Thai massage. Myths and biases

Thai massage Thai massage often perceive as continuation (or the beginning) sex service as only very few of tourists arriving to Thailand really know that "traditional Thai massage" is something absolutely another, rather than skillfully veiled prostitution in which are engaged in massage offices more than 70 % of the female population of Thailand. At traditional Thai massage, or "ancient massage" ("Nuad Boran" as it name on-thai), behind shoulders - long history of medical influence.
Traditional Thai massage (or Nuad in Thai) has long history of medical influence on a human body. This massage, as well as the Chinese national medicine, and the Indian yoga, is based on the doctrine about the invisible power lines penetrating all body. Thai massage influences on акkpresure the points which are on these lines, is capable to relieve of many sufferings. . Thai massage - very widespread form of treatment in Thailand. Thai massage takes a leading place in system of public health services and it is considered a convenient and effective method of treatment by all levels of population. Thai massage is based approximately 2500 years ago by the doctor from Northern India by name of Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha, the contemporary of the Buddha and personal doctor Magadha, King Bimbisary. Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha, as it is known, was the friend of the Buddha and the doctor for monks of Buddhists. Thai massage will mention in Pali Kanon, old texts of the Buddhism of Southern school Theravada (found today mainly in Sri Lanka, Birma/Myanmar, Laos, Kampuchea and Thailand). Unlike classical western forms of massage, Thai massage addresses to mechanical influence on muscles of the person, but more to so-called lines and areas of energy which are considered as the basic meridians in the Chinese medicine less. Traditional Thai massage uses certain sites of a body to make positive impact on other (internal) parts of an organism by means of what the pleasant condition of a relaxation is reached. For Thai massage no oils and creams are used. Only sometimes the special grassy extracts strengthening effect of massage. The main results of traditional Thai massage are felt by the patient at spiritual level (restoration of internal balance, harmonization of nervous system). Closely bound with akkopresure and a reflexology, owing to the unique technics (exotic as all east), Thai massage in certain cases has much best results of improvement, than usual forms of massage (remember how Chinese women and Japanese longly don't grow old: to rather mature age they look, as juvenile girls).