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Thai Traditional Medical Science School and Body Massage
Thai Traditional Medical Science can be found throughout all of the Thai Community, with
certain cures from herbs and other ingredients. In the old days there were 2 types of
doctors : a Royal doctor and a local one. At the start of the Rattanakosin Period, King
Rama III appointed a Royal doctor, Phraya Bamroer Rajaphat, as the chief of the
doctors to inscribe medical text on pieces of slate and framed them on columns of the
cloisters around the Phra Maha Chedis and in pavilions or Sala Rai.
In 1856 King Rama V appointed his royal doctors to translate the great edition of
Pali-Sanskrit into a Thai version; indexing the books as Medical Science Textbook
(Royal Edition); and another on body massage known as Massage Handbook - Royal
Edition. On 30th May, 1962, a council of ancient medical sciene doctors were
approved by Ministry of Health to found Wat Phra Chetuphon Thai Traditional
Medical Science School (Wat Pho) for Thai Traditional medical science and body
massage only. This school is located at 2 Sala Rai in the East.
There are 2 kinds of Thai Traditional massage science : one is following the
contrrted hermit postures; and another is herbal massage.
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