7 Reasons to Add Indoor Plants to Your Next Shopping List

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7 Reasons to Add Indoor Plants to Your Next Shopping List

Indoor plants or houseplants not only add aesthetic beauty to a room but also interact with the body, mind, and quality of life of the people living in the room and influence positively. The benefits of growing houseplants are well known. Following are 7 scientifically proven benefits of growing houseplants.

1. The air you breathe is always fresh

Houseplants are well known for purifying the air in the room and also helpful in fighting against the modern phenomenon of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) as poor air quality is cited as one of the factors of SBS. Reports have shown that certain indoor plants can filter toxic compounds present in the indoor air. According to studies done by NASA in 1989 concluded that 15 to 18 plants per 1,800 square foot house can clean the indoor air. Plants like the Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum), ZZ plants (Zamioculas zamiifolia) can filter pollutants like Benzene, Formaldehyde, Xylene, etc. while golden pothos (Epipermnum aureum) can remove Toluene, Benzene, CO, NO2. Aleo (Aleo vera) can filter Benzene and Formaldehyde while Chysanthemum (Chysanthemum morifolium) can remove Formaldehyde only. So, different plants can filter out different pollutants present in the indoor air, and planting indoor plants will definitely make the air more breathable.

2. Real plants may boost your focus

The snake plant or succulent your co-worker keeps cherishing on his or her cubicle is something that is worth envying. Many studies have shown that the productivity of the employees increases after the introduction of real near in the proximity of the employee. According to an article published by the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the attention capacity of participants working in plant conditions was one to two times than those who were working in no-plant conditions. So, if you want to excel in your task then befriend some of those beautiful green creatures and interact with them every day.

3. Let you forget the stress

When you take care of the plants and interact with them it gives a soothing effect and lets you forget your stress and anxiety for time being. According to an article published by the Journal of Physiological Anthropology, working with plants can suppress the sympathetic nervous system activity and diastolic blood pressure active which results in comfortable and soothed feeling. Hence, interaction with indoor plants can reduce physiological and psychological stress compared with mental work.

4. Improves mental well being

Being around plants makes you forget the stress and decreases anxiety and also increases attentiveness and memory retention capacity. Horticulture therapy (also known as social and therapeutic horticulture, STH) is a concept of using plants and gardening to improve mental and physical health. And HT has been used in the rehabilitation of people suffering from mental illness for a long time.






5. Heals illness faster

Keeping few pots of real plants in hospital rooms has shown in speed recovery of the patients in that room. According to an article published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, it is evident that patients in rooms with plants and flowers had more significant positive physiologic responses in terms of lower systolic blood pressure, and lower ratings of pain, anxiety, and fatigue than the patient in control rooms. The addition of plants in different settings of rooms can reduce fatigue, colds, headaches, cough, sore throats, and flu-like symptoms among the people staying in the room

6. Reduces noise

Are you tired of loud music next door or a couple fighting next room? Plant some Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum wallisii), Rubber plants (Hevea brasiliensis), and Weeping figs (Ficus benjamina). Plants can reduce noise by the process of absorption, deflection, or sound wave refraction. An experimental study on the noise reductive characteristics of indoor foliage plants was conducted by the College of Architecture, Hnayang Univerity, Korea to determine the acoustic absorption characteristics with and without indoor plants which resulted in a decrease in reverberation time and an increase in acoustic absorption with plants in comparison with the case without plants, indicating that indoor plants have noise-reducing performance.



 7. Makes the room more comfortable

Planting indoor plants will beautify the room and make it more lively. They can act as screens to cover the unattractive part of the room. Fragrant plants such as dwarf kaffir lime trees (Citrus hystrix) can replace the toxins-loaded artificial room fresheners with their wonderful fresh smell. Indoor plants can also act as natural humidifiers. Popular household palm like areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) releases moisture in the room.



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