The Meaningful Beauty of Flower

Most of us, assumes that the flower is only one kind of plant that serves as decoration. Shape and color that diverse, suitable as garden decorations, home, or other places. Further than that, the flower turns out to have many benefits.

Not only for the environment, flowers also have an important role in human life. What are the benefits of the other flowers? What are the examples of the beneficial of flower? Let's see,

Flowers as a peace symbol

In the 1960s, the world peace lover activists issued a statement about Flower Power. It is apparently referring to the use of flowers as a peace symbol.

Since then, any action which call themselves as peaceful action always involves flowers. Not only used by the activists, flowers are also often distributed to anyone involved in the action. No exception also to those who saw the rally.

Benefits of fresh flowers on the patient's room

One of of flower benefits could restore the patients health in hospitals, it is has been proven by the Park and Mattson in 2008. Data obtained from their research turn out the fresh flowers that placed at the patients room who have undergone surgery could make the surgery pain is much reduced.

Not only that, the patient's blood pressure and their heart rate quantitatively decreased and relatively stable. There is also psychological factor, ie the level of their anxiety, fear, and fatigue relatively down. Their mood also become more positive. Of course all these parameters compared with the patients who occupy a room without fresh flowers in it.

The same thing also expressed by researchers from Rutgers University, New Jersey. They reveal the fact that the flowers can make the elderly people's life quality is better in terms of emotions.

Benefits of fresh flowers on the dining table
The fresh flowers are placed at the dinner table, was making resident's mood become better and more controlled. This fact concluded by the researchers from the University of Wageningen, Netherlands. They made an experiment with ways to place fresh flowers on the dining table. And the result, people who eat at the table with fresh flowers on it acknowledge that fresh flowers provide a better mood than eating at the dining table without it.

In addition to the table top, fresh flowers (including green plants) are placed in the house turns out to have other benefits. This benefits is the result of research conducted by Shibata and Suzuki. According to them, the fresh flowers in the house can make all the occupants more creative in any case. Of course, this study was also based on a comparison with the house that does not keep fresh flowers in it. And based on the findings of Harvard University, the fresh flowers can make us gain better mood in the morning.

Benefits of fresh flowers in the office

Raanaas, Evensen, Rich, Sjostrom, and Patil doing the research on the effect of fresh flower on the workers performance in the office. From the results obtained fresh flower turns could improving the workers performance toward better.

It is also obtained from research at Harvard University and Texas A & M. They said that flowers provide a better impact on the health of workers, increase the commitment to innovate and be easy to get the idea.

Benefits of flowers based on the type and color
From many research that the colors of flower have different benefits. The bright color flowers could make us more relaxing. While the dark color flowers could make us more excited. Bouquet of diverse types flowers, but almost the same color make us more calm. As for the reverse, a bouquet of flower with diverse colors and types could make uplifting effect.

We often hear the expression, "say it with flowers." Here, we can interpret that whatever we mean to others could be represented by flowers. Yes, the flowers are able to express our hearts, whereas each color of flowers have diverse expressions and meanings.

For example, the azalea has abundance meaning; the white chrysanthemum means honest; the gladiolus means strong character; the hibiscus have beautiful meanings; the jasmine has graceful and elegant meaning; the lavender means distrust; the orchid means beauty; the pink roses means friendship; the red roses means love; the yellow roses means jealousy; the sunflower means admiration; the white tulip means condoning; the purple tulip means faithful, and many other flowers that also has another meaning.

Well, that's the various meaning and benefits of flowers. Let's brighten up the day with flowers. Because of the flowers, made our environment becoming more beautiful, and certainly will made us more healthy and productive. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | NIA KURNIANINGSIH | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 11042013]

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