History
Brief History:
- Palm healing, a type of healing in which one person lies their palm
on the “patient,” has a 3000 year old tradition in China. This
technique is based on the healing properties of the natural infrared
rays that we as humans give off.
- Sauna use was popularized by the Finns. It seems that the saunas
were originally used for bathing, as well as childbirth and some
ceremonies. The tradition came with the Finns when they migrated from
an area northwest of present day Tibet, between 5000 and 3000 BC, to
their present location in Finland. During travel, the sauna probably
resembled the sweat lodges of the American Indians – holes dug in the
ground covered with a cloth. The first recorded wooden saunas date to
sometime between the 5th and 8th centuries. Today, there is one sauna
for every two to three Finns and sauna design is a revered art.
- Numerous saunas appear along the Mediterranean and the world’s
first bathtub appears in the palace of King Minos of Crete in 1700 BC.
- Native American sweat lodges have been used for thousands of years
in North and South America and were documented with the European
invasion of the Western Hemisphere.
- Whole body infrared therapy has been used for greater than 80 years by German physicians in an independently developed form.
- Dr. Tadashi Ishikowa of Japan received a patent on the zirconia
ceramic infrared heaters in 1965. These were mostly used exclusively by
medical practitioners in Japan until they were released for public use
in 1979.
- The infrared sauna idea has been further refined and sold in the United States since 1981.
- Chinese researchers consider the band from 2 to 25 microns as the most therapeutic.
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