If you want to be happy all your life, make you gardener ", say an old Chinese proverb. And to garden would also contribute to preserve or to improve health, according to an analysis of several studies, achieved by Agriculture and Agroalimentary Canada.
The experts especially bent on the kindness of the hortithérapie. that they define like the "use of the plants and the activities of gardening in order to improve the physical and psychic" state – on health. They estimate that the hortithérapie would contribute to preserve or to improve health while offering some possibilities to make the exercise, to increase his / her / its suppleness, to improve his / her / its coordination and his / her / its balance, to acquire physical strength, to relieve his / her / its stress, to relieve the depression.
According to the results of a survey, the gardeners valued their general state of health to a level superior to one of the people that did not garden. The 220 participants who took to regularly to the joys of the digging and weeding the estimated, in 75% of the cases, to have energy sufficiently to face the imperatives of the daily life. This proportion descended to 57% among the 223 subjects that did not garden.
A soothing effect on patients and prisoners
He / it seems that there is not that of the plants that push in a garden: one could also cultivate there the esteem of oneself, the optimism, the friendship, the creativeness, the satisfaction, the incentive … In a British psychiatric institution, the gardens are part of the treatment of the patients. One created a sensory garden, an arboretum and a collective garden there. Of what to procure patients to the relaxation of the places where they can find serenity and to provide them the opportunity to take to the digging or the weeding of the flower-beds. In some jails, one also observed that the gardening had a soothing effect and that it permitted to reduce the number of aggressions between prisoners.
The kindness of the plants on health
Even though one does not garden, the plants can have beneficial effects on our health. According to the authors of the report, the presence of plants in a person’s environment would contribute, among others, to reduce his / her / its level of stress.
One noted that the presence of ornamental plants in the rooms of exams entailed a reduction of the anxiety among students of the collegiate. The same phenomenon has been observed in middle of work: the presence of plants would reduce the systolic arterial tension and would improve the productivity.
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