Is the claim that cactus balls protect against radiation true?

Can cactus balls prevent radiation? The answer is no,cactus balls cannot protect against radiation, especially electromagnetic radiation. Some office workers, especially those who spend a lot of time around computers, may have heard that placing a pot of cactus balls beside a computer desk can reduce electromagnetic radiation and protect human health, and many people believe it. However, this is indeed a rumor, an outright rumor.

Cacti grow in deserts with intense sunlight and can withstand damage from sunlight and ultraviolet rays. But what sunlight produces is a kind of “radiant energy”, which is different from the radiation rays produced by computer screens or other electrical appliances. Radiation rays are a kind of energy wave that travels in a straight line. At present, no substance can make radiation rays turn, and the saying that they are “absorbed” is obviously inaccurate too; it should be changed to “blocked”. So far, no research report has demonstrated that cacti are better than other plants at absorbing radiation rays. Therefore, placing a pot of cactus beside a computer to absorb radiation and reduce harm to the body is entirely inferred and has no scientific basis.

Because the cactus ball's original living environment was in the desert, exposed all day to intense sunlight, and because water was scarce there, even its leaves turned into spines. However, radiation produced in the natural environment is a kind of energy, and cactus balls can absorb and use this energy, but once a cactus ball is placed in an environment of electromagnetic radiation, the cactus ball is helpless and even less able to absorb it.

Everyone knows that radiation travels in a straight line. At present, there is no effective technology that can make radiation turn. If there really were something that could protect against radiation, it should also be a kind of barrier between people and the radiation source, rather than absorption. Assuming that cactus balls could absorb radiation, if you merely place a pot of cactus balls beside a computer, it would still have no effect at all on radiation protection, because cactus balls do not have the ability to make radiation turn.

So is there really nothing that can be done to protect against radiation? Actually, that is not the case either. At present, drinking more green tea during work is a good choice. This is because the components in green tea can improve the body and enhance immunity, thereby strengthening resistance to radiation. If it is paired with detoxifying mung bean soup, so much the better.

Although cactus balls cannot prevent radiation, if you grow some cactus balls in the office, they are still very useful for purifying the air.

Research from the University of Hawaii in the United States once showed that drinking more green tea plays an important role in preventing radiation. Tea contains relatively large amounts of lipopolysaccharides, which can improve the body's hematopoietic function. After lipopolysaccharides are introduced into the human body, they can enhance the body's nonspecific immunity within a short time, thereby effectively preventing radioactive substances from invading the body and having a significant protective effect on hematopoietic function. It can be seen that compared with cacti, green tea is the “expert” at protecting against computer radiation. In addition, mung bean soup contains substances that help excrete toxins from the body and accelerate metabolism, and can also effectively resist various forms of radiation pollution.

If you are pregnant, then the most effective way to protect against radiation is still to wear a radiation protection suit. In the office, the strongest radiation comes from copiers, then the back of CRT monitors, then desktop computer hosts; the radiation from other devices is relatively much weaker.