Indoor plants look good as well as provide many benefits. It improves your mood, creativity, and reduces stress and fatigue. Find out more health benefits of keeping an indoor plant in this article. Keep on reading!
Indoor plants
Breathe Easier
When you breathe, your body takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. During photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Adding plants to your home can increase oxygen levels. At night, photosynthesis ceases, and plants typically respire like humans, absorbing oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. A few plants –orchids, succulents, and epiphytic bromeliads –do just the opposite, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Place these plants in bedrooms to get refresh air during the night.
Purifying Air
Plants remove toxins from air –up to 87% of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs include substances like formaldehyde (present in rugs, vinyl, cigarette smoke, and grocery bags) and benzene. Benzene is commonly found in high concentrations in study settings, where books and printed papers abound.
Modern climate-controlled, air-tight buildings trap VOCs inside. The plants purify that trapped air by pulling contaminants into soil, where root zone microorganisms convert VOCs into food for the plant.
Releasing Water
As part of the photosynthetic and respiratory processes, plants release moisture vapor, which increases the humidity of the air around them. Plants release 97% of the water they take in. Keep several plants together, and you can increase the humidity of a room, which helps keeps respiratory distresses at bay.
Plants Against Pollution
If you live in a busy city, you will encounter pollution every day. It wreaks havoc on our skin, our hair, and most of all, the air we breathe. Pollution is not just outside. It can be in the places we call work and home, too. Sick Building Syndrome is a term used to describe symptoms experienced by otherwise healthy people working in large commercial buildings – like sudden allergies; irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat; headache, dizziness, and fatigue; respiratory and sinus congestion; and nervous system disorders. Plants absorb harmful toxins, breaking them down into gentle byproducts, and storing them in their soil to use later for food.
Back to Nature
When you feel a little low, it’s amazing what a walk in the park can do. That’s because when we get in touch with nature, reduces mental fatigue and stress while increasing relaxation and self-esteem. we spend more time indoors, we are reminded how calming it is to care for our plants, and what their growth can tell us about our own.
Not to mention plants are pleasant to look at. A key design element in any room, nothing contributes warmth and style to space the way plants do. They provide the perfect architectural element and anchor space in an organic way. And no matter your personal design aesthetic, a dose of green is a universally chic color choice. There are no set rules when it comes to decorating with plants, only a thousand possibilities.