Forest Therapy - The Potential of the Forest for Your Health (eBook)

In fast-paced everyday life, it is becoming increasingly important to find an antipole. The forest seems to be the perfect place for this - it offers balancing stimuli, health-promoting effects and its climate is proven to be effective on human health. This non-fiction book explains the background and facts about the effect of forest visits on a scientifically sound basis and sensitizes readers to the great health benefits of forest bathing (Shinrin-Yoku) and forest therapy. As an oasis of tranquility, the forest invites you to slow down, regenerate and draw new energy. Written for interested lay people - psychotherapists, doctors and other health professionals can read along.  

From the contents:  

How the forest and its climate affect us - How to discover and use the forest and its atmosphere for your health. 

The Authors:  

Prof. Dr. Dr. Angela Schuh and Gisela Immich, M.Sc., research the effects of forests and climate on health at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and develop concepts for preventive forest use as well as forest therapy. 

This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Waldtherapie - das Potenzial des Waldes für Ihre Gesundheit by Angela Schuh and Gisela Immich, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Dr. rer. biol. hum. Dr. med. habil. Dipl. Meteorologist Angela Schuh is Professor of Medical Climatology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Academic Director at the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research (IBE) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She heads the department of Medical Climatology / Health Care Research Spa Medicine and is an internationally recognized expert in climatotherapy. 

Gisela Immich, M.Sc., is a research associate at the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research (IBE) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and works on forest therapy and health promotion as well as different natural healing methods.