, for juices to seep into
your body and enrich you soul.
The history of Ayurveda goes back as far as 1500 B.C. with
the arrival of a branch of Indo-Europeans in India. Here they developed a great
culture rich in many aspects. The religious ideas and philosophical thinking of
these people are found in their holy texts- the Vedas. Namely the Rigveda, the
Yajurvesa, the Samaveda and the Arthavaveda. These texts are replete with data
pertaining to botany and zoology and these ideas gradually gave rise to their
medical science later famous as the Ayurveda. Ayurveda means the science of longevity.
Almost all prescriptions used in treatment are produced by
raw materials found naturally and no artificial substances are used. These
would come from roots, stems, barks, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits & nuts of
many a plant. From animals: milk, honey, pearls, musk, shells and from earth:
iron, silver & copper are used. Ayurvedic drugs do not harm the organs of
the body and do not give any side effects.
Ayurveda or indigenous medicine as practiced in Sri Lanka
and India has drawn the interest of the west quite sometime. A tourist is initiated
this great form of medication through Ayurvedic health centers, health spa’s
and wellness centers while on tour in our island. Most of the treatments
practiced in these centers are based on Ayurveda and in some centers Japanese,
Chinese, Thai and Balinese methods of therapy as well as Aromatherapy are used.
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