The powerful healing recipes of the traditional herbal therapy are rooted deep in Indian history. Sri Lanka has adopted its own brand of Ayurveda, which is becoming very popular now, due to its surefire answers for stress, pressure, tension, headaches and digestive tract problems.

Many star class hotels have their own Ayurveda Centres with trained doctors. Some hotels have evolved into exclusive herbal therapy hotels, where curative holidays are offered and sunbathing is tempered with oil massages and herbal saunas.

Certain hotel Ayurveda centres offer beauty treatment as well. Others conduct meditation lessons.

Most popular treatments are herbal oil body treatment, warm oil treatment for sinus and tension headaches, steam bath, sauna, herbal bath and herbal head massage.