HISTORY OF IYASHI DÔME

The far infrared rays exist since the beginning of time and are a vital source for the development of plants and of all living matter.

However, it's only in 1800 that William Herschel, an English astronomer of German descent, discovers the infrareds. He placed a mercury thermometer inside the spectrum obtained in a glass prism in order to measure the heat corresponding to each colour. He found that the heat was more intense towards the red zone in the spectrum, including where there was no light. For the first time, it was observed that heat could be transmitted by an invisible form of light and thus without convection (hot air transfer) nor by conduction (propagation in solid matter).

Between 1945 and 1947, the Japanese government invested in research in order to determine which were going to be the effects of the two atomic bombs that the Japanese people had suffered. The two bombs were of different materials (uranium and plutonium).

The results showed deformation of cells causing the physical malformations noticed in survivors of the two atomic bombs.

The goal now was to find a system allowing the regeneration of these cells and remedying the heavy side effects.

In parallel, in the 50's, the infrareds were already used for military purposes in the US and the NASA had detected waves essential to metabolism, growth and formation of live bodies: "rays of growth".

These rays were the far infrared waves (between 8 - 14 microns). Without these waves, plants and animals cannot grow, nor regenerate.

In the 60's in Japan, the first devices emitting far infrareds were created from ceramic.

Several japanese teams of scientists worked actively on researches funded by the Japanese government. They mainly focused on far infrared waves and, in the 80's, had the remarquable idea to replace ceramic, a mineral material, by wood, an organic material, thus optimizing the body's capacity of receiving far infrareds.

A combination of three species of wood compressed to 1.000 tons / cm2 are used to heat directly by an electric stimulus, without using any external heating source.

The first Iyashi Dôme with B-Carbon technology was born.

In 1987, a patent for far infrared therapy for wellbeing, beauty treatments and medical treatments is filed.

In 1998, the Shimazu Techno Research Laboratory (Koichi Tanaka, scientist, receives the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002) detects for the first time dioxin in the sweat of a person who had spent 30 minutes in the Iyashi Dôme.

Starting in 2006, Iyashi Dôme continues to research heavy metals.