Kao Discovers that 40-degree Centigrade Moist Heat Helps Improve Blood Circulation.

Tokyo, Japan, Sept 3, 2005 - (JCNN) - Kao announced on September 1 that it has discovered a useful property of moist heat. In its recent research, the company confirmed that skin warming using moist heat at 40 degrees centigrade helps improve the blood circulation.

Subsequently, such care helps not only alleviate backache but also balance the autonomic nervous system and regulate the gastrointestinal functions.

In line with this discovery, Kao has developed a thin heating sheet that contains iron powder. The sheet can warm the skin with 40-deg C moist heat for about five hours.

Details of these findings have been presented at various meetings for academic societies at home and overseas, including the Japanese Pharmacological Society, the Physiological Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Pain Clinicians, the Japanese Society of Biometeorology, the Japanese Society of Nursing Art and Science, as well as the 4th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience held in Marseille, France in July.

Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net

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