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Usui Reiki Ryōhō does not use any medication or instruments, but uses looking, blowing, light tapping, and touching.

According to Frank Arjava Petter, Usui touched the diseased parts of the body, he massaged them, tapped them lightly, stroked them, blew on them, fixed his gaze upon them for two to three minutes, and specifically gave them energy, and used a technique commonly referred to as palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine.

Through the use of this palm healing ( sometimes referred to as " tenohira " ( 掌, meaning " the palm "), practitioners believe that they are transferring universal energy ( reiki ) in the form of ki through the palms that allows for self-healing and and a state of equilibrium.