PLEKTRANTHUS - IN TEA AND IN… CUPBOARD
Plectranthus – Photo
It is worth slightly disturbing the plant or picking a leaf, and the house will be filled with the captivating smell of room mint - plectrantus, or, as it is also called, spores.
PLEKTRANTUS – CARE
Plectrantus loves partial shade. If the plant is exposed to direct sunlight, then its growth slows down, and the leaves start to turn yellow. The flower does not tolerate heat, feels more comfortable at temperature + 18-25 city. Prefers loose soil (I grow in black soil from the garden). For growing a plant, peat-based soil, which dries quickly, not using. I pour it with settled water at room temperature. In the summer, I spill the soil in the pot with a weak solution of potassium permanganate to prevent fungal diseases.
PLEKTRANTHUS AROMA ENCHANTS AND SCARES
I do not feed the plectrantus with anything, because I add it to tea. One leaf is enough, so that the drink has a pleasant aroma and refreshing taste. This tea is relaxing, soothes, improves mood and helps to sleep well. Plectrantus also helped me get rid of moths, which does not tolerate its smell. She laid out not only leaves on the shelves of the cabinet, but also cut branches of the plant.
I'm getting rid of flowers
In summer, adult bushes appear white, blue or purple flowers, collected in spike-shaped inflorescences, like Coleus. If you don't cut them off, then the fruits will be tied. This whole process weakens the bush., so I crop the flower arrows.
REPRODUCING PLEKTRANTHUS WITH CUTRINGS
In spring and summer, I cut or gently break off the plectrantus branches and put them in the water. After the roots appear, I plant them in pots with earth.
© Author: Svetlana KONONOVICH, r. Minsk
PLEKTRANTUS – HOME CARE. VIDEO
Quite by accident on the street I bought a new flower for myself - fragrant plectranthus, or "lord of the moth".
Put it on the east window, providing diffused light. Two weeks later, transplanted into a fresh substrate. I water after the top layer of soil dries out., without forgetting to remove excess from the pallet. I shower once every two weeks.. In summer, the plant is well at a temperature + 18-25 city., now my task is to provide him with winter + 12-16 city.
By the way, They say, that plectranthus brings good luck to its owner and, who ever took care of him. And also heard, the plant has medicinal properties and is used in folk medicine.
Preparations based on plectranthus fragrant have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, diaphoretic, diuretic, laxative, analgesic and sedative properties. Nausea, flatulence, mild diarrhea: 1-1,5 st.l.. pour fresh leaves 1,5 Art. boiling water for half an hour, strain. Accept by 0,5 Art. insisted 3 once a day half an hour before meals. Drink hot and after meals for colds, runny nose, coughing. Trouble falling asleep due to nervous excitement, anxiety: add a handful of chopped fresh leaves to ordinary tea leaves (near 1 st.l.), soak in boiling water for a minute 15 and drink in the evening. Skin ulcers: moisten the affected areas with the juice of the plant several times a day.
Diaper rash in children and bedridden patients: dry leaves are ground into a powder and mixed with baby powder (1:5). Enuresis in children: 2 st.l.. pour chopped fresh leaves 1 l boiling water, keep on low heat 10 minutes, insist half an hour, strain, squeezing raw materials, and pour into a bath of warm water. Bathe the child 7-10 minutes every other day, for half an hour until bedtime. Insect bites: attach a crushed leaf.
Attention! Preparations based on plectranthus fragrant are contraindicated during pregnancy, breastfeeding, children up to 12 years old, with hypotension, varicose veins, individual intolerance.
Dina BALYASOVA, plant biochemistry, r. Moscow