The day before yesterday I met an interesting opinion of a medical journalist. He believes that indoor plants are able to regulate humidity in our home. If the humidity is low, then they evaporate water into the air, and if the humidity is high, then they suck water out of the air.
It's hard to believe in such an idea. I've never heard of such a thing. And I am well versed in the field of home air quality. This is part of my job.
And so I decided to figure out where the legs grow from this idea. We, doctors, in general, often look in those places from which legs grow.
It turned out that the idea comes from the field of interior design, in which designers believe that beautiful plants will absorb excess moisture from the bathroom. We will not consider these guys. They live there in their own world. Let's go to the scientists.
Everything is more complicated here. According to the official recommendations for ordinary mortals, if you want to lower the humidity at home, then you need to remove indoor plants. Because they increase humidity. This is a no brainer.
The next step is taken by scientists who dug into this topic and decided that some plants will not so noticeably increase your humidity at home. It's clear?
That is, scientists do not say that plants will lower moisture. They say that there are inactive plants that sit quietly in their tub and give almost no moisture. And there are crazy plants that spray moisture at a tremendous speed. It is among these two options that you need to choose your own tenants. Here I agree with the scientists.
The last stage is taken by scientists playing on a fashionable theme, who dragged in viral infections, the effect of moisture on them and the role of indoor plants in this matter.
So these irresponsible citizens quickly collected various information about plants from the top and created a theory of sucking moisture back into the leaves.
As a source of information, such freaks took research on plant life in the forest, where moisture can really be sucked into the leaves.
They also added a study of the nightlife of indoor plants, when the plants lived during the day and gave off moisture, and slept at night and gave off less moisture. Like the humidity has dropped.
The unconscious scientists pulled out this phrase "humidity has decreased" and tried to promote the idea that plants at home will suck water from the air, and the humidity will decrease. This is not even just a far-fetched theory, but a phrase stupidly pulled out of context.
In short, plants do not reduce humidity at home. They increase humidity at home. If mold grows in your corners, then open the window and remove excess plants.
Read my article about how many plants should be kept in the bedroom to purify the air.
