Forest Therapy – How to Create a Medicinal Forest Sanctuary

Medicine is measured in units of mercy to the human family since the beginning of time. The knowledge of medicine is important to our mind, body, and soul on a daily basis. This is true all over the world. The grassroots of traditional or folk medicine has laid down the groundwork for surgical procedures, burn wards, and multiple treatments found in both public and private hospitals all over the world today.

The knowledge and understanding of herbs is vital for the global population today. All herbs, no matter the origin, have an independent, physiological origin in a plant to protect the welfare of other species. This is a product of co-evolution. This is the real genius of plant-based DNA as it relates to human DNA, on a moment to moment basis. The plant or plant extract is injected and touches in a holistic way one or more pathways in the metabolic rhythm of the person to elicit a cure.

About 40 years ago, I wanted to take the thinking of medicine and herbalism into a different frontier. So to match my region of the ecology and climate where I live, I put in an experimental garden. This I called the North American Medicine Walk. The idea behind this is simple: all people are unique. They are one holistic unit with a skin covering that can absorb both water-soluble and gas-soluble aerosols. I wanted to use the airborne medicinal aerosols given off by medicinal plants or certain plant families to improve health. I was also interested in how chemically unrelated aerosols would boost the immune system and protect this fragile rhythm of protection in people.