Forest bathing has been widely researched ... the subjects for several hours after the exposure to nature. What are phytoncides? Created with Sketch. Trees and plants emit phytoncides, essential ...

These findings indicate that forest bathing trips increase NK activity, which was mediated by increases in the number of NK ...

Forest bathing relaxes the mind and strengthens the body's defences. Trees naturally produce phytoncides, which are aromatic compounds with antimicrobial properties. When we walk in the forest ...

The practice was called forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku ... found that trees and plants emit aromatic compounds called phytoncides that, when inhaled, can spur healthy biological changes in ...

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get ...