Medicinal indoor plants

Many of us in the apartment on the windowsills have pots of flowers, but not every housewife knows that besides the beauty of leaves and flowers, indoor plants can differ in useful or even medicinal properties. Medicinal houseplants, for example, aloe or calanchoe have long been popular and are often used by housewives as a means of traditional medicine.

Kalanchoe: healing properties with a cold

The second name of this plant is home ginseng. The juice of the flower is rich in useful substances, for example, flavonoids, vitamin C, microelements, and plant leaves are rich in organic acids and enzymes. To produce the Kalanchoe juice, fresh green leaves are used, which must first be crushed.

The most common application of plant juice is the treatment of the common cold, but this is by no means the only disease with which the Kalanchoe is able to cope. The juice of the plant perfectly fights with paradontosis, with external application treats trophic ulcers, fistulas, decubitus, and also almost any purulent infections, abscess, phlegmon and others.

Therapeutic plant of aloe

Aloe juice is widely used in cosmetology and medicine due to its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. In addition, it has an analgesic effect, so it copes well with any injuries better than any green. Aloe is used to treat burns and abrasions, gastrointestinal problems and vision problems, in gynecology and other areas of medicine.

When collecting aloe, note that you only need to take the lower leaves, the tips of which have already begun to dry up, the juice in them is the most useful. Another important condition is the timely use, the strength of the juice decreases significantly by the hour.

The healing properties of geranium room

Geranium is quite common not only because of the beautiful flowers, but also because it is capable of constantly purifying the air in indoors. The calming effect of geranium is useful for those who have diseases of the cardiovascular system, and the geranium broth is able to help fight many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, for example, chronic inflammation, gastritis, and pain in peptic ulcer. Possessing not only anti-inflammatory, but also analgesic action, such a decoction is applied externally in case of problems with the skin, ulcers or phlegmon.

Indoor plants in folk medicine are used quite often, as in "raw" form, and broths, tinctures, squeezes and other forms. Therefore, it is not superfluous to settle on one of the windowsills home plant-doctor.