Ayurveda, the traditional health science of India, evolved around 600 BC in India. This system of medicine stressed on the prevention of body ailments in addition to curing them. Today Ayurveda is a unique, indispensible branch of medicine - a complete natural healing system that depends on the diagnosis of the body's humours - vata, pitta and kapha - to achieve the right balance.
Ayurveda believes in the treatment of not just the affected parts, but the individual as a whole, making it a natural way to refresh yourself, eliminate all toxic imbalances from the body and regain resistance and good health.
Kerala's equable climate, natural abundance of forests (with a wealth of herbs and medicinal plants) and the cool monsoon season are best suited for Ayurveda's curative and restorative packages. Traditional texts reveal that the cold monsoon wheather is the best season for rejuvenation programmes. The atmosphere remains dust free and cool. Munnar with its cool climate all year round provides the ideal backdrop for this rejuvenation and healing therapy.
Green Leaves the Ayurveda centre at Fort Munnar offers the best of the traditional Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Therapy or Rasayana Chikitsa. Rejuvenation Therapy tones up the skin and rejuvenates and strengthens all the tissues. This includes head and face massage with medicated oils and creams, body massage with herbal oil or powder and medicated steam bath. Herbal baths are also used.
