Golden mustache, or in other words "fragrant callis", can now be found in almost every apartment in our country. This common plant comes from South America, where its healing properties were originally discovered. In Russia, the plant first appeared only in late XIX centuries, and at first did not perform any function, except for decorative. But, as time went on, and gradually, on the basis of this plant, they began to make infusions, apply it in medicinal purposes... By the end of the 20th century, scientists undertook to study the beneficial properties of this plant and work in this area is still ongoing. Golden mustache, home care is not at all difficult, since the flower is unpretentious.
What does he look like?
An adult plant reaches a height of 1 to 2 m, has bright green long branchy leaves with a smooth surface and smooth edges. The shoots of this indoor flower are of two types: erect, similar to corn shoots, and horizontal shoots - whiskers, which gave the name to this plant. Horizontal shoots look "articular", the base of each "joint" is easy to distinguish, there are small, as if underdeveloped leaves. V folk medicine it is customary to use those shoots that have more than 9 "joints".
If the plant is not additionally strengthened, then under the weight of the shoots it can bend or even completely assume a horizontal position and creep. This does not affect either his health or the healing qualities, so you can decide whether to strengthen it or not.
Growing and caring
If you decide to grow a "golden mustache" at home, then you will need big pot(if there is no pot, any volumetric container will do, perhaps a bucket, a cut-off water canister, etc.). Pour into a clean, dry container river sand and crumbled eggshells. It is best to place the plant in a bright and warm place, where there is often sun. This plant requires abundant watering, and you also need to remember about tying the trunk with shoots if you do not want it to spread on the floor and other surfaces.
Do not think that if you decide to plant a "golden mustache" in your apartment, then take care of indoor flower it will be hard. This plant is quite unpretentious. It blooms quite rarely at home, so if you want to see it bloom, you will have to make an effort. If the issue of flowering is not fundamental to you, then much less labor will be required. One way or another, the flowering of this plant is more decorative than necessary: it is customary to propagate the "golden mustache" by shoots and cuttings.
If you have been given a cutting, you cannot immediately plant it in the ground: you need to prepare it for planting. To begin with, the cutting is immersed in water with a cut, for 7-10 days. When roots begin to appear, the cutting is ready for planting. You can plant this flower not only in a pot at home, but also in open ground... Provided the right conditions are provided, the "golden mustache" will grow in the greenhouse and even outdoors. You can fertilize with ash, or you can use superphosphate.
How to use it?
Since this plant is popularly valued for its medicinal properties, often the decision to grow a "golden mustache" is associated with the desire to use it for cooking oil or other medicines for home treatment. Before using any product made from this flower, it is necessary to study contraindications: like any drug, the "golden mustache" has not only positive properties, but can also provoke an allergic reaction or other unpleasant consequences.
The use of healing oil
Oil made from mustache shoots is very popular. It is often used for the treatment of joint and skin diseases, as well as for therapeutic massage. To make this oil at home, you can take both leaves and stems, and mustache shoots. Leaves and stems are squeezed out, set aside the juice, and spread the cake on a dry surface, dry and chop (with a knife or in a blender). Then fill it with oil ( better fit olive), leave for three to four weeks in glass jar, in the dark and cool. This method of making oil is suitable if you need to cure skin diseases. There are no contraindications, but if allergies occur, use must be discontinued.
Oil is prepared from shoots in a different way. Fresh mustache is crushed, poured with vegetable oil (it is better to take olive oil) and put in a glass dish for baking in an oven preheated to a temperature of 40-50 °. The soaking time is 8 hours. After that, the oil is filtered and stored in a dark, cool place. This oil helps with joint pain, headache, is used for massage at home. Its medicinal properties are extensive, and there are no contraindications.
The healing properties of the golden mustache are incredible, the plant is used for:
- diseases of the pancreas;
- gallbladder;
- bronchial asthma;
- hemorrhoids;
- prostatitis;
- periodontal disease.
Golden mustache perfectly heals skin diseases, ulcers, burns, heals wounds.
This houseplant is used for the preparation of ointments, decoctions, tinctures and infusions at home. Despite the fact that contraindications for use are extremely scarce, and the medicinal properties of home-made medicines are not inferior to medicines from a pharmacy, the "golden mustache" is a real find for every family.
For example, with pancreatitis, it is advised to take an infusion. This will require one sheet and a liter of boiling water. A leaf filled with boiling water is infused for a day in ceramic dishes, and after that, it is taken half a glass a day. The healing properties of this infusion also help with diseases of the liver and stomach.
If you take a spoonful of honey, pour it with the juice of one lemon, add a quarter of a spoonful of ground red pepper there, and mix with a tablespoon of crushed "golden mustache" shoot, then the resulting mixture can be treated sore throat... This portion is enough for three doses, that is, for a day.
As you can see, this plant can be very useful for treating many diseases at home. Its medicinal properties are known and have been used for more than the first century, which means it is safe. Contraindications are insignificant - use with caution in asthma, as well as discontinue use if allergies occur. Most of the drugs from the pharmacy have much more serious and extensive contraindications, and the properties are far from healing. Growing and caring for this plant does not require a lot of work, which means you can easily get this plant at home and have a medicine for almost all occasions.
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Familiar from childhood, a cute plant with elongated bright green leaves that grows on the windowsills of many home flora lovers. It turns out, in addition to their direct duties, to absorb carbon dioxide from the airspace of the apartment and to emit pure oxygen.
Golden mustache has extraordinary healing properties that can save you from many dangerous diseases. In Russia, the study of the beneficial properties of this plant began in 1980, at the medical institute in the city of Irkutsk. For many years, Professor Semyonov has been uncovering the secrets of the structure of callisia (scientific name).
