Horticultural Therapy And Application In Gardens

Horticultural therapy, is a very effective way to strengthen self-immunity, ease pressureand promote endocrine circulatory system by landscape planning and horticultural operation.Patients will get feelings of joy, relax, peace, pleasure and confidence, thus achieving the goalof bodily rehabitation and health care. This activity is a kind of normal dialogue with nature.This paper expanded on this subject and made a further study of the problem ofway of therapy and functions, using4types of research methods: document retrieval, case study, interdisciplinary research and on-the-spot investigation. The author collected the information and research from domestic and abroad and carried some futher researchin related subjects,so as to deepen the theory of horticultural therapy,succeeding in systematically stating the objects,methods and effects of it.The paper according to the characteristic of its patients comes up with7rules that should be obeyed in application design,and states in detail a few suggestions about the application among nursing home,hospital,disaster area,jail,school,botanical garden,militaries,rehabilitation center and familyand so on,contributing to futher development of horticultural therapy.At the end of thepaper,the auther turns theory into practice,and succeeded in applying the core concept of it to ZhouShan elderly welfare center programThe conclusion of paper:1. The paper classifies horticultural therapy into two classes:static and dynamic therapiesaccording to it’s methods,and gives a much more accurate classes to both methods,such asstatic therapy is classified into botanical therapy and waterscape therapy,of which botanicaltherapy benefits patients with something like color,smell,and texture.2. The paper based on former studies reinterprets the positive effects systematically in theaspects of psychology,physiology and sociology,with definite recognition to the contribution ofhorticultural therapy. 3. The paper,whose bases are former landscape design principles, in view of theparticulities of the group,gives7design rules for the application of horticultural therapy inparks,villages or streets,and do practice the horticultural therapy.4. The paper comes up with some targeted suggestions on fields related to horticultural therapy,and it gives references to the application of horticultural therapy among nursing home,hospital,disaster area,jail,school,botanical garden,militaries,rehabilitation centerand family and so on.5. This paper applies horticultural therapy theories to the real case of elderly welfarecenter in ZhouShan,in which space is divided into six functional districts based on the demandof elderly groups both physical and psychological, including Entrance area,theme squarearea,Grow-Self area, health-care Fragrant area,exercise area,waterscape area and restingarea,from which elderly people will do benefit furthest and further researches could get enoughexperience and guidance.