🇮🇩 Bali (Indonesia) · Traditional
Borehボレ（バリのスパイスペースト）
The Balinese tradition of warming the body with a paste of ginger, clove, nutmeg and rice flour, long used to relieve fatigue from work in the fields.
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- Origin
- 🇮🇩 Bali (Indonesia)
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Traditional massage / Spa treatment
- Techniques
- Herbal / Heat
- Practitioner body parts
- Palm / Thumb
- Medium
- Herbal
- Clothing
- Skin contact, draped
- Setting
- Table
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