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Visiting Bangkok, visiting the Thai Massage Museum Sookjai Holiday, invites you to preserve the wisdom of Thai massage. Nowadays, Thai massage is recognized worldwide. It can be seen that many foreigners travel to Thailand each year and are interested in massage to relieve symptoms. Some even come to study seriously. Moreover, Thai people have opened many Thai massage shops in foreign countries, which has become a profitable business. Because in reality, no one of any nationality has never had aches and pains. Especially with Thai herbal compress massage, it shows the profound wisdom and patterns of the Siamese people that have been passed down for hundreds of years.
As far as historical evidence can prove, it appears as a stone carving of Narai Banthomsin on the side of a stream in Khae Don Village, Nam Yuen District, Ubon Ratchathani Province, which shows an image of Phra Lakshmi offering a massage to Phra Narai. It is speculated that this underwater stone carving is as long as 900 years old.
For the story of Thai massage, if you mention Wat Pho or Wat Phra Chetuphon, many people will say "Oh", saying that they know Thai massage well. But they may not have seriously studied it. It can be said that they do not know the history of Thai massage. Also, they do not see Wat Pho as a source of knowledge, even though Wat Pho is like the first open university in Siam. It has been providing education to the public since the early Rattanakosin period.
Those who have come to worship the Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho, or come to take pictures, may have seen statues of hermits in various postures that appear throughout the temple area. These stucco dolls, His Majesty King Nangklao Chao Yuhua, King Rama III, had the idea that "It is beneficial to all people in all places, like medicine that is given." He ordered the collection of experts in casting hermits in 80 postures and composed poems to explain them to the public, seeing it as a merit like giving medicine to the sick.
With the royal patronage of Thai medicine that has been passed down, the Siamese people have access to knowledge and can relieve aches, pains, sprains, strains, and tightness, including controlling the wind along the lines, including the wind in the chest and waist. It's not a small problem. This pain is not ordinary at all.
After trying self-massage, we come to the story of line massage that we like. The knowledge from the exhibition of the "Thai Massage Museum, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" can be summarized that Thai massage started from massaging each other within the family, using various parts of the body to relieve aches and pains, and then developed into using massage equipment. When the massage has a clear pattern of relieving symptoms, it spreads and is accepted in that massage pattern.
The term "massage pattern" is used because Thai massage is a science that has been summarized and written into textbooks for a long time. These textbooks have been passed down from ancient times. The intention is to record and pass on knowledge, especially about the ten main lines, the prone position, and the supine position, which indicate the pressure points connecting throughout the body. The science of Thai massage believes that the human body has as many as 72,000 lines, but there are only 10 main lines, which are the ten main lines, which are used as the basis for diagnosing and treating aches and pains, as well as other illnesses.
The picture shows a massage plan textbook that was compiled and written in the reign of King Rama V (1871). If you study the biography of Somdet Phra Phuttha Chao Luang, you will find that he was a fan of massage. Even when traveling, he would have a masseuse follow him to serve him. Information from the exhibition inside the Thai Massage Museum, Wat Phra Chetuphon, also informs that each region of Thailand has different massage patterns and techniques. Massage techniques are diverse, including squeezing, pressing, palpating, kneading, squeezing, pulling, bending, stepping, hitting, or using the side of the hand to chop. Most folk masseuses are doctors in the local community, relying on massage work at their homes or traveling to massage at the homes of patients. It has also been found that many folk doctors have palm-leaf books showing massage points passed down from their ancestors.
Sookjai Holiday walks around taking pictures of the Thai Massage Museum exhibition to write a review for the readers of Sawasdee Online Publishing to read until my back starts to ache a little. I would like to present the story according to the exhibition of the museum only. For readers who are particularly interested, you can come and study by yourself at Wat Phra Chetuphon. Today, Sookjai Holiday would like to say goodbye to find a herbal compress masseuse first.
