Why indoor plants?

Why would someone invest in indoor plants? Well there are a great plenty of reasons. For starters, the amazing health benefits and stress reduction benefits. Plants are able to improve your mental and physical health, without you even realizing it. It allows you to overall feel better and allows the room to feel lighter with less tension, this blog shares some great insights on indoor plants and its health benefits.

    Stress Relief

One of the most popular and beneficial reasons that you should have an indoor plant is for the major stress reduction. Having indoor plants such as the peppermint plant (Mentha Piperita), the chamomile flower (Chamaemelum Nobile), and the Bonsai Tree (Adenium Obesum). These plants along with others have proven to relieve stress and help people think clearly. Plants such as the Bonsai Tree have been implemented in many different zen gardens that people visit to have a spiritual experience and to have a weight lifted off their shoulders. Well, how do plants actually relieve your stress? Plants bring a balance within your house and workspace. In order for Feng Shui to begin, you have to have a balance within your home, and having plants can bring that balance, and help reduce stress.Caring for and nurturing plants is known to actually relieve your stress. Generally, caring for these plants help you get in touch with nature, and for many people who witness  the beauty of nature is a very potent and powerful stress reliever

Breathing Better

    Plants are very helpful to the environment, in ways that cannot be acknowledged from our perspective. Plants provide warmth and shelter for animal wildlife all around the world, they provide food for the ecosystem, and absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and release oxygen for us to breathe. Unhealthy air and chemical pollutants seep into your home and workspace, without you realizing it. A very natural and very healthy way to combat these volatile pollutants are indoor plants. Plants go through cellular respiration, which all living things go through.Aerobic  Cellular respiration is a way to breathe and make energy. For humans we use 6O2+C6H12O2 (Glucose) to create H20+Adenosine Triphosphate(ATP or energy)+CO2(carbon dioxide. Plants also go through aerobic cellular respiration, but for them it is a bit different. Their formula is O2+C6H12O2 to H20+ATP+O2. You see plants are autotrophs. That means that they produce their own food (which is the glucose carbohydrate) during photosynthesis which is a completely different process that occurs in the chloroplast of the plant cell. Photosynthesis is  glucose, carbon dioxide, and light energy to make glucose. But, when plants breathe, they release more oxygen than they use. We breathe in oxygen. So, the oxygen released from the plants is used by us which is beneficial for us. Some very good air purifiers are Aloe Vera, Spider Plant, Snake Plant, Peace Lily, Chrysanthemum, and the Bamboo Palm.That's why you feel better when you go outside and take a deep breath.

A Healthy Balance

    Many plants are known to bring balance and zen to a house, and a balance to your personal health. Plants like the Bonsai Tree, English Ivy, and the Ficus Tree are known to bring a balance throughout your house. They provide vibrational energies that are able to allow all of the energies in your house to balance and out, which provides a zen and feng shui. These vibrational energies from these plants have also been implemented into therapies for health disorders. Physically people who have the common cold or some form of disease in your sinuses, have had lesser symptoms with plants such as the Spider Plant. Symptoms such as coughing, sense of pain, fatigue, and other symptoms are reduced. Overall, if you have these plants, your necessity for sick leave will reduce by 20-60%. Having plants can also help your mental health. Did you know that horticulture indoor plants have been implemented in therapies for diseases like dementia, schizophrenia, depression, and people with a long term stage of cancer. Plants have scientifically proven to help your memory, anxiety, and improve your overall attitude. Plants can help reduce the symptoms of the common cold by 30% by absorbing dust and chemicals in the air into its own tissue and breaking it down in the non-harmful factors. At the same time these plants help disorders like depression. People who have depression can care for plants which gives them meaning in life. So, if you have the opportunity by making your life so much better, why don't you. What is the harm?

Why Not Indoor Plants?

    Now you know all of the benefits of having indoor plants. Why not get these plants. You can get plants according to what you want. If you want cleaner air, then you can invest in the Snake Plant. If you want to balance the energies in your house, then you can go out and buy the Bonsai Tree. If you want a subtle beauty of nature and an easy maintenance plant in your house or workspace, then you can get the Dumb Cane. There are so many plants out there, and one might just be perfect for you and your personal health. There are countless benefits.

References

-CNPS HORTICULTURE

-American Society for  Horticultural Service

-Little Things

-Healthline

-One Green Plant

-Life Hack

  Blog by Dhruv Singh