A BOUQUET of fresh flowers may be one of the healthiest gifts you can give yourself and others. Flowers and plants have been used for centuries to provide people with food, clothing, shelter, medicine and oxygen, as well as to express emotions ranging from love and support to grief.
In research with breast cancer patients, a common restorative activity like walking in a garden improved patients’ ability to focus on tasks and significantly lowered their stress levels.
Also, in one of the studies, patients recovering from gall bladder surgery who viewed plants from their hospital windows had shorter hospital stays and took fewer potent analgaesics for pain and received fewer negative nursing comments than their counterparts who viewed a building from their windows.
Another research shows that people communicate with the presence of flowers or plants and they tend to eat food more slowly when flowers are on the dining table.
• Flowers restore people from mental fatigue and enhance self esteem.
• Certain types of potted plants remove pollutants from a room’s atmosphere.
• Subtle aromatic substances of slightly fragrant flowers make your body and soul relax.
You feel refreshed when you take a walk in the garden. It is therefore easy to add a touch of freshness, beauty and wellbeing to someone’s day by sending them flowers.
Visual effect of flowers
The effect of flowers implies the colour and aromatic effects. Your colour preference reflects your mental status, the colour which makes you comfortable and heals your mind. Different colours have different effects.
Red: Raises your body temperature and blood pressure. Gives you vigour and also increases your appetite.
Pink: Makes you lively and happy.
Orange: Refreshes you mentally and also increases your appetite.
Green: Relieves tired eyes and works as a sedative.
White: Makes your mind stable.
Yellow: Cheers you up.
Blue: Decreases heart rate, blood pressure and also helps you to go to sleep.
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