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Journal of Agriculture ›› 2017, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (2): 63-67.doi: 10.11923/j.issn.2095-4050.cjas16090010

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Plant Environment: Its Effect on Human Physical and Mental Health

  

  • Received:2016-09-22 Revised:2016-11-15 Accepted:2016-11-21 Online:2017-02-23 Published:2017-02-23

Abstract: Plant environment has important significance for human physical and mental health, healing gardens and horticultural therapy are mainly used to promote the health of people both in physiological and psychological aspects. In order to explore the effects of plant environment on human physical and mental health, the paper described the concept of healing garden and horticultural therapy, and analyzed the relationship between healing gardern and horticultural therapy, reviewed the study on the relationship between plant environment and human physical and mental health both at home and abroad in recent 15 years. In China, this research field start later than aboard, which is currently in the transformation process which from the theoretical exposition, the popularization of the mechanism to the system of study. In the future, it is still needed to increase investment and advancing methods for the research in this field, to fill the gap between China and the international level in the field.