7 Must Have Houseplants

These seven houseplants help remove toxins and pollutants in your home.

House plants can bring a warm feeling and a decorative look to our homes. These seven house plants are not listed under the "poisonous plants" list, but as a preventive step, please treat them as a common threat to our children and pets.

Houseplants can rid the air of the organic chemicals and toxins that cause asthma and other ailments. They are also proven to reduce stress and improve our mental well-being. We can benefit from houseplants since they can remove toxins, pollutants, and carbon dioxide. Keep some of these green nearby.

Snake Plant

These plant is practically indestructible, and it will remove toxins in rooms where no other plants will grow, such as in areas with no windows. Have one in your work cubicle or any other room that has limited sunlight.

Gerbera Daisy

Gerbera is superior in removing the benzene, known as carcinogen. It tolerates shade, and prefers moisture and well-drained soil.

Christmas Cactus

This plant gives off oxygen at night while most plants produce oxygen during the day; it is perfect for your bedroom, family room, or other spots that get a lot of evening action.

Golden Pothos, also known as Devil's Ivy

According to NASA studies, this is another plant that placed in the top three for houseplants that remove formaldehyde from indoor air.

Rubber Plant

It is the best at removing indoor chemicals, such as formaldehyde, found in particleboard furniture and upholstery, benzene and ammonia. The rubber plant is also a great humidifier. Keep one anywhere you need a pretty plant that pumps moisture into the air.

Mauna Loa

You see lot of these fragrant flowers in the mall. They are borne enclosed in a large, oval, white spathe. They preferred well-drained soil, and moisture.

Spider Plant

As the plant mature, they send out these star shaped flowers that give the appearance of spider dangling. This spider plant is placed on the top five house plants that are efficient at the removal of formalhydehyde from indoor air.

These indoor houseplants are easy to care for, and they can also purify your indoor air. Since I don't have green thumbs, I thought I will get some of these plants for myself, especially if they help reduce some toxins inside our home.

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ADD: by Kachina This is why You NEED to Get These Plants and More...

Ninety four percent (94%) of all respiratory ailments are caused by polluted air according to the American Medical Association, which also reported that one-third of our national health bill is for causes directly attributable to indoor air pollution such as toxic mold damage and black mold problem.

The U.S. Government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns people that "Most people are aware that outdoor air pollution can damage their health but may not know that indoor air pollution can also have significant effects. EPA studies of human exposure to air pollutants indicate that indoor air levels of many pollutants may be 2-5 times, and occasion more than 100 times, higher than outdoor levels. These levels of indoor air pollutants are of particular concern because it is estimated that most people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors. In recent years, comparative risk studies performed by EPA and its Science Advisory Board (SAB) have consistently ranked indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health."

Black mold and toxic mold problem are causes of Indoor Air Pollutions and Indoor Water Pollutions. Toxic mold or black mold can be in any indoor places like home, offices and buildings. It can be behind those beautifully painted walls in the office, nice-colored carpets, cabinets, walls, ceilings and even in cleanly-maintained kitchen at home. They are most likely producing on these parts of your home and offices and it should not be taken for granted because it is a serious problem which can cause mold damage. When molds are growing on some part of your home, it is like a cancer, it can spread all over your home through its mold spores and before you know it, it has already wrecked your entire house. Mold sucks out the strength of your home and then make your entire dwelling place dangerous to live in due to toxic mold contamination problem.

The worst thing is that toxic mold can lead to severe mold health problem. One of the television shows like 48 Hours which is hosted by Dan Rather, have already featured the devastating effects of toxic mold problem. It can prompt you to leave your most precious home because of contamination. When these molds such as the most common Stachybotrys, is everywhere in your house, there is a great tendency that you'll breathe toxic mold spores which are spreading in the air and can lead to major health problem like loss of memory and skin diseases. Toxic mold inhalation has been found to result in allergenic reactions, serious breathing difficulties, memory and hearing loss, dizziness, flu-like symptoms, and bleeding in the lungs. One of these devastating effects had already happened in the Cleveland Outbreak wherein many infants suffer from Pulmonary Hemosiderosis-a severe bleeding of the lungs caused by inhalation of toxic Stachybotrys mold. Melinda Ballard and her 3-year-old son were forced to leave their 11,500 square-foot Texas dream house because of toxic mold contamination.

Mold Symptoms and Health Problem

The top mold health symptoms are the following, in alphabetical order. A mold victim may experience one or more symptoms, separately or simultaneously---

a allergies

a asthma

a bleeding lungs

a breathing difficulties

a cancer

a central nervous system effects

a colds, recurring and with decreased resistance to infection

a coughing and resulting sore lungs/chest from excessive coughing

a coughing up blood

a dandruff problems [chronic] that don't go away despite use of

anti-dandruff shampoos

a dermatitis and skin rashes

a diarrhea

a eye and vision problems

a fatigue [chronic, excessive, or continued] and/or general malaise

a feeling lost or "disconnected" from what's happening around you

a flu symptoms

a hair loss

a headaches

a hemorrhagic pneumonitis

a hives

a hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis,

farmers lung disease)

a irritability

a itching of the nose, mouth, eyes, throat, skin, or any area

a kidney failure

a learning difficulties or mental functioning problems or

personality changes

a memory loss or memory difficulties/Alzheimers-like symptoms

a open skin sores and lacerations

a organic dust toxic syndrome

a peripheral nervous system effects

a redness of the sclera (white of your eyes)

a runny nose (rhinitis), clear, thin, watery mucus from your nose may

appear suddenly, or thick, green slime coming out of nose (from

sinus cavities)

a seizures

a sinus congestion, sinus problems, and chronic sinusitis

a skin redness

a sleep disorders

a sneezing

a sneezing fits (more than three sneezes in a row, happening often)

a sore throat

a tremors [shaking]

a verbal dysfunction [trouble in speaking]

a vertigo

a vomiting