Sauna -Oukup

Oukup is Karo traditional steam bath. The mixture of the spices used includes skin of oranges traditionally one will cover him self with blanket or the like and put the hot water with the boiled spices, leaves and oranges skin under his seat usually a chair. Nowadays the process of doing this already modernized and one who wants to have steam bath will sit in a small room and the steam is sent to the room through a pipe.
This modernized steam bath has become popular in recent years, especially in Medan where hundreds of steam bath places have been opened. This kind of steam bath is good for curing flue, headache and insomnia.