Download or read book Healing Gardens written by Clare Cooper Marcus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the healing qualities of nature have been recognized and relied on for centuries as a valuable part of convalescence, recent history has seen nature's therapeutic role virtually eclipsed by the technological dominance of modern medicine. As the twentieth century comes to a close and the medical community reacknowledges the importance of the environment to recovery, the healing garden is emerging as a supplement to drug- or technology-based treatments. Healing Gardens celebrates this renewed interest in nature as a catalyst for healing and renewal by examining the different therapeutic benefits of healing gardens and offering essential design guidance from experts in the field. Unique and comprehensive, Healing Gardens provides up-to-date coverage of research findings, relevant design principles and approaches, and best practice examples of different types of healing gardens. It begins by exploring what current research reveals about the connection between nature, human stress reduction, and medical outcomes. It then presents case studies and design guidelines for outdoor spaces in medical settings that include general, psychiatric, and children's hospitals as well as hospices, nursing homes, and Alzheimer's facilities. Historical information, literature reviews, and studies on use are included for each type of outdoor space covered, offering important insights into what works in healing gardens-and what doesn't. Generously supplemented with photographs, site plans, anecdotes, and more, Healing Gardens is an invaluable practical guide for landscape architects and others involved in creating and maintaining medical facilities, and an extremely useful reference for those responsible for patient care. A unique and comprehensive look at the therapeutic effects and design of healing gardens For more and more people, the shortest road to recovery is the one that leads through a healing garden. Combining up-to-date information on the therapeutic benefits of healing gardens with practical design guidance from leading experts in the field, Healing Gardens is an important resource for landscape architects and others working in this emerging area. With the help of site plans, photographs, and more, it presents design guidelines and case studies for outdoor spaces in a range of medical settings, including: * Acute care general hospitals. * Psychiatric hospitals. * Children's hospitals. * Nursing homes. * Alzheimer's facilities. * Hospices.
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Juliet Blankespoor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb gardens bring us deep into the heart of our medicine: when we step inside, their beauty and healing literally surround us. Blankespoor shows how to design a herb garden, and organically grow some of the most healing plants on the planet. Detailed herbal profiles, and clear instructions on transforming your garden harvests into botanical medicine and health-giving foods are also covered. -- adapted from back cover
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Deb Soule and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Healing Garden, Deb Soule, founder of Avena Botanicals, offers an inspiring guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body. Soule combines her passion for plants gardens, and healing with her extensive experience working with medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries. Her practical advice addresses each aspect of fostering a garden filled with helpful, healing plants: biodynamic gardening practices; gathering plants and setting up a drying room; and creating herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, tonics, vinegars, essences, and more. A chapter outlining eighteen medicinal herbs provides detailed information on their cultivation and healing properties. Molly Haley's colorful photography showcases Avena Botanicals' lush herb gardens in all seasons. The Healing Garden is grounded in respect for the interconnectedness of all living beings and is an eloquent plea for spiritual awareness and the wholeness of individuals, communities, and our planet.
Download or read book Therapeutic Landscapes written by Clare Cooper Marcus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and Alzheimer's patients, among others. Sections on participatory design and funding offer valuable guidance to the entire team, not just designers, while a planting and maintenance chapter gives critical information to ensure that safety, longevity, and budgetary concerns are addressed.
Download or read book Therapeutic Gardens written by Daniel Winterbottom and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For those who believe in the healing power of nature, or those who are interested in the history of therapeutic garden design and philosophies, Therapeutic Gardens is a great resource and a fascinating book.” —NYBG’s Plant Talk In Therapeutic Gardens, landscape architect Daniel Winterbottom and occupational therapist Amy Wagenfeld present an innovative approach that translates therapeutic design principles into practice. This comprehensive book uses examples from around the world to demonstrate how healing spaces can be designed to support learning, movement, sensory nurturance, and reconciliation, as well as improved health. This important book sheds lights on how the combined strength of multiple disciplines provide the tools necessary to design meaningful and successful landscapes for those in the greatest need.
Download or read book Restorative Gardens written by Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restorative gardens for the sick, which were a vital part of the healing process from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, provided ordered and beautiful settings in which patients could begin to heal, both physically and mentally. In this engaging book, a landscape architect, a physician, and a historian examine the history and role of restorative gardens to show why it is important to again integrate nature into the institutional--and largely factorylike--settings of modern health care facilities. In this unique book, Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Dr. Richard Enoch Kaufman, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr., unfold their argument by presenting the history of restorative gardens and studies of six American health care centers that cherish the role of their gardens in the therapeutic process. These institutions are examined in detail: community hospitals in Wausau, Wisconsin, and Monterey, California; a full-care mental institution in Philadelphia; a nursing home in Queens; a facility for rehabilitative medicine in New York City; and a hospice in Houston. In their comprehensive review the authors suggest that contemporary scientific understanding clearly recognizes the beneficial physiological effects of garden environments on patients’ well-being. The book ends with a plea to make gardens--rather than the shopping mall atria so often seen in newly renovated hospitals--a vital part of the medical milieu.
