To make the compress, a combination of healing herbs is bundled together in accordance with ancient recipes, steamed and placed directly on the skin to soothe muscular aches and swelling. Na-Bua uses only authentic, imported herbs and compresses from Thailand.
The healing practice of Thai herbal compress therapy dates back nearly 5,000 years, to an era when the knowledge of plants, including their effects through ingestion or application on the body, were meticulously studied and then passed down from one generation to the next.
This herbal therapy was designed to relieve pain and inflammation, an assortment of therapeutic herbs such as prai, ginger, turmeric and lemongrass are strategically wrapped in a muslin cloth to form the compress which is then steamed and applied to the body in gentle pressing, circular and rolling movements.
Our Herbal Massage is 90 minutes long due to the fact that therapist manipulate muscles using steamed Herbal compresses in addition to performing a Swedish massage over and above in order to further aid healing.
The receiver typically gets the massage session undressed on a table and will be asked to lie on your back or stomach, under a bath towel. Your level of undress is based on your comfort, but the area being worked on will need to be exposed so a bath towel will be strategically placed so as to protect your modesty yet reveal the appropriate areas.
Your massage therapist will use deep kneading and stroking with varying amounts of pressure manipulating muscles and joints with herbal compresses, hands, thumbs and forearms.
1.5 Hour treatment times available
Light refreshments
Herbal massages will leave you feeling deeply relaxed and a little sleepy too.
Herbal compresses are very aromatic, the entire room will smell of the herbs for receivers to ingest and inhale.
