1. My mother, in the country in Lithuania, had big plants of that [Kalanchoe daigremontiana]. If you had a cold you would squeeze a leaf and sniff it [Streatham, London, June 2012].

2. If you have a cold coming on, take and break a leaf, squeeze out the juice, put a couple of drops up the nostrils. It makes you sneeze and gets rid of the cold. Always used by my mother in the Ukraine. It doesn’t help if you already have a cold [Potato Day Fair, Sydenham, London, January 2011].

cf. leaf-of-life elsewhere on this website.

Image: cultivated house-plant, Terrapin Road, Tooting, London Borough of Wandsworth; July 2014.