The plant monetary tree (crassula) can become not only decoration of your house, but also the assistant in fight against many illnesses. And some even allocate it with mystical property: to attract prosperity and wellbeing to the house.
Flowers crassula: how to look after
Flower growers appreciate this plant just unpretentious character. Care for it includes several simple rules. Lighting. If the crassula receives not enough light, it can ache and die therefore it is important to choose well lit place for this flower: if there is opportunity, it is better to put it at window which comes to the South or the southeast.
Watering. As this plant is from South Africa, it does not love abundant watering. Will enough irrigate two-three times a week. And in the fall and in the winter the frequency of watering should be reduced twice. You watch that in pallet there was no water: excess of moisture – one of basic reasons of diseases of this flower.
Soil. To the soil the crassula is unpretentious. It is possible to use ready soil for cacti and succulents or to prepare it independently, having mixed the cespitose or sheet earth, humus and sand. The drainage which is put on pot bottom can be made of coal and crushed brick. Air temperature. It is not necessary to put flower near heating devices: leaves can begin to turn yellow and fall down. Optimum temperature is 18-25os degrees. It is possible to expose pot with crassula on balcony or in garden in the summer.
Medicinal properties
Many heard that the window plant monetary tree brings success in financial affairs, tells about it also its name. At the same time it also has number of curative properties and is actively applied in traditional medicine. The crassula possesses antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-virus action. Cold on lip. To process the place of emptying by fresh juice of monetary tree several times during the day. At wounds and cuts. To crush leaves of crassula that gruel has turned out, and then to put to wound surface through gauze. To change compress each 4 hours. At tonsillitis. To take 10 average leaves of plant, to squeeze out of them juice and to mix with glass of boiled water. To apply as means to rinsing of throat. At diseases of joints. Very effectively against pain and inflammation to smear joints for the night with fresh juice of monetary tree. At inflammation of kidneys. To crush and fill in 5 leaves of plant with glass of boiled water, to leave so for hour, then to filter. To drink on one tablespoon three times a day in 10-15 minutes prior to meal. Attention: there are data according to which in juice of crassula contains arsenic therefore to exceed the recommended doses for the purpose of strengthening of effect, especially at intake, it is not recommended.