This study deals with therapeutic elements and trying to classify them, and then finding out their relationships to forests. The therapeutic elements are divided in two groups, physically and mentally. To the physical elements belong air, water, sunlight, and place as core factors which are essential for keeping life, and five senses, physical training and medicine as necessary factors which work additionally for the core factors. The mental elements consist of cultural and psychological factors.
All of these factors are deeply related to forest environments: Forests produce fresh air and clean water through filtering, control sunlight mildly, and provide good places for living and activities. To addition, forests are full of substances doing good for healthy life, or well-being, such as something to eat, see, hear, smell and touch, and chemical components called terpene that acts as aroma, calming down physical and mental conditions, disinfection, etc. These can operate effectively upon keeping our body and mind in balance, furthermore, healing it. It is called a forest therapy, when man stays in forests filled up with these factors for healthy life or rehabilitation from disease.

ABSTRACT
  Ⅰ. 서론
  Ⅱ. 연구 방법
  Ⅲ. 결과 및 고찰
  Ⅳ. 결론
  Ⅴ. 인용문헌

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