Forest bathing to improve your health: this therapy, common in Japan, has proven effective. The molecules released into the air by trees are good for us. In Lorraine, a team of researchers is trying to prove this using local tree species and is seeking funding.
By Rémi Brancato • Published Monday, May 25, 2026, at 7:16 a.m.
With Rémi Brancato
Journalist at France Inter
In Monthureux-sur-Saône, in the Vosges forest, the greenery dominates the view. Timothée Daguinot, head of the “Forêt d’exception” project at the National Forestry Office (ONF), guides us along this path: “We see oak, beech, hornbeam, fir, a bit of spruce, birch, ash, alder—a wide variety of tree species.”