Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Vitamin G: The medicinal aspects of green space and forest medicine (Shinrin Yoku)

Global Summit on Herbals & Natural Remedies

October 26-27, 2015 Chicago, USA

Richaritha Gundlapalli1, 2

1Integrative Wellness Center (IWC), USA 2MDP BElife, USA

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Med Aromat Plants

Abstract :

In modern lifestyle, we are everyday faced with unprecedented amounts of stress and stress related health issues, ranging from hypertension, insomnia, burn out, just to name a few. One of the contributors of stress in modern life is living in an extremely toxic and artificial environment, far away from nurturing presence of nature and forest. As if on cue, there has been cutting edge research around the world that has been established immediate and high impact therapeutic nature of intimate engagement between human beings and their originally natural abode - â�?�?The forestâ�?. This presentation introduces the audience to the founding principles of â�?�?Shinrin Yokuâ�?, a Japanese modality of forest medicine and also provides review of latest findings and suggested engagements for practitioners to support their patients. The presentation will also present a synthesis of other complementary modalities that can mitigate the modern lifestyle diseases and introduces the path breaking concepts of Vitamin G. The presentation will specifically aim to extend the understanding of natural medicine beyond the ingestible herbs rather focus on the forest medicine as a therapeutic and recuperative modality, based on the communication and energy exchange between natural elements and human beings.

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Email: richaj@masterdelpe.com