Hello, friends Steemian, the use of medicinal plants increases more and more, as it happened in the time of our grandparents, nowadays the use of medicinal plants represents an alternative to the high costs of drugs or drugs. Many families cultivate medicinal plants in their gardens to treat stomach diseases, flu or the common cold, as well as for topical use in case of injuries due to sprains, rashes and burns.

Today I want to present an ornamental and medicinal plant, which although not as common as chamomile, melissa officinalis, ginger or basil among others, also has medicinal properties, I refer to the plant "Kalanchoe", better known in Latin America with the name of "bad mother".

Cultivation of bad mother in pot:

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Plant bad mother or kalanchoe.

This is an ornamental plant, which is usually grown in gardens or pots inside the house, many people do not know its medicinal properties and are only cultivated by the attractiveness of its leaves.

But why is it called bad mother?

This plant is popularly known as bad mother, because it throws her children to the ground. The buds of this plant are formed at the edge of the leaves, which when falling and making contact with the ground become a new plant, that is, this plant spreads through its children.

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Properties of the plant bad mother or kalanchoe.

This plant has important health benefits, thanks to its content in phenols, acetates and flavonoids, which provides the following curative effects:

• Anti-inflammatories
• Antiálgica
• Antifungal
• Healing of wounds.
• Hepatoprotector
• Diuretics
• Antibacterial
• Antihemorrhagic
• Antihistamine,
• Antiseptic,
• Anticancer
• Antitussive
• Antidiabetic
• Antiulcerous,
• Eliminate ovarian cysts
• Antidepressant
• Emollient
• Digestive
• Anti-viral
• Rheumatisms

So the plant "bad mother" is important in traditional medicine especially in countries of Latin America, Asia and Africa to treat various diseases, where the most highlighted is the cancer-related.

How is this plant used?

The part that is used of this plant are its leaves, if we want to treat diseases of the skin we can crush the leaves well and prepare a poultice, compress to place it on the skin; We can also prepare the juice of these leaves with oil or Vaseline to use as an ointment.

In case they are going to be used to treat internal diseases, the leaves can be used raw in salad; in the form of juices as fresh. You can also prepare your leaves in infusions.

SourceIt is important to point out, by way of prevention, that it is only advisable to consume no more than 30 grams daily of these leaves, in case of preparing infusions, these can be taken only three times a day.

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