Download or read book Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden written by Peter Dendle and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity. The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new collection. Following a general introduction and a background chapter on Late Antique and medieval theories of wellness and therapy, in-depth essays treat such wide-ranging topics as medicine and astrology, charms and magical remedies, herbal glossaries, illuminated medical manuscripts, women's reproductive medicine, dietary cooking, gardens in social and political context, and recreated medieval gardens. They make a significant contribution to our understanding ofthe place of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice, and thus lead to a greater appreciation of how medieval theories and therapies from diverse places developed in continuously evolving and cross-pollinating strands, and, in turn, how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion, identity, and the human relationship with the natural world. Contributors: MARIA AMALIA D'ARONCO, PETER DENDLE, EXPIRACION GARCIA SANCHEZ, PETER MURRAY JONES, GEORGE R. KEISER, DEIRDRE LARKIN, MARIJANE OSBORN, PHILIP G. RUSCHE, TERENCE SCULLY, ALAIN TOUWAIDE, LINDA EHRSAM VOIGTS
Download or read book The Healing Landscape written by Martha M. Tyson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will intrigue anyone who is interested in the ability of outdoor space to heal spirit, mind and body. Includes designs and planting instructions.
Download or read book Healing Gardens written by Romy Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates how alternative therapies such as meditation, aromatherapy, feng shui, and color therapy can be put into practice in the home garden for maximum results. 80 color photos.
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Sue Minter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Sue Minter and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Gwen Nyhus Stewart and published by Regina : Nyhus Stewart Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by David Squire and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Presenting fact as well as folklore, Squire eloquently and exhaustively addresses aspects of gardening for the senses, from color and sound to fragrance and touch. As he deftly combines historical perspectives with practical considerations, Squire also provides a visual feast of alluring color photos and archival paintings and illustrations.” —Booklist.
Download or read book Healing Garden written by Marjorie Harris and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been known for centuries that plants have the power to heal the body, but their ability to soothe the spirit and refresh the senses has not always been given the same attention. Now. at a time when so many of us are seeking spiritual renewal through the natural world, comes a wonderful new book from one of our best known and most personal garden writers. Marjorie Harris' The Heading Garden is a thoughtful exploration how much gardens can restore, teach, soothe and heal our minds and souls.The Healing Garden opens with a journey into the firs healing garden -- the wilderness, moving on to a history of how and why plants have been used as medicine, and then fully exploring how contemporary "horticultural therapy" is becoming an important part of the healing process for the sick or infirm. Harris looks at how gardens affect our senses; how colors and floral scents affect our moods, and how the power of a natural view may actually help people recover more quickly.Finally, she explains how we can design our own healing gardens to reflect our own personalities and spiritual needs. Whether you crave the solitude of a "Contemplative Garden", the sensuality of a "Tactile Garden", or the abandon of a "Wild Garden", Marjorie Hams shows simple and inexpensive ways to transform even the smallest garden into a personal healing sanctuary.Written in Marjorie Harris' very personal style, The Healing Garden will open another window of pleasure for all gardeners who already enjoy their own green oasis.
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Juliet Blankespoor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and lushly photographed guide to growing and using healing plants, including recipes, from the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine This is the ultimate reference for anyone looking to bring the beauty and therapeutic properties of plants into their garden, kitchen, and home apothecary. Both informative and accessible, it covers how to plan your garden (including container gardening for small spaces); essential information on seed propagation, soil quality, and holistic gardening practices; 30 detailed profiles of must-know plants (including growing information, medicinal properties, and how to use them); foundational principles of herbalism; step-by-step photographic tutorials for preparing botanical medicine and healing foods; and 70 recipes for teas, tinctures, oils, salves, syrups, and more. Packed with sumptuous photography, this book will appeal to home gardeners who want to branch out to culinary and medicinal herbs, home cooks and those interested in natural wellness, and novice and skillful herbalists alike.
Download or read book Gardens of the Sisterhood written by Ann Marie O'Dell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the importance of blending as an Alternative Healer. Create an intriguing garden entrance and introduce flower colors, herbs, and legalized Cannabis on the healing garden pathway. Join the Slow Movement to savor every moment. Discover the elements of a Witch and Druid Garden and how ancient theory still applies today. Send long-distance Angel healing to a sick friend, pet, and natural disasters. Are you a Sarah Moses leader? Can you lead in a Crisis? Compelling photos and earthy entries make this a fast read with a cup of brew.
Download or read book The Healing Garden written by Stacey Hazlett and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever looked at a person’s garden and wondered about the process they went through to make it look so beautiful? How were they able to have been blessed with a bountiful harvest? It is an extensive process to accomplish this, and it is the same when you go through the healing process to become whole again. I found so much healing in our garden and I am honored to share what God has done for me through this experience, just as I know He will do for you if you only allow him. So, are you ready to plant some seeds?
