Besides increasing oxygen levels, plants improve your health in a number of other ways:
– Plants serve as natural air purifiers, pulling harmful toxins, like formaldehyde and benzene, from the environment.
– Plants release the moisture they take in, increasing humidity in the air, which helps prevent respiratory illness and reduce the incidence of dry coughs, colds, sore throats and dry skin.
– Plants in hospital rooms have been found to speed the recovery rates of surgical patients, lower blood pressure and decrease anxiety.
