Introduction
The construction of healing garden for patients, as a part of treatment sites, has existed since the Middle Ages, and such gardens have always been parts of hospitals, sanatoriums, rehabilitation centers, and in recent years, public parks. There is a fundamental difference between healing and treatment. It recommend to deal with the patient with medicine, while in healing, which is a multi-dimensional process, various factors including psychological and physical factors are consider. Psychological factors are related to spiritual, mental, emotional and social needs.
The healing gardens have a special place in Iran. These gardens traditionally use to treat mental illnesses. Some important features of healing gardens in Iran are: Healing gardens build in a calm and natural environment with trees, flowers and running water to help improve the mental state of patients. In the healing gardens, patients allow to roam freely and explore the space to reduce their stress. With years of experience in the field of wellness tourism, Pars Med Travel Agency has played a significant role in wellness tourism, which has been accompanied by complete customer satisfaction.
What is a healing garden?
Healing gardens are a collection of relaxation for the body, mind and spirit. Healing is a process and emphasizes the health of human body and soul. The types of healing can be divided into spiritual healing, social healing, physical healing, emotional and emotional healing. Healing is freedom from the physical world, illness and emotional trauma, and it is considered a factor to reduce nervous pressure and increase people’s comfort level.Healing is a feature that provides mental health and reduces stress and increases rejuvenation.
Considering the importance of the impact of the environment and landscape on human health, the question arises as to how to create an environment that has the greatest impact on health. It seems that such an environment should be able to reduce the stressful effects of the environment as much as possible. Therefore, a healing garden is an environment that has special elements, features and qualities to reduce tension and increase the health level of people and is known as a health-building environment.
The secret of the healing garden
A healing garden is a space where human mental health is ensured by reducing stress and nervous pressure. Natural environments are one of the most important resources that were considered to be the manifestation of healing for humans throughout history. Healing gardens reflect individual feelings, cultural teachings and social security.These gardens have their roots in Iran, Egypt, Japan and other eastern countries and have existed under the names Pardis, Zen Gardens, Thought Gardens, Monastic Monastery Gardens, and Al-Birnet. In the past, healing environment meant spiritual solitude next to pristine natural landscapes, while today this term mostly refers to spaces in hospitals and clinics. The relationship between landscapes and health has been considered in different ways in different cultures.
In semantic cultures that look to heaven as their ideal model, the garden is a reflection of heaven and a manifestation of healing. The healing garden causes healing and reduces the psychological pressure of everyday life through the communication it establishes with humans through different senses. The secret of the healing garden’s success lies in the human’s innate attraction to nature, the feeling of life and peace.
Human emotions
In the first place, humans establish a physiological relationship with the environment, stimuli and environmental conditions through their senses. Man’s relationship with his surroundings is a function of multiple senses. Therefore, in order to create an effective space that establishes a favorable relationship between humans and the environment, it is necessary to pay attention to the way the environment perceived through the senses. In an Iranian garden, human senses are stimulated by the elements and beauties of the garden. Healing gardens can have positive effects on human senses:
– Vision: The green and natural environment of the garden can reduce eye stress. Colors and natural scenery are soothing to the eyes.
Hearing: Soft sounds of the natural environment, such as the sound of wind and birds, reduce hearing stress.
– Smell: pleasant smells like flowers and soil can reduce mental stress.Touch: contact with soft natural surfaces such as grass and trees reduces muscle tension.
– Taste: The smells and sights of the garden can improve the mood and state of mind.
In general, gardens have a positive effect on all human senses by providing a sense of peace and balance and helping to improve mental health.
These stimuli are so scattered on the level of the garden, and the general purpose of the healing garden is to achieve communion with nature, which exists in the form of tension in the human body. Plants in the Iranian garden are known as the most important element and the most basic shaping and decorating factor and they are used for different purposes such as shading, yielding, and decorating the garden.