Today we will talk about the healing properties of the golden mustache, its use in traditional medicine to get rid of various ailments. You will also learn the secrets of preparation and recipes of tincture from the golden mustache, and from what diseases it can cure.
Chemical composition and biological properties
The scientific name of the Golden Mustache is fragrant callesia. The plant is perennial, evergreen, growing in the form of a grass with two types of shoots. One type of shoots looks like long, sometimes up to two meters, fleshy, juicy, erect, dark green stems with a purple tint.
Elongated cone-shaped leaves up to 40 centimeters long grow on the shoots. Another type of shoot extends horizontally from the first type. These are the so-called antennae, thanks to which the golden mustache multiplies and got its unofficial name.
Flowers are small, small, emitting a delicate aroma. I must say that plants growing in pots rarely bloom, but this fact does not prevent them from actively reproducing.
Absolutely all parts of the plant contain very useful substances with healing properties and are actively used for medicinal purposes.
There is a false opinion among domestic herbalists that when 12 "knees" appear on the additional tendril shoot, then the plant reaches the maximum of medicinal substances. This, of course, is not the case, both young and adult golden mustache have beneficial properties to the same extent.
The only condition is that in the fall, like many other plants, aromatic callesia cyclically accumulates the maximum amount of nutrients in its leaves and shoots. But this is due to life cycle nature and preparing the plant for winter.
As for the direct chemical composition of the golden mustache, in it, scientists have discovered just a storehouse of the most necessary and useful substances for human health:
- saponins;
- glucosides;
- phytosterols;
- pectins;
- alkaloids;
- tannins;
- flavonoids -quercetin and kaempferol;
- phytoncides;
- macro and microelements - chromium, copper, sulfur, iron, nickel, potassium, calcium, manganese and others, B vitamins;
- catechins.
One of the most important substances in callesia is beta-sitosterol, which can help fight cancer, as well as diseases of the blood and endocrine system.
Golden mustache - natural healer
The leaves and stems of this wonderful plant contain a unique composition with an amazing healing effect. The healing properties of the golden mustache are striking in their power and versatility in application, it is successfully used in folk medicine to cure many ailments.
Biphenols, which are found in all parts of the plant, cope with pathogens.
As already mentioned, anti-cancer effects are achieved through the action of beta-sitosterol, which can act like hormones on body tissues.
Chromium, found in leaves, affects metabolism, especially carbohydrate metabolism, and is involved in blood sugar regulation. And the absence the right amount chromium, can lead to the development of pathology of the heart and blood vessels, and even provoke the development of diabetes mellitus.
Copper and sulfur are also essential trace elements for the body. Copper at the biochemical level ensures a normal level of hemoglobin in the blood and a harmonious metabolism. Sulfur, in turn, has a beneficial effect on the skin and hair, and can resist infectious infections and radiation exposure.
Golden mustache remarkably increases the level of natural protection, and has a general tonic effect on the body. It is noteworthy that due to its destructive effect on the diaphoretic microflora, products prepared on its basis do not deteriorate for a long time and can be stored sufficiently long time at room temperature.
Phytohormones have a beneficial effect on the epidermis and promote healing of small wounds and scratches. They can also enter into close interaction with the cells of the body and activate the enzymatic system. From this, cells divide faster and wounds heal faster, and the general condition of the skin becomes noticeably better. There is one more action of phytohormones, they stimulate protein synthesis.
As you know, proteins are construction material for our body, proteins are actively involved in the regulation of many important processes in the body. This ensures the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effect of the golden mustache.
There are a number of pathological conditions in which the use of a golden mustache justifies itself:
- diseases of the stomach and intestines;
- diseases of the circulatory system;
- metabolic disorders, including diabetes and obesity;
- diseases of the joints and musculoskeletal system;
- defeat skin infectious genesis;
- diseases caused by immunosuppression.
Healing recipes
The use of a golden mustache in folk medicine and recipes for various medicinal medicines from it, this is a separate topic of our conversation, and now we will move from theory to practice. Now you will learn how to prepare infusions, ointments, tinctures and other drugs that will help cure many diseases.
Healing infusions
For infusion, use the leaves of a golden mustache, or horizontal shoots of purple. Keep ready-made product recommended in a cool place, and use within the first three days. As an option, the infusion can be prepared not just on water, but using the so-called silver water. To do this, immerse in ordinary clean water, some kind of silver object for 7 hours.
There are three ways to prepare the infusion:
- Method number one: in a glass or ceramic container, brew one leaf of a golden mustache with a liter of boiling water. The leaf should reach a size of at least 25 cm. After you pour boiling water over the leaf, set it aside and insist in a warm place for 24 hours. Strain the infusion.
- Method number two: Take a leaf or a horizontal shoot with a length of at least 16 "legs", put them in a thermos, pour boiled water and leave for about seven hours. After this time, strain.
- Method number three: chop raw leaves or shoots and place in a bowl with cold water... Bring to a boil over low heat, cover the resulting liquid and leave for 6 hours. After cooking, strain. The finished infusion is stored in a glass container. The scope of application is mainly in the treatment of diseases of the gallbladder and strengthening the immune system.
Golden mustache tincture on vodka - recipes
First, a few general rules:
- Either the whole plant or purple shoots with at least ten "knees" should be used.
- We do not use the plant root.
- For chopping, do not use a meat grinder, it is better ceramic knife, in extreme cases, chop the plant with just your hands. The metal can change the chemical composition of the medicinal plant.
- If the recipe is followed correctly, the tincture will take on a dark purple hue. After the infusion time has expired, strain all tinctures and store in a dark place.
Recipe number 1: Grind the plant, pour the raw materials into a bottle of dark glass, add 0.5 liters of ordinary vodka. This product should be infused for 15 days. Shake every day.
