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TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE
HERBAL THERAPY & HOT-STONE BATHS ritual. A fleeting walk from Aman Gangtey, over a hill
Baths have been an essential part of Bhutanese household above the pictorial Phobjikha Valley, a wooden shelter
life and old-style medicine for epochs. As the water (potato shed) with bamboo doors houses Aman’s
temperatures reach a penetrating level, medicinal herbs Bhutanese hot-stone bath.
float on the surface releasing a sweet aroma. A hot-stone bath is not only to relax a sore body but it
It is understood that the hotness of the water, the rejuvenates even otherwise. All one needs to do is get into a
minerals unconfined from the rock, and the herbs all wooden tub filled with water, rich in minerals and
syndicate to generate therapeutic advantages for high balanced sprigs of khempa and let the red-hot stones,
blood pressure, abdominal ailments and inflammation. added on the other side do their magic!
Khempa, the herb artemisia is a regular painkiller, used For the amateur, one could go with fewer stones before
as a remedial addon to the old-style Himalayan cleansing soaking in the water and then add on more if you want to.
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