How crystal botany is linked to wellness

Crystal Botany is a new and fascinating wellness trend which work on a principle that houseplants and crystals are both organic elements that together can bring positivity and help in improving health and wellbeing.

Crystal botany traces its roots to ancient learning but now it have made its biggest comeback and it’s trending on social media. According to Google Trend data from March 2020 to May 2021, the searches for crystal healing and plantation have surged by 262%.

However, it has been gaining interest since April 2020, when Tanya Lichenstein, an American writer, illustrator, and houseplant enthusiast, published her first book, Cosmic Botany. This book discusses about the combinations of plants and crystals that can help you lower blood pressure, improve sleep, enhance productivity, feel calm, improve air quality, improve concentration and boost energy.

It is also believed that plants boost our immune system and reduce stress especially during the pandemic times, when the anxiety and stress level are high due to various reasons.

What is Crystal Botany?

Crystal botany is carefully placing of a crystal or a group of crystal with plants. Plants bring their energy out of the earth, whilst crystals vibrate and self-generate and together this sustainable partnership helps plants growth and brings positivity and health benefits into your life.

It is believed that it if a crystal such as Carnelian and Quartz when placed carefully with plants; they can transmit the natural energy of the plants into the atmosphere of your home.

The combination of plants and crystals can be placed outside and in your home, hospitals, schools, workplace and hospitals.

Different crystals are believed to possess various healing properties and when placed with plants they can are used for different purpose. The crystals are cleansed and programmed before planting to focus and empower their energy.

How to use crystals?

Let’s take a closer look at some crystals that you can use with your home plants:

• Clear Quartz: It is the most popular gemstones used in holistic healing with high vibrations of energy. It also boosts energy and emotions and stimulates growth and promotes healing.
• Moss Agate: It is a light green coloured stone that promotes a connection to the earth and has grounding energies, which enhance balance and promotes health and vitality in your indoor garden.
• Green Adventurine: It can come in a range of colours from light green to dark green, which absorbs negativity and calms stress.
• Rose Quartz: It is known for bringing unconditional love and strength in relationships with circulation-boosting properties.
• Tree Agate: It has beautiful streaks and blotches of deep greens, whites on it. It has properties of creating calmness, emitting harmonious energies that reduces negativity.
• Amethyst: Amethyst is known for their overwhelming ability to calm and help relieve anxiety.
• Malachite: It represents fertility and abundance which promotes new growth and transformation. Malachite contains various hues of green.
• Moonstone: It is a clear to cloudy white gemstone which promotes fertility and health. It also adds energy of peace and relaxation.

How Crystal Botany can help you

• Enhance Productivity: According to researchers and experts, plants can enhance productivity by 15% and a green workplace increases employees’ work engagement by making them more cognitively, physically and emotionally involved in their work.
• Having plants in your home can reduce anxiety and depression: Plants helps in calming down your anxiety and stress. Houseplants make our homes and surroundings less toxic as it purifies the air and reduces any toxins.
• Improve concentration: Researchers believed that indoor plants improve concentration level and help in better life.
• Working with plants can be therapeutic: Gardening can help in overcoming various mental and physical illnesses and increase the feeling of well-being among people with anxiety, depression, and other conditions.
• Crystal planting may help you recover from illness faster: Surrounding yourself with plants may speed your recovery from and give the sense of calmness, and positivity. Research reveled that people suffering from several kinds of surgery needed less pain medication and had shorter hospital stay than people who weren’t looking at greenery during their recovery period.
• Improve the quality of indoor air: Indoor plants help to freshen the air naturally and improve wellbeing. Some of the most effective plant species are: Boston fern, areca, lady, dwarf date, bamboo palms, rubber tree, spider plant.
• Improve your whole outlook on work- researchers surveyed over 440 Amazon employees in India and US and found that working in office with lots of plants increased their job satisfaction and more commitment to the organisation.

The bottom line

Surrounding yourself with plants and crystals can be a source of pleasure and positivity. Indoor gardening has many health benefits such as it help in reducing stress, boost productivity, concentration and creativity. Placing crystals with plants can provide more benefits, green stones are most often used to represent the earth and in garden healing, you can use any stones that you feel a special connection to or just like. Rhyolite and Citrine adds energies of fortitude, perseverance, balance and promotes happiness and positivity. In fact, crystals like onyx and obsidian repel pests. Whichever stones you use, gemstones and gardening can make your beds and containers stand out.