Articles
Horticultural medicine toward integrated medicine beyond horticultural therapy or therapeutic horticulture
Article number
1356_44
Pages
359 – 366
Language
English
Abstract
In recent years, the number of patients with dementia and chronic diseases has increased, and there is increasing interest in integrative medicine (IM) to improve the mind and body of such patients.
IM is a medical system that combines western medicine (WM), which treats the patient’s local pain immediately, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), which treats the patient’s mind and body holistically and slowly.
Comprehensive treatment of the patient’s mind and body can be achieved by supplementing or substituting the insufficient effect of WM with CAM. Horticultural therapy (HT) is one of the CAMs.
The current state of the medical system that integrates WM and HT can be explained by the rhetoric of gears.
WM with explicit treatments such as oral medications, surgery and radiation was shown by cog wheel.
HT with insufficient scientific basis for mechanism and effect was shown on the wheel.
The cogs indicate the presence or absence of definite treatment, and the rhetoric means that WM and HT cannot be integrated.
In order to integrate HT treatment with WM, it is necessary to increase the cogs of HT wheel.
In a previous study, a task was designed to reproduce a 3D flower arrangement from 2D photographs that activate computational cognition and working memory.
In our previous experiment, this task increased cerebral blood flow in the elderly with moderate dementia.
The task whose mechanism and effect were clarified in this way was called the functional horticultural task (FH-T) and was positioned as one of the cogs.
HT, which has evolved into a cog wheel, is defined as horticultural medicine (HM), and its new concept makes it possible to integrate with WM. In this research, we propose the concept of HM and its importance.
IM is a medical system that combines western medicine (WM), which treats the patient’s local pain immediately, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), which treats the patient’s mind and body holistically and slowly.
Comprehensive treatment of the patient’s mind and body can be achieved by supplementing or substituting the insufficient effect of WM with CAM. Horticultural therapy (HT) is one of the CAMs.
The current state of the medical system that integrates WM and HT can be explained by the rhetoric of gears.
WM with explicit treatments such as oral medications, surgery and radiation was shown by cog wheel.
HT with insufficient scientific basis for mechanism and effect was shown on the wheel.
The cogs indicate the presence or absence of definite treatment, and the rhetoric means that WM and HT cannot be integrated.
In order to integrate HT treatment with WM, it is necessary to increase the cogs of HT wheel.
In a previous study, a task was designed to reproduce a 3D flower arrangement from 2D photographs that activate computational cognition and working memory.
In our previous experiment, this task increased cerebral blood flow in the elderly with moderate dementia.
The task whose mechanism and effect were clarified in this way was called the functional horticultural task (FH-T) and was positioned as one of the cogs.
HT, which has evolved into a cog wheel, is defined as horticultural medicine (HM), and its new concept makes it possible to integrate with WM. In this research, we propose the concept of HM and its importance.
Authors
S. Mita, T. Hayashi
Keywords
complementary and alternative medicine, group-based treatment, personalized medicine, functional task, medical strategy
Groups involved
- Division Landscape and Urban Horticulture
- Division Horticulture for Human Health
- Division Greenhouse and Indoor Production Horticulture
- Division Sustaining Horticulture in a Changing World
- Division Precision Horticulture and Engineering
- Division Vegetables, Roots and Tubers
- Working Group Landscape Horticulture
- Working Group Urban Horticulture
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