The wonderful thing about Vietnamese Sauna is that it is so easy and convenient to do at home. Even you can do it by simply boiling a pot of water with herbs and creating a mini-sauna by covering yourself and the pot up with a large blanket!

Steam therapy and sweating are ancient healing practices world-wide. In the Americas, sweat lodges are performed for spiritual healing and purification, in Asia steam herbal saunas provide relief from illness, in Africa vapor baths are also indicated for disease as well as to energetically cleanse and protect and  Europe also has its own tradition of saunas and sweat lodges for ceremonial and therapeutic healing. All of these practices include steam, an enclosed space and plant medicine. In Vietnam, where my ancestors come from, steam therapy or Xong Hoi is a very easy and practical folk remedy that is common knowledge.