🇹🇼 Taiwan · Traditional
Dao Liao刀療（ダオリャオ）刀療
A Taiwanese therapy of rhythmically tapping the body with two blunted cleavers. It is said to derive from Chinese Buddhist monks and to have reached Taiwan in the 1940s, though documentary support is thin; 'regulating qi' is the traditional explanation.
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- Origin
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan · 🇨🇳 China
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Related therapy / Traditional massage
- Techniques
- Tool / Percussion
- Practitioner body parts
- Tool
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Knife massage · Knife therapy · Blade massage · 刀療
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