Cupping (མེ་བུམ།) is a traditional Tibetan therapy in which a jar is attached to the skin surface by low air pressure created by heat produced by ignited material in the jar. There are a great variety of jars, but the commonly used ones are bamboo, glass, and copper. The latter two are more powerful.This method is […]

Tibetan moxibustion is called Metsa (མེ་བཙའ།), Me (མེ་) means fire and tsa (བཙའ་) means to produce, because the heat produced by the fire at one particular point helps the energy to circulate and reduces the pain. It is not at all based on the concept of meridians. Tibetan moxa practice was developed and is based on the psycho-physical formation of natural energy […]

Ku Nye (སྐུ་མཉེ།) is a Tibetan form of massage, which has been practiced for thousands of years in Tibet and the Himalayan region of Asia as an integral part of Tibetan Medicine. In Tibetan, the word Ku (སྐུ་) means to apply oil and Nye (མཉེ་)་means to apply pressure with a variety of movements. (Ku Nye; image source: http://pelotillehuefc.blogspot.com) How […]