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Title: 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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