Richaritha Gundlapalli
Board Certified Integrative and Holistic Physician, USA
Title: Vitamin G: the medicinal aspects of green space and forest medicine (shinrin yoku)
Biography
Biography: Richaritha Gundlapalli
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 - "The forest". This presentation introduces the audience to the founding principles of “ShinrinYokuâ€, 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.