Recipe number 2: Grind the leaves or antennae, squeeze out the juice. Add juice and pour 0.5 liters of vodka, leave for 9 days, shaking occasionally. Tincture of the golden mustache is used for the prevention of many pathologies, as well as for external use in the form of compresses or rubbing.
Recipe number 3: Grind the purple shoots of the golden mustache, put in a glass dish, pour in 150 milliliters of rubbing alcohol. Put for fourteen days, preferably in a dark place, shake occasionally. Use only in aqueous solution. For 50 ml of water 10-15 drops of tincture. Drink, preferably before meals.
How to make golden mustache ointment and oil?
For the preparation of healing oil, vegetable oil bases are used, they absorb useful substances well, and for the preparation of ointments, denser fat-containing substances of animal origin or petroleum jelly are used. Store these products in a dark place due to the oxidizing ability of the base raw materials.
- Recipe number 1: Take horizontal shoots of at least 13 "knees", grind, put in a heat-resistant dish, for example, in an earthen pot or dish for a microwave oven. Pour any vegetable oil into the container. You can use regular refined sunflower seed oil or olive oil... You need to take half a liter of oil. Place the mixture in a preheated oven. Keep at a temperature of 40 degrees for about 8 hours. Cool and drain. Store in glassware.
- Recipe number 2: Pre-grind shoots and leaves of a golden mustache into a fine powder. Pour the resulting fine powder into a glass dish and add vegetable oil. Place in a cool place for 20 days.
- Recipe # 3: Get juice from the leaves and stems of a golden mustache. For this, it is advisable not to use metal tools, as this can destroy important components of the plant. Combine with vegetable oil that suits you in equal amounts. Put in a cold place, and after 14 days the healing oil is ready.
- Recipe number 4: Grind the leaves and stems. Connect three parts of the base and two parts of the plant.
- Recipe number 5: Combine the juice of the golden mustache with three parts of the base oil.
These funds are used to treat skin diseases, joint diseases and health massage.
Golden Mustache Ointment
The recipe for making an ointment is very simple and accessible to everyone who grows in the house. medicinal plant.
Preparation:
- Grind fresh shoots and leaves with a meat grinder.
- Mix the resulting gruel with petroleum jelly or baby cream in a 2: 3 ratio. You can also take pork, beef, badger fat or vegetable oil for cooking.
- Mix everything well and put it in a jar, store the resulting ointment in the refrigerator.
The ointment is used for joint pain, bruises, skin diseases, frostbite, trophic ulcers. It is necessary to apply the ointment to the affected areas and affected areas 3 times a day.
Cooking a decoction from a golden mustache
The broth differs from the infusion in that the plant material is placed in cold water and brought to a boil over a fire. To prepare a decoction from a golden mustache, both the leaves and the stems of the plant are used.
- Cooking recipe: take one liter cold water and one large leaf of a golden mustache 25 cm long is finely chopped. Combine water and chopped leaf and bring to a boil over low heat. Leave to simmer for six minutes, then insist for another half hour.
Strain and cool. Drink 3 tablespoons before meals.
Treatment of bronchitis and cough
Expectorant for chronic bronchitis and cough:
- Grind a leaf of a golden mustache, brew it with boiling water - 500 milliliters and let it cool, filter it.
- Add honey - 300 grams to the resulting infusion and mix everything well.
- We store the resulting medicine in a glass container in a cool place.
Take 1 tbsp for the treatment of cough and bronchitis. spoon, twice a day, 30 minutes before meals.
Folk remedy for bronchitis:
- We wrap the fresh leaves of the golden mustache in a cloth and keep in the refrigerator for two weeks.
- After that, rinse, grind and fill with one glass of water, normal room temperature. We insist for several hours and filter.
- Add chopped to the infusion walnuts- 300 grams and one glass of honey, mix everything well.
The resulting remedy must be taken in 1 tbsp. spoon, three times a day 30 minutes before meals.
Throat remedy:
- We get the juice from the crushed leaves and whiskers of the plant, mix it with ordinary vegetable oil in a 2: 3 ratio.
- Let it brew for two weeks in a dark place.
To rinse your throat, take 6 drops of golden mustache oil in a glass of warm water.
And gargle with pain 3-4 times a day.
Treatment of eye diseases
Myopia - Prepare an infusion of golden mustache and take it regularly three times a day 30-40 minutes before meals, 1 tbsp. spoon. The course of treatment is 10 days. After this time, interrupt for five days and resume the reception again within 14 days.
Farsightedness - In this case, the infusion will also help. It is prepared in one of the ways indicated above. Drink warm thirty minutes before meals, 2 teaspoons each.
In both cases, you may first experience discomfort in the mouth in the form of dryness and plaque on the tongue. But this soon passes, and the quality begins to improve.
Glaucoma is an increase in intraocular pressure. Drink for three weeks a healing infusion of 1 tbsp. spoon focusing on the number of meals, but no more than four times. Take a break for thirty days and repeat the course again.
Skin diseases
- Fungal infection of feet and nails- To get rid of this unpleasant ailment, it is necessary to apply a compress from a decoction of a golden mustache to the affected areas. Regular rubbing of feet with tincture heals well. Dilute the tincture with water in a ratio of one to two.
- Warts- Warts are usually called painless growths on the skin. There are many reasons for the appearance of warts. Lubricate warts with pure golden mustache juice diluted with plain water. Use a cotton swab to smear the formations in the morning and in the evening.
- Boils- focal purulent lesions of hair follicles, caused by staphylococci. Good remedy treatment of boils is an ointment based on a golden mustache.
