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[in Japanese], [in Japanese]1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 223
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
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Y. AGISHI1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 225-231
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSBalneotherapy is one of the natural therapies in which subterranean products, such as hot spring water, gases, muds (peloid), as well as climatic factors are utilized as therapeutical elements. This therapy is conducted by combination of hot spring water bathing, various thermo- and hydrotherapies, physical exercises, drinking, inhalation etc. as the complex therapy. Climatherapy is a treatment through a change in the patient's exposure to the atmosphere and the climate. In Japan, “bath cure” is main form of the Balneotherapy, in which the direct effects of the hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy, water temperature, and particularly the pharmacological properties of hot spring water constituents play important roles. This therapy is a general and non-specific therapy with repeated therapeutical stimuli. The aim of the therapy is to alter the capacity for regulation and reactive functions of the organism, leading to activation and improvement of capacity of adaptability and self-healing potential. Thus, this therapy is a stimulus-reactive therapy and adaptation therapy by means of physiological principles. It should be stressed that the balneoclimatherapy can be applied as one of modern medicine before, during and after many conventional pharmaco- and operative treatment methods, co-acting with each other. The significance of the modern balneoclimatherapy has been increasingly emphasized for the purpose of the treatment and prevention of diseases and especially health promotion, in accordance with the needs and conditions of today's life in the developed countries.View full abstractDownload PDF (878K) -
—Special Reference to Homeostasis—Y. CHIBA1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 233-238
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSChronobiology is a field of biology dealing with spontaneous rhythms, particularly circa-rhythms with periods approximating the length of environmental cycle. Among them, circadian rhythms have attracted much attention and are now well-known as an essential mechanism for animals to reveal a right behavior at a right phase of the 24-h environmental cycle. The circadian rhythm is homeostatic, showing the stability in the length of period and, on the other hand, contributes to homeostasis of the physiological function such as body temperature. The chronobiological viewpoint is indispensable in biometeorology which also deals with the relation between environment and homeostasis as a main issue.View full abstractDownload PDF (717K) -
Y. FUKUOKA1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 239-245
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe global environmental problems such as acid rain, warming and so on must be viewed from the standpoints of the environmental geography in the biometeorology. Firstly, the definition of environmental geography and the ideal properties of environmental maps are described. Next, the author insists that three thoughts like filters are indispensable to the study of the environmental geography. One of them is the climatic environmental geography which is the keynote on the study of the environment related with the regional climate. Second one is the disastrous geography which could be useful for considering the causal relation between the regional climate and environmental problems. Last one is the system analysis geography which makes it easier to clarify the complex mechanism of the global environmental problems by using the system analysis like a cascading system.View full abstractDownload PDF (898K) -
Y. MIYAZAKI1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 247-252
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe concept of biometeorology was discussed from the viewpoint of forestry and forest-products research. “Comfort and pleasantness” and “health” are key words in current biometeorology. In the present paper, firstly the relationship between “forestry and forest products” and biometeorology is discussed. Secondly, the concept of “comfort and pleasantness” is considered, and thirdly, a report on the effect of forestry and forest products on humans is discussed. It is important that the relationship between “forestry and forest products” and humans, based on the viewpoints of “health” and “comfort and pleasantness”, will be elucidated in biometeorology, which is an interdisciplinary study.View full abstractDownload PDF (720K) -
M. KOSAKA1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 253-255
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSConsiderable interest is attracted to the problem on the developing an ability of thermal adaptation to hot and cold environment. Recently, most theories consider that central and peripheral inputs in thermoregulation interact at a neural level in the hypothalamus of which blood flow indicates little or no increase during fever and general heating and cooling in thermally acclimated animals (-habituation phenomenon-) . In this paper, therefore, strategy how to adapt in thermal environment was discussed from the viewpoints of thermal acclimatization.View full abstractDownload PDF (389K) -
[in Japanese]1992 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 257
Published: December 01, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2010
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