Saturday, September 3, 2011

ayurveda and the art of healing my leg.

as most of you know i got really badly hurt while swinging from a tree swing in London this past June. i fell about two stories and landed straight on my left foot. everything crunched up into my hip bone and i was out for the rest of the vacation. thankfully nothing was broken, but ever since June, it's been a struggle to walk and get rid of the bruising, especially on my foot.

Now that i am in india health care is much more cheaper and much more natural. i decided to look into an ayurvedic doctor to see if he could do some healing on the foot. im pretty obsessed with natural remedies and medicines, so when he came in baring only oil and leaves... i was siked!

so what he does, and what hes been doing to my foot for the last week, is first, massage it with deep oils. Then he cooks these specially picked leaves, binds them in cloth, heats them up and then massages my leg with them. At first i thought that this wasnt going to do the trick; but after 7 days im walking better and the pain and swelling have ceased dramatically! 

heres some photos of the process if you dont believe me ;)







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