- Burns and frostbite- This applies to the degree of defeat not higher than the second. Take a few leaves of golden mustache, wrap in gauze or other soft tissue, attach to the site of injury. Dressings should be changed every 6 hours.
- Defeat herpes virus- papules and vesicles on the lips or other places are smeared with tincture of a golden mustache. Or a mixture of callesia leaf juice and honey in equal proportions.
Treatment of diseases of the digestive system
Stomach ulcer- Use the infusion, for better healing of erosion of the gastric mucosa, take warm one quarter of a glass before meals. The course of treatment is from two to three weeks.
Gallbladder treatment- Chronic inflammation of the gallbladder, this disease can cause excruciating pulling pains and discomfort in the right hypochondrium.
The positive properties of the golden mustache can help in the treatment of chronic pathology of the gallbladder, and relieve pain. The patient may be afraid that the symptoms worsen at the beginning of treatment, but later there is relief, strength is added.
You should take a decoction of the golden mustache 1/2 cup before meals. In the rectal cavity, the mucous membrane is very well able to absorb medicinal substances, so the treatment can be enhanced with enemas.
The second method of treating the gallbladder, taken according to the following scheme:
- 1st day - drink five drops of vodka tincture half an hour before meals in two doses, dilute the drops in a tablespoon of water.
- 2nd day - drink six drops of the same tincture diluted in 2 tablespoons of water and drink in two steps.
- 3rd 9th day - increase the number of drops to 12 pieces in a glass warm water.
- 10th -16th day - gradually reduce to five drops.
It should be interrupted for one week and repeat the course. Conduct four such courses. The health of the gallbladder depends on regular emptying of the cavity and the prevention of bile stagnation. In addition to congestion, pathogenic microbes play an important factor in the onset of gallbladder inflammation.
Liver disease - This includes inflammation of various etiologies, usually viral and toxic. Drink golden whisker infusion in combination with corn stigmas. Prepare the infusion (the recipe is given above), mix the knees with 1 tbsp. spoon of corn stigmas. Drink the finished medicine one tablespoon twice a day, mainly before meals. After ten days of treatment, I rest for five days. They are treated for two months.
Cholecystitis. With an exacerbation of this disease, it is necessary to take a decoction of the golden mustache (the recipe for the preparation is described above) in half a glass, three times a day. 30 minutes before meals. This treatment can be supplemented with enemas using this broth, enemas are given twice a day, using a rubber bulb or Esmarch's mug.
Hemorrhoids - Apply inside the infusion of the golden mustache. Dessert spoon of the drug before meals twice a day. The course of treatment is ten days. For topical use, add a few drops of calendula tincture to the infusion. Lubricate the delicate skin around the anal canal with a similar mixture.
Constipation - Long-standing problems with bowel movements can subsequently lead to chronic intoxication and disruption of the entire digestive system generally. An infusion of a golden mustache is drunk one teaspoon, three times a day, half an hour before meals.
Treatments for atherosclerosis: mix one dessert spoon of alcohol tincture with a tablespoon vegetable oil... Shake the mixture well in a container with a closed lid.
The resulting balm must be taken for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis two hours after eating, and half an hour after taking it, you must eat again.
You need to take the medicine in this way three times a day.
Carry out the treatment for ten days, then take a break for ten days and again the course of treatment for ten days.
Arrhythmia treatment: thanks to the healing properties of the golden mustache, this ailment can recede, for this we take and grind 3 leaves of the plant. Add 300 grams of natural honey and squeezed juice from one lemon to the resulting juice. Mix everything well. We store the resulting composition in a glass container in a dark and cool place.
The mixture should be taken one tablespoon half an hour before meals, twice a day. The course of treatment is one week.
We treat joints with tincture
Osteochondrosis. To relieve pain and treat joints, it will be good to use a tincture of a golden mustache, daily rubbing the affected joints with it. Alternatively, instead of alcohol tincture, you can use fresh juice from the plant for treatment, just soak a gauze napkin with it and lay it to the sore spot in the form of a compress for one hour.
Arthritis. To treat this ailment, sore spots must be rubbed daily with tincture of a golden mustache on vodka (the recipe is given above). Cover the joints after rubbing woolen cloth... You can also put compresses, for this, soak gauze napkins with tincture and apply them to the joints for one or two hours.
Also, for the treatment of arthritis, the tincture is taken orally, one tablespoon, three times a day, 30 minutes before meals. The course of admission is 7 days. Then a break is taken for 10 days, after which the weekly treatment with a golden mustache is repeated.
Gout. To treat this ailment, it is necessary to take a vodka tincture inside, one dessert spoon, every other day.
For beauty and skin and hair care at home, recipes using a golden mustache are successfully used. On the basis of this wonderful plant, natural home cosmetics are prepared, which carefully care for the skin, making it younger and healthier.
- Skin cleansing - use infusion and decoctions from the horizontal shoots of the plant. Ideal for applying compresses.
- Alcoholic infusion - helps to exfoliate dead skin scales and stimulate skin rejuvenation.
- Acne treatment - in young age and pustular skin rashes caused by staphylococcus aureus. For the treatment of acne, tincture of the golden mustache is used.
- The oil, infused with fragrant callis, well removes dryness and dehydration of the skin of the hands. The same remedy has a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin, if used during a general strengthening massage.
- Healthier hair - after using the shampoo, it is recommended to rinse with an infusion of gold mustache, this procedure makes the hair soft and healthy shine.
- For an ideal pedicure - and eliminate corns and plaques, lubricate the skin of the feet with freshly squeezed juice of a golden mustache.
