Fake Poser Plants vs the Health and Wellness Benefits of Real Plants

Fake Poser Plants vs the Health and Wellness Benefits of Real Plants AOC Eye

Biophilia in Our Lives

If one is committed to biophilic design, as I’ve been always without knowing the name for my feelings, adding live plants to your living space is the easiest way to establish a thriving connection to nature. The health benefits are plentiful and based on a mile-high mountain of evidence.

Humans didn’t suddenly discover the health benefits of plants. A knowledge of medicinal and edible plants by at least some community leaders in the sacred communities of Africa was well established. If we are honest with ourselves, regardless of our skin color, most of our ancestors came from animistic cultures. They believed that all things — including plants — hold a sprit.

Even the US government forest service website writes:

Throughout human history and perhaps even before Homo sapiens evolved, there has been an innate desire to experience a direct connection with god(s), ancestors, and other inhabitants of the spirit world. When examining some of the most ancient cultures across Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas and up through time to the preindustrial age we observe many clans, sects, and tribes partaking of psychoactive and other plants for spiritual and/or medicinal uses. The uses and curative effect of these plants were strongly interconnected with ritual. For many tribal cultures, the plants in and of themselves were sacred. Supernatural powers resided in their tissues as a divine gift to humans on earth.

African Plants Also Traveled the Atlantic As Cargo

Many of America ‘s favorite plants and seedlings arrived on slave ships.

“The story of African crops is little known and poorly understood,” explained UCLA professor of geography Judith Carney in National Geographic. “To look at these plants is to engage the organization of the slave trade as corridors for the diffusion of African plants to the Americas.”

Carney has written a book In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, in which she traces the origins and trajectories of Africa’s major crops as they traveled the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships. Continue reading: Fake Poser Plants vs the Health and Wellness Benefits of Real Plants AOC Eye