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Jadvyga Balvočiūtė, a famous pharmacist in Lithuania, knows the undeservedly forgotten plants, their valuable properties, advises to grow them at home and use the power of these healers.
Everyone knows the name of aloe.
Aloe, formerly known as aloe vera, was still known to our ancestors and was widely used for healing. Aloe arborescens is a perennial, evergreen, indoor, medicinal, and at the same time decorative plant with a tall, straight stem and succulent leaves with pointed edges. It blooms with orange flowers, but very rarely, when it reaches a very respectable age. Aloe vera grows in South Africa and in Lithuania it is grown in rooms, greenhouses or greenhouses.
How to grow?
Aloe vera grows well in a cool, bright room. It is better to grow them in a mixture of soils prepared with grass, deciduous (1: 1) and peat soil and sand can also be added. It is very important that the soil in the pot is moist enough, but its top layer is dry. Aloe must be watered abundantly in summer and moderately in winter. Once a month, except in winter, aloe should be fertilized with organic liquid fertilizer.
Aloe vera grows quickly but is not suitable for treatment for up to three years. It is better to use 5-6 year old plants for this purpose. They can be propagated by shoots and seedlings.
Value and healing properties
Aloe vera is a powerful stimulant of the immune system and tissue regeneration. The juicy aloe leaves are rich in glycosides, organic acids, resins, yeasts, essential oil, vitamin C, carotene, macro and trace elements. It is advisable not to water the plant for a week before preparing the raw material; the less the aloe is watered, the higher the concentration of juice. It is recommended to keep the cut leaves in the refrigerator for 5-7 days, then wash them with boiled water, grind them in a meat grinder and squeeze the juice. To prevent the juice from losing its healing properties for longer, it should be mixed with honey in a ratio of 8: 1.
The harvested leaves are stored in the refrigerator due to the formation of so-called biogenic stimulants when unfavorable living tissues are kept under unfavorable conditions. In the body, they stimulate vital and regenerative processes, improve metabolism, inhibit inflammation, increase the body’s resistance to disease, heal wounds and burns, and are used to treat stomach, intestinal, heart and skin diseases. Aloe vera juice, dressing, balm, syrup, emulsion and bitters can be prepared. For the treatment of angina, two 3-5-year-old lower aloe leaves (without watering the plant for seven days), minced with a meat grinder or food processor, squeeze the juice, pour half a glass of lemon juice, add half a kilogram of honey, mix well in a wooden spoon and store.
Such a mixture should be eaten one tablespoon three times a day one hour before a meal. Use the mixture for 2-3 weeks. When the body is weak and exhausted, a mixture of 100 ml of aloe juice, 500 g of walnuts, 300 g of honey and 3 lemon juice is used for serious diseases. Take a dessert spoonful of the mixture three times a day for 30 minutes before eating.
The mixture of juice with honey or fat stimulates the appetite, is suitable for pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases. For colds, sneeze 4-5 times a day, add 3-5 drops (2 drops for children) of juice diluted in half with boiled water in each nostril and massage the nasal nipples. Aloe vera juice is used to treat burns, frostbite, ulcers, and hard-to-heal wounds.
A clean linen cloth with aloe vera juice should be placed on the injured area and the wound will heal immediately. Deep and incurable wounds should be washed with diluted aloe juice, apply a cloth soaked in juice and bandage.
Note: It is recommended to consult a doctor before taking aloe vera preparations. They should not be abused. Aloe vera preparations should not be used in pregnant women, as well as in bleeding from the uterus in the presence of hemorrhoids. Do not use it if you have gallbladder or liver problems. The use of aloe vera in large quantities is not recommended.
Golden mustache or fragrant chalice
This plant is called in various ways: golden mustache, Venus or live hair, fragrant calyx or homemade ginseng. Golden mustache – Callisia fragrans (Callisia fragrans) is a perennial herbaceous plant native to Mexico. As houseplants, they have been cultivated for about 100 years. The calyxes are lush and tall (growing to 2 m tall), with double shoots and ornate, dark green leaves similar to young corn. For several years, a well-groomed plant blooms with fragrant fine white flowers.
Golden mustache
How to grow?
