Herbs have always accompanied us. We have been gradually learning their magical power for several centuries. Grandmothers and mothers teach us how to use them for serious ailments, as well as how to use their properties in everyday small ailments. Today we will present the yellow sweet clover, which is still unknown to the wider public. It is worth exploring the knowledge about it and taking advantage of the extremely valuable action.
Yellow melilot in other words, a medical plant is a yellow specific plant that currently grows in many agricultural fields. Especially often we can encounter it on wastelands, between and unused embankments. It has clusters of flowers with a warm honey yellow color. It is not without reason that its beautiful color is a lure for bees, which is why beekeepers use it as a nice bait for better honey nectar. It reaches up to a meter in height. It has delicate and thin stems. The leaves are three-layered. It blooms from July to October. It grows in India, Asia Minor and Western Siberia.
It is a medicinal raw material clover herb containing a wealth of medicinal substances, which are:
- flavonoids,
- vitamin C,
- coumarin compounds,
- alantoina,
- melilotyna,
- mineral compounds,
- virgin,
Below is a long list of extraordinary properties scientifically proven, which confirm how much especially women, as well as children and the elderly need water extracts from melilot and their regular use.
- yellow sweet clover due to very strong anti-inflammatory properties, it is used with very good results in cardiovascular diseases with blood exudation problems, it is a medicine in the case of: venous thrombosis, inflammation of lymph vessels, hemorrhoids, ulcers,
- The high content of coumarin in the sweet clover herb allows you to treat diseases that lead to hypercoagulability of the blood. It improves blood flow in the vessels and lymph, helps to deliver oxygen to all brain cells, and thus prevents strokes and blood stasis that lead to a heart attack. Prevents intravascular coagulation,
- sweet clover it is also very widely used in dermatology; through healing properties and high content of vitamin C, it helps to soothe skin diseases such as: dermatitis, boils, heals all types of scars after treatments, skin grafts, gently soothes and masks ulcers, is an effective medicine for inflammation of the conjunctiva and eyelid margins, soothes tearing
- as an additional agent, it can be used with very good effect in leukopenia, a disease with a decrease in white blood cells – leukocytes), has analgesic and sedative properties, therefore it is recommended during severe nervous exhaustion, hepatic and renal colic, as well as various types of neuralgia,
- supports digestion thanks to the bitters contained in the composition,
- it is also a very strong diuretic herb,