Kairali — The Ayurvedic Healing Village · Since 1908
Treatment Gallery
Panchakarma and supporting treatments as they are given at the hospital, photographed in the treatment rooms with the therapists at work. Each caption names the procedure.
39 photographs · 5 chapters · 1 video
Treatment rooms and preparation
10 photographs
Treatment rooms are brick-walled, with a carved wooden therapy table, a hanging brass dhara vessel and candles. Before a session the therapists prepare the kizhi boluses, herbal pastes and warm oils in brass vessels; a physician's pulse examination and the changing area are also shown.
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Close-up of an oil drop falling from an Anu Thailam dropper bottle into a brass spoon; oil visibly mid-drip. -
Therapist assisting a patient with traditional cotton treatment attire before therapy in a changing area. -
Treatment room seen from the foot end of the carved wooden therapy table with candles lit; arched wooden door at right. -
A rattan tray of herbal poultices, brass oil bowls and a folded cloth sits on a dark stone ledge. -
Therapist in uniform walking along a cottage verandah at sunrise carrying a brass bowl. -
A patient in traditional cotton treatment attire with a therapist adjusting the drape before therapy. -
A rattan tray holding herbal poultices. -
Close-up of a therapist's hands kneading a cloth kizhi bolus. -
The therapy room corner with product arrangement and candle on the wooden therapy table. -
Wide view of a treatment-materials tray with brass oil vessels.
Video
The quiet room and therapy area
The quiet room and the therapy area of the treatment block, a 47-second film from 2023 on the Kairali Ayurveda Group channel. Press play to load the YouTube player.
Watch on YouTube (opens a new tab)Abhyanga and oil therapies
9 photographs
Abhyanga is the synchronised application of warm herbal oil by two therapists, here along the legs, feet, shoulders and scalp. Pizhichil pours the oil from a brass vessel over the body; Udwarthanam works herbal powder into the skin instead of oil.
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Pizhichil: therapist pours herbal oil from a brass vessel over a seated patient's back and spreads it by hand. -
Udara Abhyanga: detail of therapist's hands sweeping herbal powder across the patient's abdomen during Udara Abhyanga. -
Shiro Abhyanga: therapist massages the temples and scalp of a seated patient with eyes closed during Shiro Abhyanga. -
Abhyanga: therapists massaging herbal oil into a patient's oiled legs. -
Udara Abhyanga: overlapping-hands technique in Udara Abhyanga: therapist's forearms. -
Shiro Abhyanga: therapist works herbal oil into the parted wet hair and scalp of a seated patient. -
Abhyanga: two therapists perform synchronised leg massage with herbal oil on a patient lying on a wooden therapy table. -
Abhyanga: therapists massage the feet and lower legs of a supine patient on a wooden therapy table. -
Abhyanga: close-up of a therapist's oiled hands massaging a patient's foot.
Shirodhara and Thakradhara
7 photographs
In Shirodhara a continuous stream of warm herbal oil falls from a suspended brass vessel onto the forehead; Thakradhara uses medicated buttermilk in the same way. The patient lies on the wooden table with cotton eye pads while a therapist steadies the vessel.
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Shirodhara in progress: continuous oil stream from suspended brass vessel onto the forehead of a patient with eye pads. -
Thakaradhara: two therapists administer Thakradhara: medicated buttermilk is poured from a steel vessel. -
Shirodhara: suspended brass Shirodhara vessel with wick directs a continuous stream of herbal oil to the forehead. -
Thakaradhara: continuous medicated buttermilk stream from the suspended brass vessel onto the forehead. -
Shirodhara: high-angle view into the brass Shirodhara vessel. -
Thakaradhara: Thakradhara in progress: one therapist steadies the suspended brass vessel. -
Thakaradhara: wide view of Thakradhara: therapist in kasavu sari holds the suspended brass vessel as medicated.
Vasti and Pichu
4 photographs
Janu Vasti holds warm medicated oil in a ring of herbal dough sealed around the knee. Greeva Pichu and Shiro Pichu place an oil-soaked cotton pad on the upper spine or the crown and pour warm oil over it from a brass vessel.
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Janu Vasti: therapists shaping and sealing herbal dough rings around a patient's knees. -
Greeva Pichu with therapist pouring herbal oil onto the patient's upper back. -
Janu Vasti: close-up of therapists' hands holding the oil-filled herbal dough ring on the patient's knee. -
Janu Vasti.
Kizhi, Swedana and Thalapothichil
9 photographs
Pinda Sweda presses warm herbal boluses (kizhi) over the back, chest and limbs; Bashpa Swedana is herbal steam taken seated in a wooden chamber with only the head outside. In Thalapothichil the scalp is covered with a medicated herbal paste.
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Thalapothichil: patient seated upright after Thalapothichil application: the scalp is fully covered. -
Patient stepping into a traditional wooden steam chamber with doors open and steam rising. -
Pinda Sweda: therapist pressing a warm herbal bolus (kizhi) to the upper chest. -
Thalapothichil: seated patient with herbal paste applied over the scalp during Thalapothichil; eyes open. -
Patient seated inside an open traditional wooden steam chamber with visible steam. -
Pinda Sweda: close-up of a therapist pressing a warm herbal bolus above the knee of a patient's oiled leg. -
Thalapothichil: close profile of Thalapothichil application: therapist's hands press herbal medicated paste. -
A patient looking over the carved wooden doors of a traditional steam chamber during Swedana treatment. -
Pinda Sweda: seated patient self-applying a warm herbal bolus to the knee.
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