The fat woman has a rather solid Latin name, quite convenient for Russian hearing - Crassula, however, the name "money tree" stuck to him most of all. Thanks to the final victory of feng shui, the bastard is known and valued as a plant that brings wealth, not health.
Although in reality it is just the opposite: financial usefulness of this plantas they say, science is not known, in contrast to the usefulness of the medical. First of all, it is attracted by the grace and variety of forms, the extreme unpretentiousness and resistance to diseases, as well as the promised financial well-being, and not everyone is aware that they can be successfully treated. But in fact, according to the strength and spectrum of healing effects, a fatty can be safely compared even with such a pillar of folk healing, like aloe.
The family of Succulents belongs to the succulents and is extremely rich (about 350 species), the most famous medically representative of this family is Kalanchoe, the healing power of which is also used by official medicine. Folk medicine is best known for such types of sweetie as Crassula ovata (oval) and Crassula portulacea (portulaca), she is a "money tree".
Chemical composition and pharmacological properties
Although serious scientific studies of the chemical composition and pharmacological properties of fatty tissue have not yet been carried out, traces of arsenic compounds are found in it. This circumstance is main limiter for the use of fatty medicine by official medicine. However, the ancient doctors widely used arsenic for a variety of diseases. The flavonoids found in the crass closures help strengthen the vascular wall.
Practiced in folk medicine, the treatment of fatty bones is associated with its anti-inflammatory, regenerating, antimicrobial, antiviral, antipruritic properties.
Use in traditional medicine
One of the unconditionally useful properties of the money tree is associated with its name. No, they did not guess, not the "money tree". This is her Latin name. If our dear ladies were more likely to say that in Latin a fat woman is Crassula (from crassus is fat), they would be much less complex because of extra kilos, but, on the contrary, would call themselves krules, referring to the authority of the ancient language, right? And complexes are nerves, and nerves are these are the extra kilos eaten ...
But seriously, the presence of the fatty on the windowsill gives healthy effect already due to its ability to purify the air due to pronounced phytoncidal properties (the ability to kill pathogens). There is also an opinion that in the house where the bastard grows, there is a very good energy.
For antimicrobial and antiviral purposes, traditional medicine uses the sap of the leaves of the money tree when tonsillitis, tonsillitis, runny nose in the form of gargling with infusion of throat leaves and dripping juice in the nose.
The widest use of bastard - outdoor. So treat wounds, cuts, bruises, suppurationsusing regenerative and antimicrobial property of fatty meat. Smear the sap of the plant, apply crushed leaves. Wounds are disinfected and quickly heal.
With arthritis, arthrosis, osteochondrosis, gout A fat soup in the form of a gruel or rubbing leaves with leaf juice has an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect.
It has long been known another popular name for the bastard - callus, which is associated with the successful disposal of this plant from corns and natoptyshy, for what they make compresses, putting a slurry of leaves at night.
The fat woman is a real find for people who often suffer from herpetic eruptions on the lips. To do this, it is enough to smear the affected area with a fresh cut of the sheet; it is desirable to do this at the first symptoms of the disease. The high antiviral activity of the bastard will save you from unpleasant sensations and an external defect quite quickly.
Juice of fatty man is also treated varicose veins, hemorrhoids, applying to the inflamed areas compresses of gruel, in the case of hemorrhoids - with olive oil. Alcohol tincture of leaves is also used for the treatment of fatty disease with varicose veins.
Valued folk medicine and antipruritic property of fatty: it can be used for insect bites, allergic dermatitisby simply lubricating the itchy place with the sap of the plant.
Water extract of bladder leaves in folk medicine is treated inflammatory diseases of the kidneys and stomach.
Contraindications and precautions
The fat woman is not poisonous. However, it continues to cause persistent controversy in the scientific and near-scientific environment. After all, arsenic contained in it - even in such meager amounts - does not give grounds to consider it an absolutely safe plant. Be careful with the advice "chew two or three leaves of junkie before eating"Arsenic is poison, its compounds - arsenides can accumulate in the bone tissue, and this sharply limits the use of fatty meat inwards. In addition, it can cause individual intolerance. and pets - in significant quantities it can cause symptoms of poisoning.
And we must first of all remember that the disease is always easier to prevent than to cure, therefore, at the first signs of the disease, you should not delay the visit to the doctor.
In summary, I would like to say, dear readers, if you still do not have this wonderful plant in every sense in your home - real friend and healer, and it is extremely picky and very grateful - hurry! Now the jade can be purchased at any flower shop. And if there is, but you expect from it something foggy type of cash flow, we are pleased to tell you how to use this amazing plant intelligently, specifically and with health benefits. After all, health is the greatest wealth!