Treatment of the musculoskeletal system with a golden mustache
Freedom of movement without pain is a happiness that people should value and cherish. When the musculoskeletal system becomes ill, it causes a lot of suffering and inconvenience, since a person cannot move normally. In combination with drug treatment to get rid of ailments of the musculoskeletal system, it will be good to use tinctures and ointments made from a golden mustache, this will ease suffering and speed up the healing process.
Radiculitis treatment
Sciatica is a disease that is not directly related to damage to bones or joints, but people often associate it with back pain. Thus, radiculitis is a degenerative-inflammatory process of the roots of the spinal nerves. The main symptom of sciatica is severe pain.
For the treatment of sciatica, you need to rub alcohol tincture a golden whisker into the skin of the affected area. The tincture not only has a distracting and warming effect, but also relieves pain.
Also, for the treatment of sciatica, an ointment from fragrant callesia is used (the recipes were given above), which is applied first to the tissue, then to the skin at the site of the projection of pain. Then you need to cover with a warm or woolen cloth. The procedure takes 20 minutes. Excess ointment is removed with a napkin.
An ointment based on tincture of golden mustache, honey and sunflower oil is successfully coping with the treatment of sciatica. To prepare this ointment, take three glasses of honey and sunflower oil and 20 milliliters of callesia alcohol tincture. Mix all components and let stand for five days before use.
Treatment of osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis - Violation of the structure of the intervertebral cartilage tissue, in which patients complain of pain, impaired movement and many complications that interfere with freedom of movement. The disease is chronic and progressive. To relieve pain, sore spots are rubbed with a tincture of alcohol from a collision.
You can also use gruel made from leaves for pain relief. The resulting mass is placed on a cloth or gauze and applied to the most painful places. The procedure takes one hour. Wet gauze with infusion and apply for 30 minutes.
For the entire duration of treatment, you must completely stop smoking, because combination with nicotine can cause a strong allergic reaction.
During treatment, you need to follow a vegetable diet, limiting the use of salt, sugar and potatoes. It is recommended to eat more vegetables and fruits, herbs, fish, nuts, vegetable oils.
At the same time, it is necessary to exclude from the diet meat products, confectionery products, alcohol, sugary carbonated drinks, canned and dairy products.
With diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, alcohol tincture cannot be taken internally. For treatment, it is advisable to use water decoctions, infusions or oil tinctures.
The body of each person is unique and individual, therefore, during treatment, unforeseen side effects may occur:
- severe weakness;
- headache;
- dry cough;
- dry mouth;
- hoarseness of voice;
- swelling of the mucous membranes and nasopharynx;
- rash on the skin.
If you develop one or more of these symptoms, you should immediately stop the treatment you started!
Contraindications and overdose
Nature has endowed the golden mustache with unique medicinal and beneficial properties that can help in healing from many ailments, however, this medicinal plant has a number of contraindications.
Therefore, before treatment with preparations of fragrant callis, it is necessary and important to know the contraindications for use and consult your doctor. It is also very important to observe correct dosage in taking medicines, as this plant is poisonous!
Note!
Golden mustache is a fairly strong medicinal plant. And its thoughtless and uncontrolled use without consulting a doctor may turn out not to be beneficial, but harm to the body.
It's important to know!
- Children under eighteen years of age, treatment with this plant is strictly prohibited.
- Diseases of the kidneys and prostate gland in men are also a direct contraindication.
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
- With a tendency to allergies, allergic dermatitis and increased skin sensitivity.
- With individual intolerance to the golden mustache and preparations from it.
Side properties and manifestation of overdose:
- allergy - like any medicine and herbal raw materials, golden mustache can cause an immediate-type allergic hypersensitivity reaction;
- coarsening of the voice - prolonged intake of tincture of the golden mustache in some people can cause a negative reaction of the vocal cords;
- fertility problems - the abundance of phytohormones can disrupt the natural balance of hormones in the body and disrupt the process of formation of sex hormones.
Growing a golden mustache
The golden mustache is unpretentious and grows well on windowsills in the house. For reproduction, cuttings or horizontal shoots of the plant are taken. They are cut off and left in the water. After a while, roots appear. After the roots appear, you can plant the fragrant callesia in the ground.
This type of flora is afraid of the bright sunny sun... In direct sunlight, the leaves darken and crumble.
If you regularly water and fertilize this cute medicinal plant, then through a very a short time you will get a real home doctor on the windowsill.
V summer period a golden mustache can be planted in open ground, and in the fall, cut off purple shoots for reproduction and preparation of medicines.
It must be remembered that shoots with many purple "knees" have a healing effect, which means that the plant is adult. Leaves, on the other hand, can be used to treat young immature plants.
Conclusion
Don't rush to throw away traditional medicines and tear up your outpatient card after you read this article. The potent substances that are found in the fragrant callesia plant are not a panacea for all diseases and often, treatment with a golden mustache should be used in combination with drug therapy.
Therefore, before starting treatment, consult your doctor. Get to know the nature around you and use the resources of Mother Nature wisely.
Be healthy!
Growing a golden mustache at home is rapidly gaining popularity. First of all, this is due to the unique chemical composition leaves and shoots of a flower. The biologically active substances contained in them, flavonoids and phytosterols, are actively used for the preparation of ointments, tinctures and decoctions. Dosage forms based on the extract from the golden mustache help get rid of skin rashes, high blood pressure, osteochondrosis and rheumatism.
A visitor from the tropics: humble and graceful
Judging by the abundance of pots with a golden mustache on the windowsills, the plant originally existed on the territory of our country. But this is not at all the case - the birthplace of the flower is the tropical forests of South America. In its native spaces, a golden mustache can grow up to 3 meters high, its shoots twine around tree trunks and fill the voids of rocky crevices. At home, with proper care, the shoots hanging from the pots grow up to 1.5-2 m long.
