Walks around trees cheer you up. Why is this happening? Essential oils secreted by trees have a healing effect on our bodies. For example, birch alleviates depression, oak improves blood circulation, and horse chestnut improves mood. Learn about the healing properties of other trees.
The ancients already knew thattreeshad a beneficial effect on our body. Their healing powers were also used by folk medicine, dividing trees into good and bad. The first included linden, birch, chestnut, oak, rowan and elderberry. Poplar, aspen and alder were considered "vampires", which deprive us of energy.
Also today, more and more doctors recommend their patients to stay surrounded by trees, which are a natural source of oxygen, as often as possible. Instead, they absorb dust, soot and toxins from the air. Research in Russia showed that a Siberian fir sprig placed in a hospital room reduced the number of germs in the air by half.
How trees affect he alth?
It is known that conifers, thanks to the essential oils they emit, have a strong aseptic effect and have a beneficial effect on the respiratory system. That is why sanatoriums in which diseases related to it are treated are most often established among pine forests.
As part of the research on the beneficial effects of trees on the human body, the Americans placed one group of patients with cardiovascular problems and arterial hypertension in a sanatorium surrounded by lime trees. The patients were instructed to walk through the trees for three hours every day. The remaining patients were treated classically in hospital conditions.
After a month, the results in both groups were almost identical - there was an improvement in 80 percent of the patients. This experiment therefore proved that some conditions can be treated without pharmacological agents. On the other hand, other studies have shown the beneficial effect of beech forests in reducing discomfort resulting from persistent migraines and excessive stress.
Find your tree
Buk
Walks among beech trees are recommended for people exposed to stress, diseases of the circulatory system, throat and kidneys. If you put this tree leaf on your forehead, it will soothe your headache.
Birch
Helps to get rid of anger, fear and anger. Brings relief topain resulting from tension, accelerates the healing of wounds.
Birch sap, rich in minerals, potassium, magnesium, calcium and B vitamins, cleanses the body, supports the treatment of diseases of the urinary tract, liver, lungs and hyperthyroidism.
Black without
Being around him improves his mental state.
Tea from his flowers is effective in treating colds, strengthens the immune system.
Oak
A decoction of its bark heals skin diseases, and when used in sitz baths, it soothes inflammation of the reproductive organs.
Rowan
It mobilizes and allows you to get rid of addictions. It contains a lot of vitamin C (almost as much as citrus fruits), sugars, organic acids, pectins and minerals.
The active compounds contained in mountain ash have a diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antiscorbutic, laxative and astringent effect, which is beneficial in gastritis, duodenal and small intestine. Applied externally (for rubbing), it soothes muscle pain and rheumatic conditions.
Fir
It has been treated as a symbol of power for centuries. Its wood, needles and resin are used to obtain extracts for medicines against rheumatic and arthritic diseases. A siphon in water from boiled branches helps with bladder inflammation and vaginal discharge.
Horse chestnut
The bark is used to produce ointments that heal hemorrhoids and varicose veins. Its blood vessel sealing properties are used by the cosmetics industry to produce creams for "spider veins". Chestnut flower tea heals coughs and strengthens muscle tissues.
Lipa
Being around her calms down, soothes neuralgia. Linden flowers contain small amounts of essential oil, flavonoids and mucilages, organic acids, pectins, mineral s alts and substances that act like vitamin P.
This composition causes the tea to act diaphoretic and expectorant, soothes cough and runny nose. It is used in fever, colds and exhaustion. A decoction of linden flowers is used for gargling, compresses on wounds and ulcers.
Pine
Oil from pine buds is bactericidal (helps in the treatment of skin diseases), diuretic and expectorant. It is used for inhalation in case of upper respiratory tract catarrh, as it facilitates the cleansing of the bronchi.
Hugging trees
Trees produce negative ions. They neutralize negative for the organism positive ions resulting from diseases or emitted by the electronic equipment that surrounds us on all sides.
German naturalist and researcher Manfred Himmel, who has been dealing with tree therapy for over 20 years, believes that every person can experience the beneficial radiation of trees by touch and support the treatment of both mental and physical ailments: stress, headaches, circulatory disorders , rheumatic diseases.
So if we have such problems, we should go to the nearest park or forest, find a tree that is right for us and hug it tightly.
This can be done in three ways:
- lean your back against the tree and the back of your head while touching the trunk with your bare hands;
- face the tree trunk, put your forehead against it and embrace it with your bare hands;
- lie down under the tree, resting your bare feet on it.
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