Ayurveda

Treatments

They are always making more medicated oils and milks for treatments. Everyone is treated according to their Dosha, or constitution.

In Ayurveda there are 3 doshas, Pita, Vata and Kapha. You can have a single or dual or can be tri-doshic. I am Pita-Vata so the oils and medications and treatments are designed for this type.
So far I have experienced:

Dhanya Kizhi
This is where you have oil rubbed all over your body then they have these little pouches of herbs that they first press onto a hot pad of some sort then pound your body. Up and down on all 4 sides you are well pounded. They pound rythmicalls as well as there are 2 pounders.

Ksheeradhara
This is where you are first rubbed all over with hot medicated oil then you have medicated hot milk poured all over your body. It feels like the mother you never had. It is a return to the womb. This is good stuff

Thakradhara
My friend lysette is having this one now and i can only hope. First you have hot oil rubbed all over your body by two people. Then one of the people pours slightly cool milk back and forth over your forehead while the other one rubs your body in circular motions. You stay on your back the whole time for this one.

Another treatment that i can only hope that i will have is where you first have hot medicated oil rubbed all over your body they they soak their little pouches of herb in hot milk and rub that over your body.

After your treatment you are in a sort of heaven and are sent off to rest.

MEDICATED OIL

the picture on the right that looks like boiling oil is boiling oil. The medicines and oils can contain hundreds of herbs.

The schedule in a day is as follows:
6am medicine – this one is very grainy and tastes a bit nasty
7am tea
9am breakfast
12:45 pm medicine – this one is yummy like a sweet red wine only thicker
1pm lunch
3:30 tea
5:30 medicine – this one can be nasty and needs lots of water to get it all down
6pm dinner
8pm medicine – this one is like molasses with many herbs and medicines

at some point in the day every day you have your treatment and after the treatment you have an eye-wash.
Once a week there is a clay facial mask which is really rolling back the years.