Important: if a flower is planted for the sake of obtaining medicinal infusions, an allergic susceptibility test should be carried out in order to avoid disappointment after using the drug.
If not practiced ampel cultivation, then the stems need strong support. Here distinctive features exotic plant:
- leaves are alternate, narrow, up to 30 cm long;
- the outer side of the leaf is light green, the inner side is dark green with a burgundy tint;
- thin brownish shoots (whiskers) with internodes sprout from the leaf axils;
- rosettes of tiny leaves are located at the ends of internodes;
- small flowers consist of three petals of delicate lilac or pink color.
The genus Callisia from the Kommelinov family has more than 10 species; in our country, the cultivation of only one of them is practiced. Golden mustache blooms extremely rarely, only with diligent breeders, for this process he needs optimal care conditions. But, if it bloomed ... Even a small group of blossoming flowers can fill a room with a magical aroma with sweetish notes.
What you need to know about the reproduction of fragrant callis?
Once the golden whisker has finished blooming, the tiny seeds can be collected and sown. But at home, bud formation is extremely rare, so this method is not common among breeders. The plant propagates easily in the following ways:
- Layering using an adult specimen.
- Cuttings rooted under the film.
- Rosettes rooted in distilled water.
When growing a golden mustache in the greenhouse, the method of rooting long shoots is used. "Whiskers" of an adult plant are sprinkled with earth and watered abundantly. In two weeks, roots will appear on the shoot. Now you should carefully separate the rooted part of the flower and plant it in a permanent place.
Cuttings are obtained from a shoot, which is cut into pieces so that each piece contains 3-4 internodes. They are planted in a prepared soil mixture of peat and sand; with the help of a film, the containers for growing are covered and left at room temperature in a bright place. Rooting will take place in a couple of weeks.
Important: the cuttings must be watered as the soil dries, and the greenhouse must be ventilated daily and the accumulated condensate removed.
The golden mustache forms many rosettes at the ends of the shoots that can be used for breeding at home. Healthy large rosettes with short stems root perfectly in a glass of water. The water needs to be changed periodically to avoid stem decay. After the flower has grown a powerful root system, the seedlings are transplanted for further cultivation.
Secrets of proper care
A visitor from the tropics is sensitive to lack of sunlight. If the pot with the golden whisker is in shade, you should be ready to pull out the shoots. The stems and leaves will fade, and flowering is out of the question. The plant feels great on the windowsills located on the east side. The south side is also suitable for a golden mustache, but when leaving, you will need to shade the flower.
The humid climate of the historical homeland made the plant demanding for high air humidity. In the morning and in the evening, you need to spray the golden mustache with soft, settled water using a spray bottle. The pot can be placed on a pallet with small pebbles and water can be poured - this way you can do without constantly wetting the stem and leaves.
Important: when carrying out weekly cleaning, do not forget about the leaves of the golden mustache. Wipe them with a damp cloth and remove accumulated dust.
Immediately after purchasing a seedling, you need to adjust the watering. Complete drying out of the earthen coma is unacceptable: a golden mustache may not recover from the stress it has endured. You can water the flower according to the following scheme:
- from mid-spring to early autumn - 3-4 times a week;
- with the onset of a cold snap - once a week.
The golden mustache likes it when the owner acidifies the water when watering. You can do this at home with a few grains of citric acid or a couple of drops of fresh lemon juice. Proper care consists in loosening the soil under the plant weekly. This must be done carefully, trying not to damage the delicate roots.
Soil and nutrient dressings
Loamy soil with slightly acidic PH values is suitable for planting a golden mustache. The soil can be picked up in a specialized store. A versatile will work well. And it is best to prepare the potting mix yourself by mixing the following ingredients:
- Horse peat.
- Deciduous humus.
- River sand.
The soil should be light, nutritious. So that moisture does not stagnate in the area of occurrence of the roots, 3-4 cm of any drainage material... Ordinary expanded clay, eggshells or pieces of sphagnum will do. Before adding sand, it should be ignited or spilled abundantly with a pink solution of potassium permanganate for disinfection.
Important: do not forget that the soil collected by yourself under the trees can be inhabited by the larvae of harmful insects, which are deadly for the roots of the golden mustache. Hourly roasting in the oven will help solve this problem.
Over time, the soil in flower pot is depleted, the plant slows down its growth. The golden mustache needs regular nutritional supplements. It responds well to application organic fertilizers, but this is not always appropriate in an apartment. Therefore, the owners pamper their pets with complex feeding. The main thing is that they contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. In winter, it is not required to apply fertilizers more than once a month, and when the golden mustache starts to grow in spring, the amount of fertilizing needs to be increased to once a week.
Diseases and dangerous pests
The flower is able to signal flaws when caring for it at home. If brown spots have formed on the leaves, their tips have turned yellow and dried, then the owner is doing something wrong. This could be:
- excessively abundant watering, which caused root rot;
- insufficient watering;
- dry indoor air;
- poor fertilization.
Having revised the rules for caring for a golden mustache, it is necessary to find and correct the error.
Important: if the plant is grown as a medicinal plant, then high-quality care is necessary - only under such conditions the maximum amount of biologically active substances accumulates in the leaves.
Pests are not indifferent to the medicinal plant, which willingly settle on its delicate parts. The flower began to lose turgor, the leaves wrinkle, fall off, and the shoots have lost their elasticity? It's time to look for unexpected guests on the golden mustache. As a rule, these are:
- Thrips. Form colonies on the inside of the leaves.
- Spider mite. Its red variety is especially rampant.
It's time to take drastic measures and go for the insecticide. Aktellik and Aktara, used for pest control, have proven themselves excellent. These drugs are systemic, the plant should be sprayed once a week for one month. A good preventive measure against pests is regular check-ups to find them.
