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What is clover
It is a herbaceous plant with small spherical inflorescences of white-pink or lilac color. A wonderful honey plant and valuable nutritious food for herbivores and as a medicine for humans.
Clover grows everywhere except in the Far North: in meadows, along fields and roads. Flowering time from May to September. Medicinal raw materials – inflorescences and upper leaves, they are dried in the shade, under a canopy.
Shelf life – 2 years in a closed container. Suitable containers: glass jars, canvas bags, cardboard boxes, paper bags.
They began to cultivate this plant in the XIV century. in Northern Italy, then in the Netherlands, and later in Germany and England. It appeared in Russia in the XNUMXth century. In the Middle Ages, clover herb was added for aromatic healing baths, and medicinal tea was brewed from the flowers.
Botanical illustration of a clover from an 1885 book
Types of clover
Clover has 244 species! Its leaves, as a rule, are trifoliate, occasionally there are four leaves. Small inflorescences in different species are red, white, rarely multi-colored.
All types are equally useful, but instead of lawn grass, they use the type of creeping clover with white flowers. Red clover is more commonly used in medicine. Here are some common types:
- Alpine;
- Egyptian;
- narrow-leaved;
- plowed;
- golden;
- field;
- Caucasian;
- cup-shaped;
- strawberry;
- shaggy;
- hybrid or Swedish;
- meat red;
- burdock;
- five-leafed;
- average;
- mountain;
- Hungarian;
- swollen;
- creeping;
- small-flowered;
- meadow;
- dark chestnut.
Clover chemical composition
The aboveground part of the plant contains vitamins B, C, E, K, glycosides, carbohydrates, carotene, vegetable protein, acids, coumarins, fiber, essential oil, tannins, quinones, and trace elements. The seeds contain up to 12% fatty oils.
Clover: useful properties and contraindications
The plant has the following medicinal properties:
- anti-inflammatory;
- expectorant;
- мочегонное;
- choleretic;
- diaphoretic;
- кровоостанавливающее;
- pain reliever;
- antitumor.
Application in folk medicine
- cold;
- lack of appetite;
- pneumonia, bronchitis;
- anesthetizing;
- fight against vascular diseases;
- to cleanse the lymphatic system;
- eye inflammation (lotions):
- hypertension, dizziness (tea);
- noise in ears;
- with oncological diseases;
- female diseases (douching with a warm broth);
- nervous system problems;
- tonic.
In folk medicine, flowers are more often used and less often the aerial part (grass).
How to prepare a decoction
Pour boiling water (20 ml) over clover flowers (300 grams), cook for 15 minutes. Then leave for 30 minutes. and strain. Take 50 ml. three times a day for chronic cough, anemia, scrofula. Outwardly: with burns, purulent wounds, bedsores, with female diseases (douching).
How to prepare the infusion
Brew the clover grass (50 grams) with boiling water (250 ml). Insist for an hour, then strain. Drink 50 ml 3 times a day for colds and coughs.
Second way. Brew inflorescences (30 grams) in 200 ml of boiling water. Insist for 1 hour in a sealed container, drain. Drink 3 times a day, 50 ml half an hour before meals for chronic cough, painful menstruation, gastritis, diathesis. Outwardly: lotions for skin diseases.
Clover: contraindications
- pregnancy;
- during breastfeeding;
- thrombophlebitis;
- phlebeurysm;
- intolerance.
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