Do plants need sleep and also have emotions? -- Medicinal plants,
lifestyle, and herbal cultivation
Abstract
Since a magic “polypill” – the
“Environment-Sleep-Emotion-Exercise-Diet” intervention [E(e)SEEDi]
was discovered in 2018, it plays a pivotal role in control and
prevention of human disease due to improvement of immunity by healthy
lifestyle. It can be said that it is applicable, as long as one is a
human and survival. However, do plants also need the magic “polypill”?
When plants need a suitable environment, rational internal exercise, and
balancing nutrients (fertilizers, herbicides, nutrients, pesticides, and
others), do they also need sleep? And have also emotions like humans?
These are interesting questions. Currently, obvious climate change
threats herbal cultivation in both China and the globe, in particular
the pandemic and post-COVID-19 era. Only when we understand and confirm
that plants also need sleep and have emotions, can we better protect
medicinal plants and promote herb cultivation and healthy growth, since
traditional Chinese herbs have a good efficacy in combating
cardiovascular disease.