There are many techniques of natural healing exist today, range from ancient Ayurweda to homeopathy, from hydrotherapy to acupuncture, not to mention widely known aromatherapy and various herbal-based alternative medicines. Bali also has its own techniques of natural healing, one of them is boreh.

Boreh is pasta-like substance made of mixture of natural ingredients such as roots (bebungkilan), such as lesser galangal (cekuh), tumeric (kunyit), ginger (jae), and alpina galangal (isen); leaves (don-donan) such as liligundi; rice; herbs, and spices such as cloves (cengkeh), sepet-sepet, nutmeg (jebug garum), pepper (mica), and tabia buun (a kind of chili which usually grow on mud wall of traditional house compound) Sometimes these ingredients are mixed with tree bark (babakan) such as the bark of mesui, pule and kelor tree.

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On 9^th December 200 Balinese will celebrate Kuningan day. Kuningan takes its name from the fact that a special offering that is presented in this holyday is yellow rice (nasi kuning) is made by colouring ordinary white rice with tumeric (kunyit). Kuningan occurs once in every 210 days in the Balinese Pawukon cycle (traditional Balinese calendar). The Kuningan Day is the time for commemoration as the ancestors return to the heaven after ten days dwelling on earth and the Balinese express their gratitude to gods for His mercy to the human races.

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