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Green environment is free medicine to improve many chronic diseases

Do you like green Spaces? A two-year study in Finland, published in the British Medical Journal, found that frequent visits to green Spaces, such as forests, gardens, parks and meadows, helped people reduce the use of prescription drugs for depression, insomnia, high blood pressure and asthma. These drugs are often used to treat common and potentially serious health problems.

The study, which analyzed about 6,000 people, found that compared with those who visited green Spaces less than once a week, those who visited three to four times a week were 33 percent less likely to use mental health medications, 36 percent less likely to use blood pressure medications, and 26 percent less likely to take asthma medications.

Exposure to the natural environment is widely believed to be good for health, and this study provides another piece of evidence. Lobsang Gassan, a specialist in psychosomatic preventive medicine and president of the Lausanne Preventive Medicine Group, said he often encourages people to go into the forest, even including this advice in his "prescription", because nature has so many health benefits.

1. Improve chronic inflammation

Plants release a lot of oxygen through photosynthesis, and plants produce a lot of bioactive substances in the process, which help to fight oxidation and improve chronic inflammation.

Many people have chronic inflammation. When the body cells do not get enough oxygen, hypoxic cells will emit "reactive oxygen species", which damage cells and organs, causing oxidation and chronic inflammation in the body. Chronic inflammation will cause a decline in immunity, making it harder for the body to fight foreign viruses and bacteria.

Environmental, physiological and pathological factors may cause insufficient oxygen in the body. Lobsang Gassan pointed out that when there are stiff muscles, poor sleep, dizziness and other conditions, it may be a lack of oxygen in the body.

2. Promote immunity and prevent cancer

People can also inhale phytoncides when they are in green Spaces, especially forests. Also known as phytoncidin, it is a chemical released into the air by plants that has antibacterial properties that protect them from insects.

The study found that when people inhaled fendolol while walking in nature, the activity of natural killer cells (NK cells) in the body increased by about 50 percent. These cells kill tumor cells and virus-infected cells in the human body.

Lobsang Gassan believes that forest air helps to purify the lungs. So, he would ask patients, especially those with lung cancer, to get in touch with nature, preferably somewhere with forests, at least two or three times a month.

3. Relieve pressure, improve mood and regulate autonomic nerves

A natural environment full of plants helps you relax. Zhang Shiheng, director of the Neihu Qile Integrative Medicine Clinic, pointed out that the sounds in the forest are more abundant than those at the seaside, such as the singing of insects, birds and the wind. This kind of sound, called white noise, blocks out real noise, helps relieve stress, and is more relaxing than a completely quiet environment.

Research has also found that green landscape can reduce psychological stress, mental fatigue and trigger positive emotions, can improve anxiety, depression and anger, and has a preventive and therapeutic effect on depression. At the same time, bathing in the forest environment also helps to reduce stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, and people's stress can be relieved.

Stress is also closely related to autonomic disorders, and forest bathing can increase parasympathetic nerve activity and decrease sympathetic nerve activity, allowing the autonomic nervous system to return to a stable equilibrium state. In this way, you can also improve sleep.

4. Lower blood pressure and improve diabetes

Studies have found that forest environment can effectively lower blood pressure, lower pulse rate, and improve cardiopulmonary and metabolic function, which can help improve the quality of life of people with prehypertension or hypertension.

Factors that forests may improve blood pressure are speculated to include the positive effects of fendoline on the body, and the fact that the forest environment helps regulate the autonomic nervous system.

People with diabetes who walk in the forest can increase adiponectin, which helps to lower blood sugar levels. And high levels of adiponectin are associated with anti-diabetes, weight loss, and the prevention of atherosclerosis.

5. Improve hyperactivity disorder and focus

The natural environment can not only improve the concentration of the general population, but also improve the concentration of children with hyperactivity disorder. Just a walk in the park can help children with hyperactivity disorder concentrate better.

In his clinical treatment, Lobsang can also found that 80 to 90 percent of children with hyperactivity disorder or autism can slowly improve as long as they are exposed to nature.

6. Improve asthma and lung function

Asthma is associated with exposure to air pollution, and in children with asthma and other allergic diseases, exposure to forests can help improve symptoms. According to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal, children who grow up closer to green Spaces have improved lung health and tend to have better lung function.

Lobsang Gassan believes that plants are very effective in purifying the air, and "the best air purifier is a plant." He points out that many studies have found that simply having lots of plants indoors, such as tigertail plants, can help clean the air.

7. Care for your eyes

When using the eyes too much, look at the green environment, the eyes will feel relaxed. Zhang explained that the green wavelength of light can relax the eye muscles. In particular, the eyes will directly affect the brain, the eyes are not comfortable, the head will also follow the pain. Computer vision syndrome refers to when people look at a computer for too long, the discomfort of the eyes will extend all the way to the brain, causing headaches and nausea.

When walking into the green space, if you can, it is best to take off your shoes and step barefoot on the grass, soil, and sand to "ground gas", so that you can receive more of nature's medicine - electrons from the surface.

Scientist Clint Ober discovered the health benefits of doing so by accident, and he and Steve. As Dr. Sinatra and his co-authors put it in the book Grounded Qi, people live on an electric planet and live an electric life-the heart, brain, muscles, nervous system, and immune system are all dynamic electrical circuits. "Earthing" is the intersection of the weak current on the surface with the physiological current of the human body, so that the human body can restore electrical balance.

Several studies have now confirmed that walking barefoot on the ground can bring many benefits, including reducing chronic inflammation, pain and stress, improving blood flow, vitality and sleep, promoting wound healing, and the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases.

A study by the International Society for Clinical Thermal Imaging mentioned that an 85-year-old man originally had severe inflammation and chronic pain, and woke up every day, the body was stiff and sore, and after four weeks of grounding treatment, the pain completely disappeared.

The wounds of diabetic patients that are difficult to heal can also be accelerated to improve and reduce pain due to grounding.

To maximize the benefits of grounded air on the human body, just 30 or 40 minutes a day can significantly reduce pain and stress.

Lobsang Gassan said that the body is the structure of energy, grounding gas can not only release the bad energy on the body, but also massage the soles of the feet at the same time. There are many acupoints on the sole of the feet, especially Yongquan, which is a very good acupoint for relieving pressure, stabilizing mood and improving sleep. In addition, the soles of the feet are stimulated to promote microcirculation.

He takes his patients to a place with clean grass, barefoot and grounded, especially if the grass is in the sun. However, people with wounds on the soles of the feet should pay attention, especially diabetic patients, and should be avoided when there is a wound on the soles of the feet.

In addition, traditional Chinese medicine has the concept of harmony between heaven and man, and grounding qi is also in line with this view. Wu Guobin, president of Xinyitang Chinese Medicine Clinic, said that the ground belongs to the soil, the soil corresponds to the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach of Chinese medicine belong to the concept of digestive system. When people ground qi and absorb soil qi, they can adjust the spleen and stomach, and as long as the function of the spleen and stomach becomes better, the immune system can also follow.

Wu Guobin has heard of cancer patients walking barefoot in the mountains, the result of cancer recovery examples. He stressed that the energy information of the human body, the earth and the universe will be interconnected, and barefoot stepping on the ground can make an adjustment to the body energy, which is beneficial to the whole body health.