Bamboo was considered a powerful healing tool in ancient China, Japan, and Indonesia. Bamboo still symbolizes life, energy, prosperity, longevity, and fertility in these cultures. For use in massage, sets of bamboo sticks of different lengths and diameters of typically 4 to 15 inches are organically treated for health and safety reasons, ‘These bamboo canes are both hard and straight, and at the same time flexible and light due to the silica covering its outer cell walls, Silica is an essential element for maintaining the integrity and health of the skin, ligaments, tendons, and bones. Bamboo extract is the richest known source of silica. Silica has a strong restorative effect on many of the body’s tissues, making bamboo massage even more potent than just the practitioner’s rolling and kneading maneuvers
