The four most common method of treatment in traditional Thai medicine separate into interviewing the patient, physical examination, analytical diagnostics and astrological analysis. For treatement herbs as well as Thai-massage are used. In seldom cases, small surgical operations are undertaken.
The teaching of Yoga is, like Ayurveda, one of the historic roots of Thai massage. The basic element in Yoga is the knowledge of the basic unity, the Advaita, which says that our real core, Atman, and the real foundation of all creation, Brahman, are actually one and the same thing.
Yoga is one of the six old Indian systems of philosophy, being called Darshanas. In the old Indian thinking philosophy is not just the theoretical contemplation on the world, as it is understood in the Western world, but also the instructions of how the life should be lived, letting the theoretical wisdom also becoming practical.
Yoga before everything else is a science of self-knowledge and the further development of the mind. This mind, being free of any uneasiness but still active, can function as the instrument to bring us more satisfaction, clarity and freedom.
In Yoga the main obstacle to for improving our self is the thinking habits that we tend to stick to. The Yoga meditation knows two ways of penetrating these habits. For one thing the concentration on one thought, for other the method of exact examination (Vichara).
