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Home » Thai massage » Thai massage an ancient healing method (video)
Thai massage an ancient healing method (video)
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Tags: Medicine, Massage school, Naturopathy, Nuat phaen boran, Video
Traditional Thai Massage at Wat Pho (Buddhist temple)
The Traditional Thai massage or nuat phaen boran (นวดแผนโบราณ), is one of the world's oldest healing practices and characterizes the holistic approach. In a holistic model, people are seen as a whole, in which physical, psychological, social and spiritual facets are inextricably linked and mutually influence each other.
The Thai saw illness as an imbalance in the body or mind and they sought help in the local temple. They were treated with the four elements of traditional medicine: spiritual support, nutrition, herbs and massage.
Thai massage is therefore more than 2.500 years old and originates from India. The monks took it to Thailand at the time.
King Rama III ordered the knowledge of massage to be recorded in stone in 1832. These friezes can still be admired today in the famous Wat Pho temple in Bangkok.
As fond as I am of the firm Traditional Thai massage, I have undergone this many times in Thailand daily and in the Netherlands 1 or 2x a month. But despite the fact that some of the masseuses actually learned this at the Wat Pho including all the official diplomas (of course the English version framed next to the Thai version) on the wall of which they are rightly very proud, I can't say one yet find "official version". All of them really have a variation. No problem, as long as they start at the feet and end with the claps on the back, but I am very curious if there is a good book in Dutch or English that describes 100% the Traditional version in text and explanation as recorded by King Rama III….
The intention of the Thai massage is fine.
But as a physician and acupuncturist, I notice no medical knowledge as long as young, sick and old people are treated the same.
Old people with severe osteoporosis are almost bent double. They apparently don't know about calcifications and arthritis either.
Old people with fat legs are treated harshly with knuckles or even sticks. They have never heard of thrombosis and certainly not the risk.
If you ask for these areas to be treated calmly, they will quickly fall back into their old ways.
Indeed, they follow a 1-week course in Wat Pho or elsewhere and have a diploma. In BE/NL it takes them 4 or 5 years at the University to obtain their master's degree. And if they start walking over your body again, it's over for me immediately. As a relaxing massage with oil OK, good for the skin, but healing is negligible. And of course, if you “massage”, or whatever you call it, rub, the healing will help to heal faster due to better blood flow in that area, but you can do that yourself too.
Not all physiotherapists in BE/NL have been trained for a long time...
You will also find short massage courses in BE/NL that anyone can follow.
https://www.wellnessacademie.be/opleidingsaanbod/massage-therapieen/
https://www.sportonderwijs.be/course/sportmasseur/tspomas
https://www.wellnessacademie.be/cursus-ontspanningsmassage/
Dear Ronnie,
You are talking about many beauty treatments, sports massage and relaxation massage.
All these courses do not pretend to cure disease.
These are all non-medical courses.
In the introduction you indicate that diseases in Thailand were and are treated through spiritual support, nutrition, herbs and massage.
My earlier comment was about the value of Thai massage in relation to medical knowledge.
“In the introduction you indicate that diseases in Thailand were and are treated through spiritual support, nutrition, herbs and massage.”
I don't indicate anything at all. Where do you get all that from?
I am just responding to Jan that not every massage in BE/NL is done by physiotherapists who have studied for years.
And there are also many types of massages that, like in Thailand, including the 1-week course in Wat Pho, also only involve a few days of training.
And only provide links as examples of such courses.
Where you get all the rest that I would point out is beyond me.