照料花园有利于健康

Gardening does a body good. The gardener communes with nature, can sow and reap, shape the garden as he or she sees fit, relax or simply enjoy the beauty of it. Gardening's many positive aspects are also used to treat people who are ill.
花园对身体有益。花匠与日然交谈，可以播种收获，设计他或她认为合适的花园，放松心情或只是欣赏它的美观。园艺工作许多积极方面的作用还可治疗疾病。

"Gardening therapy has existed in Germany for about 20 years, though the idea is much older," notes Konrad Neuberger, chairman of the Association for Horticulture and Therapy in Germany. Psychiatrists discovered more than 300 years ago that working outdoors in the midst of nature has salubrious effects.
“园艺疗法在德国已经存在了约20年，然而该理念在更早前就提出了。”德国园艺和治疗协会主席Konrad Neuberger解释说。精神病学家早在300多年前就发现，在大自然工作有益于健康。

Today several hundred institutions in Germany, most of them psychiatric, include gardening in their repertoire of therapies.
如今，德国几百个机构，其中大部分是精神病学的，都在他们的全套疗程中包含了园艺疗法。

Among them is the Helios Clinic in the town of Hattingen, which specializes in neurosurgical and neurological rehabilitation. It has been employing gardening therapy for 18 years. The patients there are people who have had traumatic brain injuries, cerebral hemorrhages or tumor treatments.
其中，哈廷根的赫利俄斯诊所专门研究神经外科学和神经病学的康复。它采用园艺疗法已经18年了。这些病人都接受过脑外伤、脑出血或者肿瘤治疗。

"It's often during moments in the garden that they feel they're capable again," says Andreas Niepel, a Helios therapist and president of the Germany-based International Gardening Therapy Society.
“常常当他们在花园的时候他们会觉得再次有能力。”赫利俄斯诊所的临床医学家和德国国际园艺治疗协会会长Andreas Niepel说。

Gardening therapy has multiple benefits. First is the physical benefit: Weakened people strengthen their bodies while gardening. And unlike physiotherapy, patients tending to a garden derive additional benefits by creating or changing things.
园艺疗法有许多好处。首先是身体受益：体弱人士通过园艺工作使身体变得更强壮。不像物理疗法，照料花园的病人通过创造或改变事情获得额外的好处。

"They can put away flower pots and improve their gripping ability, for example," Neuberger says.
“例如，他们可以把花盆放好，提高他们使用工具的能力。”Neuberger说。

The spectrum of work in a garden is broad, ranging from simple activities such as crumbling soil to more challenging ones like trimming a hedge. There is something to do for people of all abilities. And patients with excess energy can work it off in a garden.
花园里的工作是很广泛的，从简单的活动如碎土到比较有挑战性的如装饰篱笆。也有些工作是需要人的各种能力。有多余精力的病人可以在花园里完成。

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