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People get massage with knives to get relief from stress arising from busy life.
It was propagated by the Buddhist monks of China, through them it spread to many countries.
The body is covered with cloth before a knife attack, this is prevalent in Taiwan.
whenever If you start feeling some tiredness in your body or your body feels heavy or you feel stressed, then getting body massage done is a good way. Its opinion is also given. Massage has been prevalent in Asian countries since ancient times. Nowadays, spas all over the world are doing this work. In this case, the massage done with knives in many Asian countries is not only different but it is also said to be effective. This is also popular.
In Taiwan, a massage is done which is considered to be the most dangerous in the world. For this massage, a method more than 2000 years old is used in Taiwan. Actually, here the massage therapist uses two big knives to chop meat.
There are many parlors offering this type of massage in the capital Taipei. In this, the therapist, after cleaning two knives with chemicals, attacks the entire body lightly. However, before the knife attack, the body is covered with a cloth.
massage with two big knives
A person who came to get a massage at a parlor in Taipei told that I was lying face down on the table, waiting for the massage with knives. Therapist Elsa first pressed my body with her hands so that I could reduce excess tension.
After this he started moving two cold steel knives on my body. First they attacked me lightly with knives on my back and hands. After this came the turn of my head. By this time my whole body started shivering. However, if there was no sound of knives hitting, I would not have even known what the massage was being done with.
After this, Elsa asked me for the third time to leave my body loose. I followed his instructions and closed my eyes. She said that she was repairing my ‘ki’ or ‘life force’ with the knife.
During knife massage, pressure is applied on the pressure points of the body. This is exactly like the aquapuncture method used for treatment in China.
‘Emotional healing also through knife massage’
The person told that after the knife massage I fell into deep sleep. Surprisingly, dozens of people get fed up of having knives stabbed all over their body for 70 minutes. Daolayo, who gives information about this method of massage, believes that physical and emotional healing can be done through this dangerous massage. According to him, massage has been an important part of the medical system in China for 2000 years.
BBC According to a report, it was propagated by the Buddhist monks of China. At the same time, about 1,000 years ago, the Tang dynasty spread it in Japan. This method of massage has been prevalent in Taiwan also since the civil war in China in 1940. In Japan and China, it is difficult to find massage parlors with knives these days. At the same time, its trend has started again in Taiwan in recent years. People get massage with knives to get relief from the stress arising in their busy lives.
Knife massage was popularized by the Buddhist monks of China. The Tang dynasty spread it to Japan about 1,000 years ago.
Training is given in 36 training centers in Taiwan
Daolayo I-Jing Education Center in Taipei has been providing training in knife massage for nearly four decades. They have 36 training centers throughout Taiwan. Of these, 15 have been started in the last five years alone. Now, massage therapists from all over the world including Japan, Hong Kong, France and Canada are trained at the centres. Nowadays people are using Knife Massage to cure diseases, get good sleep and get relief from stress.
how is this done
During massage, pressure is applied on the pressure points of the body. This is exactly like the aquapuncture method used for treatment in China. At the same time, people who come for training believe that these big steel knives have some unseen power, which not only relieves people from stress but also from diseases.
Before the massage, the person being massaged is asked to take a bath in the morning with hot water mixed with raw salt. This bath lasts for at least 15 minutes. Due to this, the muscles of the body become soft and then massage with the knife is more effective.
In this the edges of the knives are blunted. Knife massage therapy was popular in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty era of China from 770 to 221 BC. In those times, people did not consult doctors when they fell ill but instead turned to knife massage.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 11, 2024, 10:08 IST