In the traditions of the old monks, it was recommended to stretch the traditional Thai massage over 2 hours. In Western cultures, this is shortened due to lack of time by about half of the time.
But - as with all other things in life here, there is continuity required. The regularity brings success - as in sports. The recommended number of massages is depending on the nature of the discomforts:. If you care about the recommended use, you will after a short time, even sometimes immediately, feel an improvement in your symptoms under certain circumstances. The Yoga elements fish, plow, bridge, pliers etc. Source: Asokananda: ''The art of traditional Thai massage.
The authorship of the Thai massage is the north Indian doctor Jivaka-Komarabhacca alternate spelling: Jivakar Kumar Bhaccha attributed. Even today he is revered in Thailand as the "father of medicine" and mentioned massage in a prayer service at the beginning of Thailand. Jivaka-Komarabhacca was contemporary of Buddha and has lived in the 5th century BC. In the Pali Canon, the ancient scriptures of Buddhism the Southern school of Theravada, it is called as a physician to the Indian Magadha king.
King Bimbisara was attached to the Buddha and sought him repeatedly. Also Jivaka-Komarabhacca was in touch with Buddha and has looked after him and his monastic community as a physician. The Thai massage was probably of monks, who moved from India to Myanmar, first passed over many centuries orally in Buddhist temples from generation to generation. This may, according to tradition the earliest from the 3. Century BC. It circulates the adoption, the Buddhist monks themselves had developed the Thai massage in order to cure them of the consequences of long meditation postures.
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Epigravuren are there still be seen today. All other products were already lost , in the destruction of ancient Thai royal city of Ayutthaya by Burmese Myanmar. As the Buddhist monks left the "Tibetan β Indian sphere" the knowledge about this massage art has left too.