Golden mustache - modest and very graceful plant... It is difficult to appreciate its beauty at first sight. Moreover, he was not used to attracting attention. It grows in a corner, gratefully responds to simple care, while the owner spends a lot of time on capricious flowers from his collection.
But the benefits of the golden mustache are colossal. Perhaps, initially the florist did not plan to use the healing properties of the plant. But how not to use them if your back hurts, and the necessary medicine is growing on the windowsill? One has only to reach out, pluck a leaf and throw it into hot water.
Golden mustache: growing and care
Indoor plants for many of us are not just a hobby and hobby, but also the opportunity to grow a source of medicines from the most various diseases... One of these plants is fragrant callis or golden mustache. About the golden mustache, its properties and uses Eco-life website posted more than one publication (see at the end of the article). But before you apply it, you need to ... grow it. This is what will be discussed today. Moreover, it is not difficult to grow it, it is also quite simple to care for it, and in return you get wonderful decorations for your interior, and an excellent medicine.
Fragrant collision reproduces in small shoots or "whiskers" throughout the year. The most preferred breeding season is March-April. But if there is a great desire, you can start the process of development of a new plant at any other time. We act in stages:
The first way
- From the mother plant, one mustache is carefully cut off from the crown of the head in several nodules. The lower leaves are completely removed, and the upper ones are trimmed by a third. In this form, the cutting should be left to dry for several hours.
- The prepared shoot is planted in well-moistened soil, and covered with polyethylene on top for rooting.
Second way
- A rosette of leaves with a small stalk is cut from one of the nodules. The cut plant is immersed in water. After 10-15 days, the shoot will develop a good root system, which is a signal to transplant it into the ground.
The soil composition of growing and caring for a golden whisker should combine compost and leaf soil and sand, taken in equal proportions. Remember to have a good drainage system. It is recommended to replant a young plant annually, and an adult needs to change the pot for a new one every few years.
Conditions conducive to the good development of the golden mustache
Golden mustache - a plant that has migrated to us from the tropics, loves warmth very much. In the summer, it will feel comfortable at an air temperature of 22-260C, in the cold season necessary minimum on the thermometer should show at least 160C. It is important to provide a golden mustache good lighting... However, it is better not to put it in direct sunlight. In the shade, in principle, it can also grow, but you will not see beautiful and strong leaves.
It is better to put the pot with callisia in rooms with good air condition - bedrooms, living rooms, children's rooms. A kitchen or a room where people smoke often will not work for her. Choose a beautiful hanging planter for your golden mustache. His flowing mustache with rosettes of leaves will look absolutely amazing.
If you provide good conditions for the golden mustache, it can even bloom. Fragrant callis flowers have a white tone with a pinkish tinge, they smell very nice with a delicate and delicate aroma. When the plant has faded, small bolls (fruits) appear in place of flowers.
How to properly care for a plant
Watering, feeding and spraying on time - these are the basic requirements for the care and cultivation of a golden mustache. V summer time the plant needs abundant watering, however, care must be taken that the earth is only wet, and not flooded with water. During the cold season from August to April, the number of irrigations is reduced to 2 times a week, making sure that the land does not dry out.
Water for irrigation golden mustache needs a little acidified. This effect can be achieved by acidifying the water with lemon juice (1 teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice is used for 1 liter of water).
To ensure the cultivation and care of the golden mustache at a decent level, it is necessary to constantly maintain high humidity. Try to spray the plant every day. If you suddenly notice that the leaves of callisia are beginning to turn yellow, this will indicate that the plant is overdrying (this often happens in the summer). In addition, yellow spots on the leaves can indicate too strong sun exposure to callisia. In this case, the plant needs to be shaded slightly. And it is better to simply remove the pot of callisia from direct sunlight during the hours of active sun.
Diseases and pests of the golden mustache
Poor plant maintenance will be indicated by signs such as dry leaf tips and brown spots. Thus, the plant signals a lack of moisture, the sun is too active, and also that it needs feeding. mineral fertilizers... At the same time, the lack of sunlight will negatively affect the production of the very enzyme that provides the golden mustache with its healing properties. Therefore, you should try to find the perfect balance between the shaded and sunny sides of the room, or constantly transfer the plant from too bright sun to the dark side, and vice versa. The plant should be fed with mineral fertilizers for indoor flowers during the period of active growth.
Constant spraying of the plant and good air humidity are the main measures for the prevention of diseases of the golden mustache with red spider mites and thrips. But if, nevertheless, infection could not be avoided, the leaves are sprayed with a systemic insecticide, covered with polyethylene, and left in this form for several days.
By following these simple recommendations, you will definitely be able to grow a strong and beautiful plant, which has a whole range of healing qualities.
Svetlana Frantseva "Golden mustache: growing and care" specially for the Eco-life website.
The beneficial qualities of this popular plant and its unpretentiousness attract lovers of home plants. No remedy can be considered a panacea, but a golden mustache helps to cure many diseases.
Scientifically, the golden mustache is called Callisia fragrans. The name of the green pet comes from the structure of the leaf, which is pierced with yellow vessels. This unusualness is noticeable when the sheet is divided into parts. Long shoots are called whiskers, at the end of which a new plant is formed, as it were, in the air.
Golden mustache - perennial for indoor greenhouses and room conditions... Depending on the content and care, it can reach a height of a meter or one and a half. But this is the maximum, which is achieved only under ideal conditions. On the main straight shoot or trunk, leaves are arranged in a spiral. Wide at the base in length, they can reach 30 cm. The leaf ends with a pointed top.
