Travel & Hospitality Awards - Spa & Wellness 2023

Spiritual Healing
Thai wellness is a truly holistic approach to health. Not
just focusing on the body, it’s an all-encompassing
approach that also includes the mind and spirit. The core
principles of health, whether physical, mental, or spiritual,
come from the four elements: earth, wind, fire, and water.
When these four elements are unbalanced, they manifest
in poor health.
Instead of treating the body as a set of systems and
individual organs, Thai wellness treats the entire
organism. The idea is that the body cannot heal without
the spirit, and vice versa. Medical patients are encouraged
to meditate as well as receive physical treatment, for
example.
Thai Traditional Medicine
It’s not just about massage, although it plays a huge part
in the lives of Thai people, who have exported their expert
knowledge and practises throughout the globe. The
study of tradition herbal medicine makes up another pillar
of Thai Wellness.
As a traditional form of healthcare, TTM focuses on using
herbs, spices, and foods as medicine. Herbology, as it’s
widely known, is a complementary medicine that has its
basis in centuries-old practises.
Alongside lesser-known herbs used in traditional
medicine, herbs, spices, and produce with familiar
names like turmeric, ginger,
and tamarind all contain
powerful compounds
that can promote
good health.
They even form
the basis of
some modern
medicines.
Thai Food for Wellness
The most famous export from “The Land of Smiles”
must be Thai food. Found across the world, the exquisite
marriage of spices, aromatic herbs, and creamy coconut
milk is a familiar sight and smell to any foodie.
The bright colours of Thai curries like gaeng ped gai (red
curry) and gaeng keow wan (green curry) are as vibrant
as they are delicious. It’s becoming known that “eating
the rainbow” and trying to pack as many different colours
as possible into your diet is great for gut health, and the
number of different vegetables used in Thai cooking all
help to deliver vital vitamins and minerals needed for a
balanced diet.
But Thai food isn’t just delicious; it has been found to
help with everything, from promoting good gut health to
containing exciting anti-ageing properties. The healthy
and functional diet that Thai people enjoy every day,
which includes lots of different vegetables, fermented
foods, and naturally low levels of gluten, all contribute to
improved digestion and overall wellness.
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