Word: shirodhara
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...treatment, lying flat on my back with a thin stream of heated oil drizzling onto my forehead. For 40 min. two barefoot attendants poured a pungent green oil over my brow in a gentle back and forth motion. It might sound like slow torture, but the shirodhara oil treatment is deeply relaxing and said to cure migraines. It's one of the more common prescriptions in the Ayurvedic school of medicine, which is one of the world's oldest forms of healing. Practitioners have been using Ayurveda's techniques for thousands of years, prescribing gentle herbs, diet, hydrotherapy and medicinal...
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