This stimulating ritual was a popular practice in the Malay court houses among the princesses and court ladies in preparation for the wedding night. The warm oil with the exotic fragrance of a combination of several flower buds and sweet spices is rubbed onto the body.

A Herbal Steam Bath treatment starts with a gentle application of warm herbal oil all over the body. Next the individual is made to rest inside a steam chamber that lets out herbal steam from medicinal herbs, making the individual perspire profusely; this promotes cohesion between cells.

Traditional herbal cures, especially the home-based herbal spa.