Indoor plants not only make your house beautiful but also boost your health and well-being. Indoor garden are an easy way to bring nature into your home. Indoor plants are beneficial for cancer patient too says Lauren Garvey, LPC, CRC, NCC, a counselor and facilitator at Cancer Wellness at Piedmont. “That’s why it’s important to think about your physical environment.”
Here are some points why indoor gardening are important :
1.Improve air quality: There are many things in our homes that create air pollution. Plants also replace carbon dioxide with fresh oxygen.
According to a 1989 NASA study, houseplants can help improve air quality by removing cancer-causing chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene from the air. Another study found that the soil in potted plants can also help clean indoor air. Microorganisms in the soil of the plant help clean the air as well. Another study found that within a twelve hour period, bromeliads are capable of removing over 80% of six of the most common VOCs from the air, while dracaena can remove 94% of air-borne acetone in the same amount of time.
2.Reduse stress : Caring for indoor plants reduced psychological and physiological stress in study
participants. Interacting with plants helped suppress sympathetic nervous system activity and diastolic blood pressure. plants in your home or office can make you feel more comfortable, soothed, and natural.
3.INDOOR PLANTS BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Having indoor plants will help your immune system fight any viruses. They create an environment where you can relax and rest properly (we’ll get into in a little more bit later), and a rested mind and body generally means a stronger immune system.
This happens because plants have certain chemicals that help reduce your stress levels and this works as a natural boost to your immune system. Plus, when you’re around plants, you end up getting a lot of great chemicals that will aid you in fighting many illnesses. All of this explains why people who have indoor plants in their homes can more efficiently combat any bugs. They tend to have fewer headaches, coughs, skin issues, and even nausea.
In short, plants are powerful healers even if you just use them as decor.
4.Real plants may sharpen your attention:
Sorry, plastic plants won’t help you pass your exams. In a small study involving 23 participants, researchers
put students in a classroom with either a fake plant, a real one, a photograph of a plant, or no plant at all.Brain scans of the participants showed that the students who studied with real, live plants in the classroom were more attentive and better able to concentrate than students in the other groups.
5.Restful Sleep:
Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. It’s how they turn sunlight into food, a process called photosynthesis. Some, like gerbera daisies, keep giving off oxygen even after the sun goes down. According to a recent study, exposure to high levels of oxygen at night can promote deeper, more restorative sleep, so it’s no wonder than many scientists and doctors recommend adding houseplants to your bedroom. Put a few cheerful pots in your bedroom and the extra oxygen may help you sleep more soundly.