Application to forest medical aromatherapy using woody essential oil flavor

• Project/Area Number: 26292093
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Wood science
• Research Institution: Gifu University
• Principal Investigator: MITSUNAGA Tohru 岐阜大学, 応用生物科学部, 教授 (20219679)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 清水 邦義 九州大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20346836)
• Research Collaborator: YAMAUCHI Kosei 岐阜大学, 応用生物科学部, 助教 ; INAMOTO Tadashi 正プラス株式会社, 取締役社長
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥16,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,810,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥10,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,370,000)
• Keywords: 樹木精油 / 自律神経活動 / テルペン類 / スギ / ヒノキ / ヒバ / スギ材 / 交感神経 / 副交感神経 / 匂い刺激 / 電気生理学 / 精油 / テルペン / 肥満抑制 / ノルアドレナリン / テルペノイド

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Essential oils from Japaneses Cedar and Hinoki has well known to give a psychological ease and physiological relaxation effect to a human beings. However there are few reports about how do these essential oils work out in scientifically. Present study showed that the high volatile fractions mono-terpens and sesqui-terpenes depressed the sympathetic nerve activity of anesthesia rat when these essential oils were given to the nose of the rat.Through this experiment we have demonstrated the essential oils from Cedar and Hinoki grown in Gifu prefecture and Aomori Hiba should give a physiological and psychological effects to human and animals in scientific aspects.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 木質内装材施工空間における香りとヒトの生理心理応答 (2015)
  • Author(s): 松原理恵、光永徹、川井秀一
  • Journal Title: AROMA RESEARCH Volume: 16 Pages: 54-59
  • NAID: 40020572747
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] スギ葉及び材香気成分の吸入がラット自律神経活動に及ぼす効果 (2017)
  • Author(s): 林友香、光永徹、松原惠理
  • Organizer: 日本木材学会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州大学（福岡市）
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-17
• [Presentation] スギ葉および材香気成分によるラット自律神経活動に及ぼす効果 (2016)
  • Author(s): 林友香、光永徹、松原理恵
  • Organizer: 日本木材学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-27
• [Presentation] 針葉樹精油の嗅覚刺激が自律神経活動に及ぼす影響 (2015)
  • Author(s): 林友香、小川愛、光永徹、松原理恵
  • Organizer: 日本木材学会中部支部大会
  • Place of Presentation: 高山市
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-30
• [Book] テルペン利用の新展開 (2016)
  • Author(s): 光永 徹、松原惠理
  • Total Pages: 279
  • Publisher: シーエムシー出版