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Indoor geranium has several names: pelargonium and kalachik. Blooming geraniums on the windowsill create home comfort, especially when it rains in autumn or winter.
Why do we love geraniums? She is beautiful! Its rounded leaves come with a border; flowers can be white, red, pink, and have many shades. This perennial plant has about 300 species!
For the first time this plant was “discovered” by the English naturalist and traveler John Tradescant, his life years 1570-1638. In Russia, this flower appeared under Catherine II. Geraniums and several species of plants for the empress’s garden were sent by George III, the English king.
There is a belief that homemade pelargonium is a talisman that protects the house from the “evil eye” and energy vampires. In a house where there is a “kalachik”, there are always fewer quarrels and more kindness.
In the old days, in order to keep the jam from mold, housewives put a piece of pelargonium in a jar on top of the jam. Planting geraniums in the garden will scare away the snakes. People say: “Where geranium grows, a snake will not crawl there.”
Useful properties of geranium
- is an antidepressant – bright flowers relieve depression;
- leaves scare away moths, mosquitoes and flies;
- the smell of flowers has healing properties;
- heals headache, migraine;
- essential oil purifies the air in the room if it is added to the aroma lamp;
- helps with insomnia;
- from toothache: the sheet is applied to the cheek from the outside, fixing with a bandage;
- with radiculitis (compresses from crushed leaves);
- has bactericidal, antiseptic and antiviral properties;
- the juice from the leaves has a hemostatic effect;
- improves heart rate (attach a leaf to the wrist);
- lowers blood pressure;
- promotes healing of purulent and non-healing wounds;
- improves blood clotting;
- softens dry corns;
- treatment of throat, colds, acute respiratory infections (gargling, inhalation);
- neutralizes the geopathogenic zone;
- geranium: essential oil;
- neutralizes geopathogenic zone
Geranium Essential Oil
It is worth buying a bottle of geranium oil at the pharmacy and here’s why:
- for aroma lamp only 2 drops: improves brain function, mood;
- treatment of herpes on the lips;
- for inhalation;
- helps to lower blood sugar;
- from head lice, parasites and fungi;
- with cancer;
- treats stomatitis;
- used for burns;
- dermatosis;
- for healing baths;
- otitis media, sinusitis;
- neuralgia;
- smoothes wrinkles (add to cream and masks);
- with overwork, nervous exhaustion;
- from dandruff, to strengthen hair roots;
- added to massage cream and shampoo;
- from cellulite;
- added to ice molds to wipe the face.
Geranium: contraindications
- is an allergen;
- idiosyncrasy;
- intestinal atony;
- with hypotension (lowers blood pressure);
- stomach ulcer;
- elderly age;
- thrombophlebitis, thrombosis (thickens the blood);
- pregnancy;
- with constipation;
- when pets eat leaves, poisoning is possible;
- not recommended to be placed on the windowsill in the nursery (allergen);
- children are contraindicated to ingest decoctions, infusions, geranium juice.
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