Huang Jennjia, who teaches in the Department of Mass Communications at Tamkang University and who has done research in consumer anthropology in Japan, explains that this concept originated in that country, and that it refers to goods and services known as "healing series" products. This suggests the application of medical ideas from physical therapy to recovering from psychological injury, to relaxing, and to increasing stress resistance.
曾赴日本進行消費人類學研究的淡江大學大眾傳播系助理教授黃振家指出，「療癒」來自日本的「癒し」一詞，是將生理上的醫病概念，引伸至心理創傷的回復、壓力排解及抗壓性的提升等。