A needle is not sticked deep into skin, so there is almost no pain and no bleeding.
The purpose of acupuncture is to improve and promote blood circulation, which works on gastrointestinal function or tunes the muscle. This helps you to relieve the muscle stiffness caused by tiredness, remove your tiredness, or control muscular fatigue by using it before and after playing sports.

The needle used for Ra-Ku patch, called Enpishin (円皮鍼: circular acupuncture needle ), is easy to be handled in the modern acupuncture treatment, and has almost no pain nor discomfort.
It features a needle does not stick into the depth of skin, which is able to be handled by non-professional users.

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Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment is a direct stimulating treatment on the skin with acupuncture needle or moxa.
Oriental medicine believes that 12 roots called Keiraku (経絡: Meridian) are running on the surface of body, and "KI (vital spirit)" is constantly going round those roots.
And acupuncture points called "Tsubo" are existing on the body with a central focus on these 12 meridians. When physical abnormality or disorder occur on the body, a pain, stress or pit, or temperature or color changes will appear on the specific acupuncture points.
Stimulating such acupuncture points showing such changes is acupuncture and moxibustion treatment which remedies pathological abnormality.

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