In spring and summer, calories grow better in a bright place, but they do not like direct sunlight: due to very bright light shoots and the leaves turn red. At that time, the plants are watered abundantly and, in winter, sparingly. During growth, calories are fertilized once a month with organic liquid fertilizer (if you want to use the plant for treatment).
In the spring it can be transplanted into pots of the required size filled with a mixture of grass soil, leaves, peat, compost soil and sand (1: 2: 2: 2: 1). The young plants are transplanted every year and the older ones every two years. In winter, the calyx rests: the most suitable temperature is 12-15 degrees, it is watered infrequently when the soil is completely dry and only with soft, warm water. Propagation is possible by shoots and apical cuttings.
Value and healing properties
The aromatic calyx is valuable for its healing properties: the juice of the plant is recommended for the treatment of wounds that do not heal for a long time, the decoction of the plant is an excellent disinfectant, as well as the juice relieves pain, helps people with diabetes and heart disease. Flavored potassium juice contains a large number of biologically active compounds: groups A, B, vitamins C, as well as phenols, pectins, yeasts, and macro- and microelements. Active ingredients accelerate metabolism, lymphatic system, stimulate slag excretion, strengthen immune system, vascular capillaries, improve bile drainage, help expel (juice diluted in boiled water), treat pancreatic diseases, it is suitable for the spine and joints. It is advisable to rub the sore joints with juice. Calcium leaves can be placed on hematomas (bruises), frozen areas of the body.
Freshly squeezed juice helps against inflammation of the ears – instill them in warm ears. Calisin oil extract is also very helpful. Pour the crushed leaves in olive oil and keep in a dark place for 2-3 weeks, then strain and press lightly. This oil will help heal warts that are difficult to cure. Note: self-medication is not recommended, it is necessary to consult a doctor before dealing with these agents.
Kalanchoe is the tree of life
In the people, kalanchoe was often called a houseplant or tree of life. Two types of kalanchoe have medicinal properties: Kalanchoe daigremontiana, a snake (called by a prostitute by many because she throws her children somewhere), with small new plants clustered at the edges of the leaves, and a feathered one (Kalanchoe pinnata ) adorned with compound and wavy leaves. The latter is used less frequently for treatment. The Kalanchoe itself is common in Africa and South Asia.
How to grow?
Kalanchoe daigremontiana is grown in a sunny location. Loves a mixture of loose, fertile soils made of grass, leafy soil, and sand (1: 2: 0.5). Propagated by seeds, “babies”, shoots and leaves. Be careful, like aloe.
Value and healing properties
Daigremont kalanchoe leaves contain flavonoids, a small amount of tannins, which are easily felt when chewed due to a specific “astringent” taste. They also contain macronutrients, organic acids, polysaccharides and trace elements (aluminum, magnesium, calcium, iron, silicon, copper and manganese), vitamin P, polysaccharides.
Kalankė
Daigremont kalanchoe juice has the ability to stop the spread of viruses. It is advisable not to water the plant for a week before preparing the medicine and to keep the harvested leaves in the refrigerator for 5-7 days. The juice extracted from its leaves is used in the treatment of wounds (it has a unique property to treat wounds without leaving scars) and ulcers, periodontitis, gynecological diseases, ocular, ocular, nasal and throat diseases. This juice can also be great for nursing mothers if their nipples break.
It is recommended to apply a few drops of the juice of this plant in the cracks after each intake. Apply a bandage soaked in kalanchoe leaf juice to the wound or abscess and secure or apply the peeled kalanchoe mucous sheet. Kalanchoe juice also helps clear discharge from the nose. Use the juice, diluted in half with boiled water, a few drops in one nostril and in another. To prevent the nasal mucosa from drying out, it is still possible to add a few drops of olive oil to the diluted juice. An effective and spiritual extract of kalanchoe. Pour about 50 g of chopped green kalanchoe leaves in half a liter of vodka, leave in the dark for 2 weeks and use as compresses. The enlarged veins of the legs can also be applied with this extract. The extract has a sedative effect, suitable for herpes, stomatitis.
Note: Self-medication is not recommended, it is necessary to consult a doctor before treatment with these agents.
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