Healing Iranian gardens
The overall goal of an Iranian garden is to collect and live together with nature. Nature in Iranian gardens provides a basis for human enjoyment. A garden is an environment that can foster the cultivation of spiritual powers and intuitive reflections and knowledge of the heart.It is a soothing environment for the human psyche and suitable for building his character and existence. Man’s communication with the environment with the help of the five senses provides an opportunity for experience and a sense or senses of the audience awakened and finally brings him to balance along with the five senses. In Iranian gardens, healing with its physical and semantic elements such as the presence of water, plant planting system, spatial diversity, axes of movement and hierarchy in a way arouses human senses and with the help of these factors creates a sense of peace and comfort.
The best healing gardens in Iran
Iranian Garden in Tehran
This garden, which is one of the most beautiful and famous gardens of Tehran, is located in the Se district of Tehran. The unique design of this garden, along with the flowers and its wonderful atmosphere, has increased the attractiveness of life in this area. This garden has an area of about 3 and a half hectares. You can see tulips, 150-250-year-old trees of cypress, elm, acacia, walnut, etc. in this garden. This gardenis divided into eleven different sections with names such as paradise one and two, peace, solitude, etc. In this way, you will get to know its different parts while visiting this garden.
In 2001, this garden was registered as one of the most beautiful gardens in Iran on the list of national works of our country. This garden belonged to a famous Qajar family, which after many years prepared by Mokhtari with the design of an Iranian garden and made available to the public of Tehran. From the middle of April to the end of May, this garden is filled with the beauty of flowers and wonderful plants. This garden has several different entrances such as east, west, and south. Also, there is a library section, playground, sports field, pavilion, and pavilion in this garden.
Eram Healing Garden in Shiraz
This garden, which is also known as the botanical garden, is one of the most attractive places in Shiraz for spring sightseeing. According to the remaining documents, the date of this Iranian garden dates back to the 10th or 11th century of Hijri and the Seljuk period. Of course, this building was renovated by the kings and elders of Shiraz until the Qajar era, after which the current architecture has not changed. This building contains works and architectural models such as the capitals of Persepolis or the works of the Shahnameh. For this reason, it is one of the most beautiful and famous Iranian gardens in the world. This garden is located on Eram Boulevard in Shiraz. Be sure to visit this garden in spring.
Fin Kashan Garden in Kashan city
This garden is one of the prominent and historical gardens of Kashan. This garden designed by Ghiyasuddin Jamshid Kashani during the Al Boyeh era. Later, he became known and famous because of the murder of the Iranian minister. Of course, the current design and architecture of this garden go back to the Safavid era, which was established by the order of Sheikh Baha’i. If you visit Kashan in May to see rose-water harvesting, be sure to visit Fin Garden. In the meantime, don’t forget to pray for the great soul of Amir Kabir. This garden is located on Amir Kabir Street.
Daulat Abad healing garden in Yazd city
This garden on the list of famous Iranian gardens registered by UNESCO. Daulat Abad Iranian Garden is located in Rajaee Shahr Street in Yazd. In addition to being a garden, this garden also contains various buildings such as Badgir Bagh Daulat Abad, Behesht Ayin, Water Anbar, Lookout Tower, Harem Sera and Caravanserai. It’s not bad to know, the highest and tallest clay windmill in the world is this windmill. This building build by Bafqi, who know as the Great Khan.
Bagh Abbas Abad Gorgan
Bagh Abbas Abad is known as one of the other gardens registered with UNESCO. This garden is located in Gorgan city and Behshahr city. This garden has different parts such as a water mill, palace, bath, lake, and two towers. This building built for the first time in the Khargoran region by the order of Ah Abbas Safavi. Perhaps this garden is considered one of the most attractive famous Iranian gardens due to its interesting architecture and design. The hectare of this Iranian garden is ten thousand square kilometers. Pottery and brick are the main materials used in the construction of this building. This garden is one of the largest non-desert gardens in Iran. This garden is located near the lake and the attractive mountains of Abbas Abad.
Conclusion
Pars Mod Travel, as an Iranian travel agency, provides health and recreation tours in Iran’s therapeutic and healing gardens. This agency has planned a variety of tours in the best gardens and medicinal areas of the country to provide modern therapeutic experiences and traditional ways of us Iranians in the field of healing and improve mental and physical health. Pars Mod Travel, with its years of experience in providing health travel services and the medical tourism industry, can provide foreign and domestic travelers with the best facilities and in a specialized manner along with local therapists in these healing trips.
