Explaining the Healing Criteria of Iranian Gardens from the Perspective of Traditional Medicine

Abstract

Environment design has profound effects on mental, physical health, and behavior patterns. One of the architectural environments is medical centers that have changed in recent decades in developed countries. As purely physical and indoor environments have been replaced by indoor and outdoor environments. Outdoor gardens include healing gardens. Studies on traditional Iranian gardens show that these gardens are healing gardens. Outdoor gardens include healing gardens. Studies on traditional Iranian gardens show that these gardens are also healing gardens, so this study tried to investigate the healing criteria of therapeutic gardens in Iranian gardens from the perspective of traditional medicine to incorporate the attitudes of designing therapeutic environments in Iran towards the teachings of traditional medicine. In this comparative study, the method of data collection is documentary so that first, the impact of nature on man from the perspective of traditional medicine has been studied and then the criteria of healing landscapes in the Iranian garden have been studied from the perspective of Iranian traditional medicine using the sources of medical history and related articles. It seems that the general criteria for healing gardens in Iranian gardens are per the principles of traditional medicine and using the medical advice to patients can be more precisely designed for therapeutic gardens and used the Iranian garden model for design medical centers Because the criteria for the therapeutic gardens are general But according to the advice of traditional medicine practitioners can be more precise design according to the patients' temperament differences.