The plant is distinguished by its rich luscious green glossy color. The adjective "fragrant" is applicable because of the flowers. The golden mustache blooms in an extremely favorable environment with fragrant small white or pink flowers. In addition to the life-giving power contained in its parts, this plant has the ability to purify the air around it.
Earth question
The golden mustache loves nutritious loose earth. There are several ways to prepare the ground for planting this plant:
- Prepare yourself from three components
- Buy soil mixture in the garden center
- Mix purchased soil with forest soil
- The composition of the mixture for self-production:
- Forest land from under deciduous trees, except birch
- Humus made from rotted manure and plant residues
- River sand
Each of the ingredients must be disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate. The land from the forest should be free of mold and diseased leaves. The soil from under the spruce and birch is not suitable for planting. Peregnoy is prepared for at least two years. To do this, fresh cow dung is piled into the compost pit, each layer of which is sprinkled with plant residues of healthy plants:
From spring to autumn, the compost pit or heap is supplemented with new layers, and then it all remains intact for the next season. The compost soil is ready for use next fall.
Sand can be taken from the river, after washing it to remove the clay and calcining it in a pan or in the oven. Mix for planting a golden mustache can be purchased at the garden center. This is a universal land for home flowers, since the golden mustache does not impose any special requirements on the composition of the earth.
The soil mixtures offered for sale are often too airy with big amount peat.
To improve the structure of such soil, land from the forest is added to it. Requirements that the golden mustache makes when planting:
- Loose fertile land
- Acidity about 5.5 pH
- Good drainage
Initial adherence to simple rules will ensure a long and healthy life for the plant.
Care
Callisia is native to Mexico with its humidity and tropical climate. Plant care involves:
- Indoor air temperature in summer 22-26 ° C
- Air temperature in winter at least 15 ° C
- Abundant watering from spring to autumn. The ground should be moist, but not wet.
- Moderate watering in winter time... Drying out or waterlogging of the soil must not be allowed. When the top layer dries up with watering, you should not rush. Better to wait one more day.
- Watering with soft, slightly acidified water. Water for irrigation should be at room temperature. You can add a few drops of lemon juice as an acidifier.
- Daily spraying. The high humidity of the tropical forests predetermined the character of the plant.
- It is ready to tolerate a slight drying out of the soil, but low humidity is destructive for the plant. Daily water procedures will help to avoid this.
- Regular feeding. In the spring and early summer, Calissia must be fed with a full complex fertilizer. The golden mustache reacts well to ash dissolved in water. One spoon is needed for one liter of water wood ash... Combustion products coal or other materials contain harmful substances and are not suitable for quality.
- Adequate amount of light. The golden mustache is not very picky about light, but its complete absence will badly affect the health of the plant.
The plant will respond to proper care with luscious green foliage and numerous shoots - its main carrier of healing properties.
Unhealthy look
Symptoms for which you need to take action:
- Yellow leaves
- Withering
- Yellow spots
- The presence of insects on
- The presence of insects on the plant
During periods of low temperatures, abundant watering leads to yellowing and leaf fall. In this case, it is necessary:
- Remove all fallen leaves
- Stop watering
- Give a lot of light
- Provide ventilation
- Loosen the soil
In summer, the danger lies in dry soil and dry air: the leaves wilt or turn yellow.
Urgent watering and irrigation under the shower can put the flower in order, if the case is not very neglected. To retain moisture in the soil when planting in the soil mixture, it is advisable to add vermiculite.
Bright direct sun can leave on the leaves yellow spots burn. In this case, it is necessary to hide the flower from the scorching rays of the sun and treat it with a biostimulator such as HB-101.
The enemies of the golden mustache are thrips and the red spider mite. If any unwanted insects appear, the plant must be treated with one of the following preparations:
- Spark
- Actellik
- Fufanon
- Aktara
The best medicine for all misfortunes is prevention. Keeping a flower in favorable conditions for it gives the plant immunity.
Reproduction methods
Florists use several methods to propagate callisia:
- Cuttings
- Mustache
Reproduction of the golden mustache by seeds is a very time consuming and unreliable process. Only the most patient growers can achieve success in this matter. But the more interesting it is.
It is much easier to propagate in two other ways.
The fastest and most painless method for a plant is "mustache" reproduction.
A rosette with leaves formed on an additional shoot is removed along with a part of the stem. Then it is placed in a container with a nutrient liquid:
- Kornevin
- Zircon
After a few days, the water must be replaced with clean and settled water. After 10 or 15 days root system will allow you to plant a new plant in a pot. Sometimes the rosette is placed in the soil immediately after cutting. In this case, the planted specimen must be watered daily.
For rooting by cuttings, you must:
- Cut off the top with two knots from the shoot
- Remove bottom leaves
- Shorten the remaining leaves
- The cut should be powdered with root root and held in the open air for about two hours.
- Plant cooked cuttings in pots with well-moisturized soil
- Spray the whole plant with warm water
- Provide a greenhouse effect by covering with a transparent lid or bag
The fact that the plant has taken root will be prompted by new leaves that appear in two weeks.
Any method of reproduction will sooner or later give the grower a beautiful specimen of a golden mustache.
Why is it grown
Calissia was originally introduced into cultivation many years ago as a plant with beautiful emerald leaves. Thanks to the mustache and rosettes, it was used as a plant.
- Only decades later, after many studies, its healing properties were evaluated.
- This plant contains a lot of useful trace elements and minerals.
- A golden mustache is also appreciated as a good natural biostimulant that increases immunity, stimulates metabolic processes in the body.
It is necessary to prepare medicinal tinctures and decoctions when the shoot turns brown.
While watching the video, you will learn about the cultivation of a golden mustache.
A real pharmacy on the windowsill can become a golden mustache. Of the many indoor plants, it definitely deserves a place in the home collection.