Ito-thermie<温熱療法イトオテルミー>
In Greek, "Thermie" means heat or warmness.Ito-thermie was invented and developed by Dr. Kinitsu Ito(1883~1969)who was a medical doctor from Ichinomiya, Aichi Pref. Since its invetion in 1929, Ito-thermie have been loved and supported by many people and organizations all over Japan as "precious tradition". (If you want to know more about Ito-thermie's organizatin, please refer to Ito-thermie Shinyukai's HP)
Next, inIto-Thermie's session a therapist uses special tools called "Reionki" and incense called"Thermie-sen"
"Reionki"(Silver tool)and "Thermie-sen"
During the session, the clients will wear underwear, swimming pants or short pants(male) and underwear(female), but they will be professionally draped all the time.

After lighting " Thermie-sen" and covers it with "Reionki", the therapist will rub, friction, compress or "heat sting" the client's whole body in prone or supine position. The session takes 40-50 minutes depending on the client's body condition on that day. The combination of heat and the therapist's skill bring the clinets body the warmness that they will never experinced before!
Lastly, Ito-thermie is effective to muscle pain, cold limbs, insomnia, allrgic condition, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis.