Sri Lanka and Ayurveda

nice to meet you.

My name is Tashiro and I am a staff member at Utsushiki, working on creating everyday items as part of the KiKi Product project .

This time, I spent about three weeks studying Ayurveda, a traditional medicine with a 5,000-year history, in Sri Lanka, an island in the Indian Ocean.

I usually sit at the counter and talk with customers, mixing herbs that suit their constitution and selling them by weight.

The store mainly uses organic Western herbs, but we have always wanted to do something using herbs and wild plants that are more readily available, so we are slowly growing herbs in the fields around Utsushiki.

Wanting to further deepen my current learning and experiences, I went to Sri Lanka to learn the wisdom of Ayurveda.