Thousands of years ago, people found that walking in the garden had the function of calming emotions and promoting rehabilitation. One of the ways that doctors in ancient Egypt treated mental patients was to let them go to the park for activities. The health-keeping function of gardening activities has been recognized by the medical community, and experts call it "gardening therapy" to protect the body and mind through gardening activities. Nowadays, horticultural therapy is regarded as an auxiliary therapy to supplement the deficiency of modern medicine, and it is an effective way to help relieve patients' pain and soothe their emotions. Are there any frail old people in your family? Then let them try gardening activities such as planting flowers or vegetables to help them rekindle their enthusiasm for life and protect their body and mind.

Gardening can bring happiness and pleasure to people, whether on a small balcony or in a private garden. The creation and spread of this kind of beauty has brought people multiple health-preserving effects. Gardening brings extensive benefits to physical and mental health. For example, planting, watering and weeding can increase physical activity and exercise muscles and joints of limbs. A large number of observations and studies have found that gardening has a good auxiliary treatment effect on neurosis, hypertension, heart disease and other diseases, especially when the above patients are relatively stable, proper gardening is more conducive to improving the functions of nervous system and cardiovascular system. In addition, it also has the function of stabilizing mood and eliminating chronic diseases such as insomnia. Calcium deficiency is more common in the elderly. Studies have confirmed that regular gardening can make people's bones strong and prevent osteoporosis. Many flowers have their special effects, which help to prevent diseases. Scientists have found that there is a special aromatic substance in the aromatic oil secreted by many plant flowers. These substances are inhaled into the lungs and input into various parts of the body, which have the functions of sterilization, anti-inflammation, diuresis and regulation of nerve center. Clinical pharmacists in China have detected many bactericidal substances from the essential oil of fragrant flowers. In addition, activities in the green environment can relieve fatigue, eliminate tension, lower skin temperature, slow down pulse, breathe evenly, and enhance the flexibility of olfactory, auditory and thinking activities.

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Horticultural therapy, called horticultural therapy in Japan and horticultural therapy in Korea, is simply defined as: gardening for treatment. More and more medical and health institutions in the United States, from hospitals to nursing homes to mental hospitals, favor "gardening therapy" and take gardening activities as a means to treat patients. It is found that "gardening therapy" can slow down the heart rate, improve mood and relieve pain, which is of great help to patients' rehabilitation.