? Forest medicine
This professional book is difficult to read. After all, I study landscape design, perceptual art, and medicine is rigorous.
With regard to the main contents of this book, forest medicine and forest medicine have become a new interdisciplinary subject and the focus of public attention, belonging to the categories of alternative medicine, environmental medicine and preventive medicine, and are disciplines that study the impact of forest environment on human health. It mainly includes physical factors, chemical factors and psychological factors to carry out research. The data mainly comes from experimental research, that is, the research on psychological-neural-endocrine-immune effects of walking in forests and natural environments. Use biological, physiological, biochemical, psychological and immunological methods. To study the mechanism of forest environment on human nervous system, immune system and endocrine system.
The main purpose of studying forest medicine is to quantify the beneficial effects of forest environment on human body with scientific evidence. It laid a foundation for the landscape design of forest recuperation base in the next step. Between reading these scientific papers, I often wonder whether it is meaningful to build a forest sanatorium. The following passage solved my doubts and strengthened my research direction.
? In Japan, an 85-year-old man in saitama suffers from cognitive impairment and can't remember many things in the past. In order to improve the cognitive status of the elderly, Shang Yuan Yan 'an arranged for him to go to a forest near his home after knowing the general life track of the elderly. This forest was planted by the old man himself when he was young. After coming to this forest, the old man who could hardly speak suddenly spoke more. Not only did he recall planting trees, but even the story of dating a girl when he was young came unexpectedly. In Upper Kenya Hara's view, it is this familiar forest that creates an emotional bond for the elderly. If you take the elderly to a strange forest, even if the environmental quality is high, it is difficult to achieve such an effect. The forest convalescence promoted by Benson Forest Health Association advocates the use of forests around you, and believes that any forest has healing effect. The forest convalescence promoted by Japan Forest Therapy Association pursues the maximization of comfort, and advocates that forest convalescence can only be implemented in a specific forest environment and needs the certification of forest convalescence base. The ideas of these two schools are significantly different, and it is not easy to integrate these two ideas in an inclusive way. Moreover, in the past, from the perspective of landscape restoration, we thought that the forest environment that was too primitive and artificial was not suitable for forest recuperation. This view has been written into the Technical Guidelines for the Construction of Forest Restoration Bases. In fact, virgin forests are suitable for wilderness therapy, and artificial forests are suitable for occupational therapy. Different forests have different therapeutic functions, and any forest has its health benefits. Any forest can provide forest recuperation services for human beings.
? So, is the certification of forest sanatorium still meaningful? I was suddenly proud to find that we solved these problems where we established the certification framework of forest convalescent bases. The framework of our forest convalescence base is built according to the German natural convalescence model, so in the process of construction and certification, the natural environment is weakened to the greatest extent, and the forest convalescence course is the main content. In other words, no matter what kind of forest, as long as the curative effect is recognized by evidence-based medicine, it may become a forest convalescent base. In this way, the forest convalescent base, a good card to promote regional economic development, has been completely and meaningfully preserved.
? The establishment of forest sanatorium base is not only the scientific development of evidence-based medicine, but also makes full use of the health care function of forest environment at the landscape level, which can better complete the economic transformation of forestry industry.