Miracle Leaf Of Life Benefits and How to Grow Your Own. Not Mother of Thousands

Welcome to Lillian's garden. The leaf of life in its second year and it's got a lot of babies at you. They are all getting bigger. The name is a miracle plant. The leaf of life that is one very popular name. You may know these plants as cathedral bells, air plants, never die plants. It has several names by which it's been called. Scientifically it is named Bryophyllum pinnata and more recently Kalanchoe pinnata. It's native to Madagascar but it grows worldwide. It can grow outdoors, indoors. It just needs sunshine. You can grow this plant very easily and it is very important both spiritually and medicinally. It has been used to treat coughs, asthma, wheezing, those respiratory issues. It's also been to treat a whole lot of other conditions. We don't have to wait until the leaves are this mature. You may have younger leaves just harvest them as soon as they start growing. Take a look at how I'm harvesting these leaves. Try to cut it not on the stem because you want the stem to continue to grow stronger. Don't just break the leaf off at the stem. Cut it off and let a little portion of the leaf stalk remain on the stem. Now that we have a bunch of leaves we can take these, wash it and juice it. We'll use the juice to treat all those conditions I mentioned earlier. We can also just chew it. You can chew it and spit it out or chew it and swallow it. Those two are okay. This plant is called miracle leaf of life because it treats so many conditions. You can use it if you have a headache. It treats arthritis and it also is used in the treatment of ulcer and diabetes. It just helps. It goes away in alleviating these conditions. Growing the leaf of life, you may use just any part of the plant, the leaf or the stem. Place it on soil and within two weeks it starts to grow. You can see the little babies start to shoot out. You can take the leaf and place it on the soil and you start to see little baby plants coming out from the edges. This you can now take off and put in pots as I have all over my surface here and we have all these little baby plants. They soon grow old and I'm able to harvest them and use them for all the different things. I use it for my hair. I would apply it topically to my hair and I also chew it. Though these plants are young, I'll harvest these leaves and eat them. It doesn't matter whether the leaves are young. It doesn't matter whether the leaves are small or big. They pack the punch for what you require. The reason why I pluck the little leaves is because the bigger leaves are already above them and they are not receiving sunshine. So they just remain small and they die. So I harvest them and use them and this enables the plants to grow taller so that it can reach for more sun. The leaf of life plant is a succulent plant. It grows mainly in soil that is well drained. Make sure there are big holes in the pot or grow it in an area where it is not waterlogged. The leaf of life does not like to be over watered. You may water it just once in a week. The leaf of life has a sort of a salty, tangy taste. That's what I would call it and it works wonders. Apart from having medicinal importance, the leaf of life also has spiritual importance. Having it around you really does a lot of positive energy into the atmosphere. A second reason for it being called the leaf of life is because you can take the leaf and plant it without having seeds and you get a new life from it. It's not only the leaf that you can plant, you can also plant the stem. So if I take this stem, put it in soil, within two weeks I would have new plants shooting out from it all over. That's the stem that I put in the soil that I was showing you earlier. It's sprouting and these are the ones that I put in upright. They are sprouting faster because this one has two separate plants on it and this has two separate on it. But they'll be going together like that. I'm not going to be separating them. But these ones that I lay on their sides, this one has about seven. This one has three. There's two on either side and one down below. There are two down below there and you can count all the way up. So it grows from the leaves and from the stem. The leaf of life is very good to have around for medicinal and spiritual purposes. Just take this leaf, place it on soil or even on a windowsill and it will start growing as a tune and also the cut stems. So you may just get a leaf or you purchase one plant and make so many other plants out of the one. I took the leaves from them. That's the another grown-up one and while it's been growing there are many babies shooting out from its stem just there like that. It's good to have this plant around. You can use it to treat bones just like aloe vera. You can use it to treat cuts, to sterilize cuts and the healing will start. Yes I can eat it and swallow it. That's the raffaegi or I can spit it out if I choose. It's good. It's just raffaegis for the body but it's the juice that works best. One thing I would like to add is there's other plants in the group. We have the mother of thousands. It produces plants on its leaves as well but the appearance is different. You can take a look at it. The leaves are definitely different from that of the leaf of life and there's so many babies around the edges. This is not leaf of life. This is mother of thousands. I hope you can lay your hands on some leaf of life. Place it in a soil. It can be in a soil in a pot or on the ground outside and keep an eye on it and watch your garden having a lot of leaf of life plants in it. Or you may just buy a whole leaf of life plant and start from there. Like and subscribe to my channel. Thank you for watching.