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New Year in a healthy atmosphere

New Year's holidays are a special atmosphere in the house not only because the celebration is associated with the anticipation of long and delicious feasts and joyful festive events. But this celebration is also associated with the fact that there is a reason to improve the atmosphere in the house in the literal sense of the word, because a tree is brought into the room, which emits very useful phytoncides, which during all the holidays will refresh the air in the room and make it healthy.

What is useful in coniferous phytoncides? In fact, phytoncides are volatile essential oils contained in the needles of plants, as well as in the bark and cones. It is interesting that it is coniferous phytoncides that have the widest spectrum of action on the surrounding atmosphere within the large distances over which they can spread. The volatile properties of coniferous phytoncides allow them to fill the air spaces for kilometers.

The beneficial value of pine needle phytoncides lies in the composition of these volatile compounds, which are represented by the most biologically active substances - terpenoids of various chemical structures. But in their chemical action, pine needle essential oils are insecticides of varying degrees of action, which sterilize the air space in the same way as antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic aerosol preparations and aerosol insecticides.

In addition to insecticidal and sterilizing action, coniferous essential oils have special medical properties, which consist of their ability to influence the work of the vasomotor and respiratory centers. These properties allow to expand the walls of the blood vessels of the bronchi and increase the outflow of bronchial exudate (increase in the separation of sputum and its liquefaction) in low concentrations or in high concentrations when inhaled to narrow the walls of the blood vessels of the bronchial network and reduce the secretion of bronchial exudate, which entails a decrease in the level of sputum separation.

Due to these mechanisms of action on blood vessels, coniferous trees are the most useful for breathing, since these plants have the unique property of producing concentrated phytoncides (concentrated essential oils) into the airspace, which get onto the surface of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, are absorbed into the blood and have a beneficial effect on the patency of the respiratory tract.

The most concentrated volatile essential oils are released by fir and juniper needles. And these essential oils have a very convenient property for use in domestic conditions in limited spaces - they do not leave greasy stains on fabric, paper, wooden surfaces, as they have a high degree of volatility - they evaporate into the air.

There is no easier and more accessible reason to improve the atmosphere of a home all year round. For this reason, it is worth taking advantage of the opportunity and using live coniferous plants for New Year's decoration of the room. These plants can be presented not only in the form of spruce, pine, as well as juniper or any other coniferous tree, but also in the form of branches from fresh coniferous trees, from which you can make New Year's bouquets. Only one condition for the presence of a live coniferous tree in a closed room must be observed so that the needles exude essential oils as long as possible - place the plant in a container with wet sand, and a bouquet of coniferous branches - in a vase with water or in a flower pot with wet sand. The sand must be moistened as it dries.

But what to do if you were unable to buy a live coniferous tree or its branches for the holiday? How to celebrate the New Year in a healthy atmosphere in this case? Fir oil purchased at a pharmacy will help to imitate the effect of fresh pine needles. In order to spray it in the air of a closed room, it is enough to apply a few drops of Fir oil to ribbons tied to a fan and periodically turn on the fan. Another way to saturate the atmosphere of the room with coniferous essential smells that are useful for breathing is to dip a thin wooden straw in Fir oil and set it on fire. And the easiest way to arrange inhalations of coniferous phytoncides in a home room is to boil water in a container with a closed lid, pour a little Fir oil into the boiling water and leave the container with boiling water without a lid so that the steam with Fir oil evaporates into the atmosphere of the room. For more convenient inhalation treatment of the room with Fir essential oil, there are oil lamps, which, in addition to the health effect, can perfectly decorate the room during the holidays.

To celebrate the New Year in a healthy atmosphere, it is enough to use the healing properties of coniferous trees or ready-made essential oils of coniferous trees and improve your well-being in the most unobtrusive way.