Why home and office plants should be

Generally, offices are decorated with posters, all kinds of certificates and can be a figurine-holder stationery, but not often seen on the table with a pot plant. Home people are more likely to grow flowers and indoor plants, but, still, not every apartment can boast this. Meanwhile, the owners of indoor plants provide many benefits, including health benefits, air purification, and even improve the concentration. This is not speculation, but the information proved by various studies.

Plants improve concentration

A study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology environment (Journal of Environmental Psychology), it has proven that the mere presence of plants in the room increases a person's ability hold the attention.

These conclusions are based on renewal theory of attention. The theory states that every person has a limited amount of force to retain attention. This margin defines the time in which you are making an effort to work and concentrate on it. And gradually, this time is reduced.

There is another type of attention that does not require control on your part. It includes, for example, when you walk in the park. Attention spontaneously flows from the rustling of leaves to the birds, watching the shadows of the branches on the paths. Such attention helps you to relax and unwind.

Scientists have shown that the effects of natural, environmental conditions such as the presence of plants in the workplace, helps to "reset" directed, controlled attention.

To test the effect of plants on the people's attention, the researchers used a test reading in which participants had to read aloud the sentence, and then to call the last word of each offers.

One group of participants took the test at the table, around which were four plants, another group - in the same room, but without plants.

All participants first performed a test to show their ability to control attention, and then another, one similar to the job, with minor changes, to see if they are able to change to the concentration.

The results showed that participants who work in the room with plants, improved the performance of the second test, while the second group of the results remain unchanged.

Thus, the plants include involuntary attention, you relax and increase your ability to focused attention, which is necessary for the job.

Plants purified air

Dr. Brill Wolverton, formerly of the Center for Space Studies. Stennis, to show the public, many of NASA research. He investigated the effectiveness of plants to purify the air in the room from the benzene, trichlorethylene and formaldehyde.

Even while working at NASA, Wolverton with a team of scientists placed popular indoor plants in closed rooms plexiglass size from 0.44 to 0.88 m3.

They were administered all three chemicals in a closed room, so that the concentration reached 15 mg / l. After 24 hours in the air leaving only the fraction of chemicals.

The number of remote chemicals is from 10 to 70%, and the possibility of leakage was only from 2.8 to 10%.

After these results, scientists repeated the test, but added to the air of the room from 0.09 to 0.39 mg / l of trichlorethylene and benzene. Although these options are still much higher than the usual amount of chemicals in the air.

15 houseplants tested were purified from 9.2 to 89.8%, an average air with efficiency - 45.1%.
Moreover, scientists have found that pots with soil without plants were removed to 20% benzene and TCE (trichlorethylene).

Of course, very few people "decorate" their pot room to the ground, and indoor plants, in addition to the ability to clean the air of harmful chemicals, help to improve the health and well-being in general.

Plants improve the health

That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the University of Kansas. Researchers placed houseplants wards surgical patients.

Patients of these chambers requested analgesic less, had a calm the heart rate and lower blood pressure. In addition, they experienced less fatigue and anxiety, and were discharged earlier than those of the chambers without plants.

The same University conducted another study that houseplants were delivered to the offices. It was observed that the number of employees diseases decreased by 60%.

Another study of the Dutch Council of goods for gardening confirmed the health benefits of plants in the office. In the workplace, we put houseplants, and watched indicators of health of employees.

It turned out that they suffer less from fatigue, colds, headaches and cough than the employees of the offices without "greening".

At least part of the endangered ailments can be attributed to the fact that the plants are well-humidify the air, mainly through the leaves.

They allocate 97% of the absorbed moisture, so it is an excellent way to humidify the air, not by arranging home basins with water.

If you do not have any plants at home or in the office, think about what you're missing. There are plants that do not require special care and conditions, and that they give in return, you have read above.

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