Dr. Tsu-Tsair Oliver Chi, when summing up how infrared devices are attuned to the human body, reported that body tissues that need an infrared boost selectively absorb infrared rays. After boosting a tissue's infrared energy, the remaining rays pass onward harmlessly, a phenomenon called "resonant absorption."
You can see from this that Far Infrared is a natural energy the body uses to heal, repair and balance itself. We simply need more of it to counter the invasive effects of our environmental toxins, daily stress, injury and the aging process. This is why the Far Infrared Sauna is such a valuable and essential heath tool for people of all ages.
The Finns popularized sauna use. Their ancient religious ceremonies used it for mental, spiritual, and physical cleansing. Use of the sauna in their religion stayed with them when they migrated between 5,000 and 3,000 BC from an area northwest of Tibet to their present location in Finland.
Native American Indians have used for ages sweat lodges for cleansing and purifying, long recognizing the health benefits of a good sweat.
Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa, a member of the Research and Development Department of Fuji Medical, received a patent in 1965 for a zirconia ceramic infrared heater used in the first infrared thermal systems. For 14 years medical practitioners in Japan were the only ones using infrared thermal systems. They were finally released for public use in 1979. Further refined systems have been available in the United States since 1981. Have you ever been in a newborn nursery in a hospital? Infrared heat is used to keep the babies warm in hospitals around the world.
The water molecules in the blood are likewise changed into micro-molecules, and rid the body of toxic waste as well as increase the body's metabolic rate. Far Infrared in the blood stream is able to neutralize blood toxicity as well as smoothen the walls of arteries, capillaries and veins.
A research conducted by Japanese medical Professor (Tanji) on white mice with cancer cells showed that application of FIR (Ceramic Heater Rays) could also help enhance the cancer cells back to normal healthy cells.
There have been over 700,000 infrared thermal systems sold in Asia for whole-body treatments. An additional 30 million people have received localized infrared treatment in Asia, Europe, and Australia utilizing lamps, which emit the same 2 to 25 micron wave bands as employed in a whole-body system.
In Germany, physicians in an independently developed forum have used whole-body infrared therapy for over 80 years.
Infrared is being used as a valuable whole body healing modality in many countries at this time. Unfortunately the majority of the population is still unaware of this essential tool for health and quality of life.
When an electronic wave of many different wave lengths is radiated on a substance, some waves are reflected away and some waves just pass through the substance. The visible light spectrum is comprised of very short wave lengths, which are generally reflected away from a substance. The radio frequencies are comprised of long wave lengths which generally pass through a substance and out the other side. Other frequency wave bands are absorbed by a substance and the temperature of that substance rises.
We live in an environment of FIR waves and our body receives and radiates them. The FIR waves coming from the sun are the safest and the most beneficial electromagnetic energy source available.
To prove that infrared supports life consider the following. Only few creatures can survive under the extreme conditions of the North and South Poles due to the lack of infrared rays from the sun. This clearly indicates that the warmth generated by infrared rays is key in promoting metabolism and subsequently supporting life.
Material adapted from article by Dr Aaron M. Flickstein