Medicinal Gardens

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Medicinal Gardens Therapeutic Horticulture

• Jon Rabe
• HORT 4000
• 5/11/05

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• Medicinal Gardens
• History
• Plants
• Therapeutic Horticulture
• Definition
• Description
• Labyrinths

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Medicinal Gardens

• Have been used for many years
• 70,000 B.C.E. - Neanderthals bones found with
  pollen from medicinal plants
• 400 B.C.E - Hippocrates postulated that illness
  was a natural, not supernatural phenomenon
• 40-90 C.E. - Dioscorides records De Materia
  Medica
• Middle Ages - Cloister gardens became common for
  medicinal herbs/remedies
• 1700s - Observations of better recovery from
  therapeutic use of plants

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Cloister Garden Plants

• St. Johns Wort
• Hollyhock
• Birthwort
• Feverfew
• Liquorice
• Meadow Clary
• Comfrey
• Avens

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Therapeutic Horticulture

• Therapeutic Horticulture the purposeful
  delivery of plant and plant-related activities
  that contribute to the measurable health and
  well-being of the individual and/or group.

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Therapeutic Horticulture

• Based on the theory and clinical application of
  horticulture to improve well-being through indoor
  and outdoor environments that stimulate the
  senses and engage the understanding of the people
  who participate with them.

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Therapeutic Horticulture

• Domains
• Physical
• Psychological
• Intellectual
• Social
• Spiritual

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Therapy Gardens in the UK today

• Normandy Community Therapy Garden
• Astley Ainslie hospital therapy garden in
  Edinburgh
• Somerset Garden

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A garden by another name

• Therapeutic garden
• Sanctuary garden
• Healing garden
• Zen garden
• Peace garden
• Spiritual garden

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Labyrinths

• Often found in a garden for meditation
• Usually related to spiritual use
• Can be made in the turf or paved in with stones

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Spiritual
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Unique designs
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