How do plants affect human health?
Effect of plants on human health:
Plants have positive as well as negative effects on human health.
Positive effect:
1. Plants provide us with food through which we get essential nutrients and energy.
2. It provides us with daily life essentials.
3. Plants help in cleaning the air so that we can breathe freshly.
4. They reduce sickness, stress, and anxiety.
Negative effect:
1. Food plants are sometimes treated as carriers of pathogens and harmful microbial toxins.
2. Plants like juniper and wisteria create allergic reactions in human bodies.
3. Daffodil, clivia, and agapanthus are some examples of plants that are toxic to human health.
4. The most common tobacco can lead to death if it is taken continuously. It affects the lungs directly.