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Owing to continuous progress in medical science and rapid development of industry and economy, the average life span of Korean woman has already reached to 82 years old and the woman older than 50 years old of the total woman population reach 22.2% and, therefore, health care for climacteric women is being dealt with more importantly than ever. Particularly, women in the middle years tend to have estrogen deficiency due to ovarian insufficiency before and after menopause and go through Postmenopausal symptoms and mental and physical stress. This study examined the effect of Ayurveda Massage, an Indian traditional alternative medicine, upon Postmenopausal symptom, This survey selected the experimental group with 10 menopausal women of 48~58 years old women in the middle age residing in Masan city and Changwon city, Gyeongnam who have no other diseases and have taken no drugs and are 6 months to less than 3 years after Postmenopausal and performed Ayurveda massage for them by means of Dhanwantharam thailam, Ayurveda oil, of Indian traditional Ayurveda massage once a day for 10 days. As a result of this study, postmenopausal symptom of the experimental group through selfdiagnosis questionnaire decreased from average 16.60±8.71 before the above-mentioned Ayurveda treatment to average 9.10±7.32 after the treatment, with significant variation 7.50±6.55. From the above findings, Indian traditional Abyanga(=massage) therapy was effective in reducing Postmenopausal symptom in postmenopausal women. The result of this study revealed that Ayurveda(Abyanga therapy) is effective in reducing Postmenopausal symptom in postmenopausal women and, it’s considered, its more and positive applications for health care of postmenopausal women will exhibit great contribution towards upgrading the quality of beauty industry.