Few people know but Kalanchoe plant not only serves as an element of room decor, but also can help cure various ailments. The fleshy leaves of Kalanchoe mainly have beneficial properties. Juice of them is an important ingredient for medicines that are prescribed for adults and children. It can be prepared at home or bought at the pharmacy. Healing "nectar", most often, taken in the treatment of blood vessels, gastrointestinal organs, colds and skin diseases.
Biochemical composition of Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe has a well-balanced biochemical composition, due to which it has a large range of therapeutic actions.
The sap of the plant is rich in organic acids (citric, sorrel, malic, acetic) polysaccharides, flavonoids, tannins and enzymes. In addition, it contains rutin and ascorbic acid.
Combined with each other, these substances effectively strengthen the walls of blood vessels, reduce capillary fragility. Kalanchoe leaves are 90% water, the remaining 10% are mineral salts, calcium, silicon, manganese, iron, copper and aluminum.
Did you know? Kalanchoe is recognized as one of the best folk remedies for depression, because it helps people who find it difficult to meet a new day in a good mood.
Healing properties of Kalanchoe
The healing qualities of a homemade flower Kalanchoe have long been well studied.
- The plant perfectly cleans the air in the room, destroys microbes in it.
- Kalanchoe quickly cope with ARVI, runny nose and cold.
- Juice plants are used as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe has antibacterial and bactericidal properties.
- Miracle-flower helps to heal wounds, cleanses the blood and removes toxins from the body, promotes good blood clotting, gives strength, vigor and a charge of vital energy.
Did you know? If the Kalanchoe is in the living room or in the kitchen, it contributes to a favorable atmosphere in the house, and if you put it next to the bed, then you will wake up vigorous and cheerful every morning.
Treatment of skin diseases
This plant is especially widely used in the treatment of skin diseases and injuries. With a regular cut You need to immediately apply to the wound a cleaned sheet of Kalanchoe, and it will heal quickly. The pigment spots, after several treatments, will turn pale and be less visible.
With burns We suggest using this tool: you must make a slurry of calanchoe juice and egg whites and smear the burned area of skin with it. You can simply chop the leaves of the plant and attach to the problem area for a few hours.
Kalanchoe is an excellent therapeutic component in the fight against boils. We suggest to take note of two effective recipes.
Ointment from Kalanchoe No. 1
Mix 40 ml of Kalanchoe juice and 100 g of anhydrous lanolin. The mixture is applied to boils several times a day. Store ointment is necessary in the lower part of the refrigerator.
Kalanchoe ointment №2
Mix half a glass of juice with one tablespoon of poplar buds and one tablespoon of Hypericum, add vegetable oil. Insist the mixture for a week, then strain. Apply to boils 3-4 times a day.
Sok plants successfully treat trophic ulcers, fistulas and bedsores. In these cases, the affected skin area should be applied several layers of clean gauze, soaked with fresh Kalanchoe juice. When the bandage dries, it is saturated again. You can change the gauze once a day.
When solving such problems, it helps well and extract from Kalanchoe leaves. They need to take 100 grams and pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, and then insist for four hours. After cover and boil in a water bath for about thirty minutes. Then strain and evaporate half. Compresses are made from the finished extract.
The healing properties of Kalanchoe juice are known to many people with allergies. It is diluted in warm water, and then make lotions on the inflamed areas.
If you are annoyed by the warts, try putting a chopped kalanchoe on them, tie them up with a bandage and hold the compress for 15 minutes. Repeat this simple but effective procedure every day.
Kalanchoe also helps to get rid of herpes and shingles: smear the affected places with plant juice.
With acne rash, Kalanchoe face masks have an effective effect. Such mixtures help relieve inflammation and help narrow pores. Apply the mask to clean skin. We offer two effective recipes.
Kalanchoe Mask №1
Chamomile, elderberry and linden mix in equal shares and pour a glass of warm water. Infuse 10 minutes, then strain. In this mixture you need to add a tablespoon of oatmeal, half a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of Kalanchoe juice. After about half an hour, the mask should be washed off with warm water.
Kalanchoe Mask №2
A tablespoon of dill and Kalanchoe leaves scroll through a meat grinder. In the resulting slurry add oatmeal and peach oil. Apply the mixture on your face and hold for 30 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Treatment of oral diseases
Kalanchoe is widely used in the treatment of oral diseases: stomatitis, gingivitis, periodontal disease. A cotton wool pad soaked in Kalanchoe juice is applied to the inflamed areas, and gums and aerosol inhalations are also applied. All these procedures are easy to do at home. The usual schedule - 4 times a day for 20 minutes.
With periodontitis Kalanchoe helps reduce bleeding gums, remove the sensation of itching, and with prolonged use pus disappears, gums return to their original state.
Did you know? Few people know that Kalanchoe is good for toothache. You just need to chew on a leaf of a plant.
Eye disease treatment
In some types of burns and eye injuries (for example, inflammation and erosion of the cornea, dystrophic changes in the elements of the eyeball), Kalanchoe juice helps a lot. It is diluted with a 0.5% solution of sodium chloride or novocaine solution in a ratio of 1: 1. These procedures can be performed independently, but only with the permission of the doctor.
Treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
Kalanchoe juice is very useful for people who have problems in the work of the stomach: gastritis, enteritis, ulcers. It reduces mucosal inflammation, stimulates the process of tissue repair. However, taking into account the fact that there are a lot of gastrointestinal diseases, the doctor determines the use and dosage of the drug for each case.
