Purpose: horse

Hippocrates argued that horse riding speeds up not only the recovery process after injuries, but also helps melancholics no less effectively, freeing them from “dark thoughts”, instilling “merry and clear thoughts”. Unfortunately, this direction in medicine for a long time did not attach importance. And only in the middle of the 20th century, in the wake of a resurgent interest in “folk healing”, they remembered about zootherapy, which was called “pet therapy” or “animal therapy”. Continue reading →