The Benefits and Feng Shui Effects of Keeping a Poinsettia at Home, and Is It Suitable to Keep One If There Is a Pregnant Woman in the House

When we grow plants, our starting point is often without any utilitarian motive, simply wanting the plants to grow better. However, as the plants keep growing, our inner expectations gradually increase, so in fact growing plants is the same as raising children, though in truth they can invisibly bring us more joy than we ever expected.

What Are the Benefits of Keeping a Poinsettia at Home

1. The poinsettia has graceful branches and leaves and is ornamental

The poinsettia has graceful branches and leaves, bright colors, and a long flowering period, and it happens to bloom during the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, and Christmas. Its red color adds a festive atmosphere and also makes up for the shortage of flowers to admire during this period. Placing a poinsettia in a fairly prominent spot in the home during the holidays has a very good effect.

2. The poinsettia can match home styles very well

As the population grows, urban housing tends to become more high-rise, and people spend most of their time active indoors. Everywhere you look there are cold buildings. Placing a few pots of green plants in the home can not only bring a rich sense of life to the room, but also make people feel pleased and cheerful, with a comfortable mood. The poinsettia's distinctive red bracts are eye-catching and alluring, and can embellish the windowsill, balcony, and study, spreading red and displaying green, charming and moving. It can adapt to different home styles and complement them beautifully.

3. The poinsettia can improve home feng shui

The poinsettia has gorgeous flower colors and blooms right during the holidays, so it carries the beautiful meaning of universal celebration and wishing new life together. When used at this time to decorate places such as the home living room, in feng shui it can easily bring good luck to the family. In addition, the poinsettia also has the meaning of “oasis.” In legend, anyone born under the blessing of the poinsettia has a kind heart that comforts people. If such a heart is directed at a specific person, he (she) will immediately become your captive.

4. The poinsettia can be used as medicine

The poinsettia is cool in nature, bitter and astringent in taste, and has the functions of regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding, invigorating blood and transforming phlegm, and setting bones and reducing swelling. It has a significant effect on symptoms such as wind-cold cough, bruises, fractures, swelling and pain from falls, and external bleeding. Especially for women, it can treat irregular menstruation and functional uterine bleeding. Mashing the leaves of the poinsettia and applying them externally can also reduce swelling.

Is It Suitable to Keep a Poinsettia If There Is a Pregnant Woman at Home

If there is a pregnant woman at home, it is generally not recommended to keep a poinsettia, because the white sap flowing from its stems and leaves will irritate the pregnant woman's skin, causing redness and itching, which is unfavorable for the pregnant woman and the child. The disadvantages of keeping a poinsettia when there is a pregnant woman at home are:

1. The poinsettia stimulates the pregnant woman's nerves

When the poinsettia blooms, it is accompanied by a strong floral fragrance, which may stimulate the pregnant woman's nerves, cause adverse reactions such as headache and nausea, and also affect the pregnant woman's appetite. In severe cases, it may cause fetal instability and even miscarriage.

Therefore, during pregnancy, pregnant women had best have less contact with fresh flowers that have a strong odor, such as poinsettia, jasmine, and oleander, especially because these plants release carbon dioxide and absorb oxygen at night, which may cause the oxygen content of indoor air to decrease, so they cannot be placed in the bedroom.

2. The poinsettia can cause emotional excitement

Plants with overly bright colors, such as the poinsettia, have a stimulating effect on people's spirits and make people feel very excited when they look at them, but a pregnant woman's emotions will be more sensitive and irritable than usual. Bright colors instead play a reverse role and make the pregnant woman's emotions even more irritable.

3. The sap of the poinsettia irritates the skin

The white milky sap in the stems and leaves of the poinsettia contains a variety of toxic alkaloids. Once a pregnant mother's skin comes into contact with the poinsettia, it may cause redness, swelling, fever, severe itching, and localized papules.

4. The poinsettia can cause pollen allergies

Pollen generally contains certain chemical components. If it falls on the skin or is inhaled into the respiratory tract, it may trigger allergies.

The Flowering Period of the Poinsettia

In fact, the poinsettia is also called the Christmas flower, so everyone should know when it blooms. Basically, isn't that in winter? So I can tell everyone with great certainty that it can bloom in winter. It generally blooms from December to February of the following year, and Christmas, New Year's Day, and the Spring Festival are exactly when it blooms best. The flowers it produces at this time, together with its large red leaves, also add quite a bit of holiday atmosphere. But if you want it to bloom normally, you also need to pay attention to caring for it well in winter so that it can bloom smoothly.

The Legend of the Poinsettia

Long ago, south of Mexico City in the Americas, there was a village with fertile soil and water, abundant water sources, and highly developed agriculture and animal husbandry, where people lived a happy and peaceful life. But one spring, a mudslide suddenly broke out, and a huge rock cut off the water source. The village then began to suffer from a lack of water and drought, and the land cracked from dryness. At this time, there was a brave man in the village named Porcherima who, in order to solve the drought problem, disregarded his personal safety and chiseled away at that rock day and night. In the end, the huge rock was finally broken open, and clear water gushed out very fiercely, but because of long-term fatigue, the brave man was washed away by the flood. The villagers searched everywhere for him, but there was still no result. Time passed, and after a long while, a herdsman unexpectedly found a beautiful flower by the water, blooming in blazing red and gorgeous colors. When the villagers learned of this, they were very shocked and felt that this was very much like that brave man Porcherima, who loved to wear red clothes. So, in order to commemorate him, people gave this flower a name——Porcherima flower, which is what we today call the poinsettia.

There are actually many benefits to keeping a poinsettia, and of course this also includes its role in feng shui. Therefore, as long as we cultivate them well, what they can give back to us will be even more, far beyond our expectations. If we seek nothing and desire nothing, then what we can gain will grow exponentially.