And with such an unpleasant phenomenon as heartburn, a simple folk recipe will help to cope. Eat a small leaf of Kalanchoe at its first symptoms. You will feel the effect in a few minutes.
Treatment of inflammatory diseases
When sinusitis nose buried sap plants or use diluted Kalanchoe oil. It is also effective in sore throat, tonsillitis, inflammatory processes of the middle ear.
To prevent sinusitis and nasopharyngeal diseases, Kalanchoe juice must be diluted with water in a 1: 5 combination and instilled with 2 drops 5 times a day. This solution can gargle with laryngitis, tonsillitis, sore throat, acute sinusitis.
Chronic tonsillitis Also shown is electrophoresis with Kalanchoe juice at intervals of three times a week.
Ear disease treatment
After an infectious disease, the auricle inflammation happens - otitis. To speed up the recovery of the patient and to improve his condition is also possible with the help of Kalanchoe.
A tampon dipped in the sap of the plant should be carefully placed in the sore ear and left there for several hours. It is necessary to change it every 5 hours. Kalanchoe reliably relieves inflammation and has an analgesic effect.
For compress with otitis you will need: Kalanchoe juice, gauze, vodka or camphor alcohol, plastic film. Gauze fold four times and notch in the middle.
Mix vodka or alcohol with Kalanchoe juice in a 1: 1 ratio. Dip the gauze into the prepared mixture and attach it to the diseased ear so that the sink is open.
On a gauze, put the film, after cutting it. Then cover the ear with a thick cotton layer or warm cloth and fix. Keep the compress for no longer than 30 minutes.
If the eardrum is damaged, Kalanchoe juice should be dripped into the ear or a gauze pad should be applied to the diseased organ.
Important! In severe and advanced cases, Kalanchoe can be used as an adjuvant, but for the treatment of the disease itself, you need strong drugs or injections.
Treatment of diseases of the female genital organs
Obstetricians and gynecologists are well acquainted with the healing properties of Kalanchoe. Ointments, which include extracts of this plant, heal perineal wounds, erosion, postpartum injuries and tears, inflammations of the mucous membranes.
With wounds and tears apply the same method of treatment as in surgery. When inflammation of the mucous Kalanchoe accelerates the process of restoring damaged areas, enhances the effect of physical procedures. In the treatment of female genital organs Apply a few drops of plant sap to the affected area for 5 days.
Kalanchoe is very useful for nursing moms, especially for those with cracked nipples. The components that make up the juice Kalanchoe quickly heal the cracks and, thus, relieve women from unpleasant sensations. After each breastfeeding, the drug is applied with a pipette with a few drops on each nipple.
Varicose veins treatment
To rid yourself of the unpleasant sensations associated with varicose veins, apply a bandage soaked in Kalanchoe juice on the knots. It must be kept for 30-40 minutes. 
When pain in the legs and the grid of small veins, try another treatment method. In a half-liter bottle, pour the sliced kalanchoe leaves so that they take up half the capacity, add 70% alcohol and put in a dark place for seven days.
Several times this week you need to get a bottle and shake it. After the term, you can begin treatment. At night, feet rub with tincture from the feet to the knees. The pain will pass quickly, but for the treatment of the disease itself, the procedure must be repeated for six months.
The use of Kalanchoe in home cosmetology
With such an excellent biological composition, Kalanchoe has long established itself from the best side in home cosmetology.
Cleansing the skin. Clean your face with a Kalanchoe leaf, after removing the skin from it. To make the juice soak faster, tap lightly on the face with the pads of your fingers. Then spread your face with the usual nourishing cream. After the first procedures, the skin noticeably freshens.
The mixture against acne. Finely chopped leaves pour a glass of boiling water and leave for three hours. Then strain. Wash the face with the mixture every time after washing. Lotion helps to reduce oily skin and narrow pores.
Bruises under the eyes. Remove the skin from the sheets of Kalanchoe and apply them to the bruises, or make lotions from cotton sponges soaked in Kalanchoe juice.
Hand care. Freshly squeezed Kalanchoe juice mixed with hand cream, put a thick layer on the palm and wear gloves on top. Do not shoot until the morning. The juice of the plant strengthens the nails well. Saturate them with gauze, wrap each nail, and then put on gloves.
Freckles and age spots. On the area of pigmentation apply Kalanchoe leaves, crushed into mush. A positive result will appear after regular use.
Harvesting and storage of medical raw materials Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe juice prepared from the leaves and the green part of the stem of pinnate Kalanchoe. Fresh gruel is washed and left in the refrigerator for about a week. Then they grind everything to a uniform slurry, squeeze the juice and defend at a temperature of 5-10 ° C.
In the final stage of the process, sterilized and preserved with alcohol, poured into containers. Ready juice Kalanchoe is a transparent luminous yellow-orange liquid with a specific smell.
Not everyone, unfortunately, knows how to store ointment and juice Kalanchoe. It is very important that the temperature does not exceed 10 ° C. A fridge is suitable for this, in the winter, a loggia or cellar. But even in such conditions it is not necessary to save the sap of the plant for more than a year.
Kalanchoe Ointment contains plant sap, novocaine, furazolidone and anhydrous lanolin. It is applied to the wound once a day or impose a napkin, which cover the wound surface. The ointment is used with antiseptics for no more than 14 days.
Important! Before using drugs with Kalanchoe, be sure to consult with your doctor.
Contraindications to the use of Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe, like any plant, has not only medicinal properties, but also some contraindications. They are few. You can not take drugs in which there is Kalanchoe, with low pressure, pregnancy, tumors and hepatitis. Some people may have allergic reactions.
