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Description of meadow clover
Red clover is a perennial plant with straight, slightly pubescent stems, small dark red small flowers, collected in spherical heads. It is known from the botanical description of meadow clover that it belongs to legumes. Clover gives flowers in July, August, during this period it is harvested for further use for medicinal purposes. Clover is dried in the air, spreading grass with flowers in a thin layer, or at a temperature of 60-70 degrees in special dryers. You can store clover grass for a year, and inflorescences for 2 years. When harvesting medicinal raw materials, it is important to be able to distinguish meadow clover from hybrid or creeping clover - these plants contain less nutrients. Creeping and hybrid clover are distinguished by white and pink, respectively, inflorescences, smoother leaves and a creeping, rather than straight stem.
Clover is grown mainly as a fodder crop for farm animals, but the healing properties of meadow clover are also known: the stems, leaves, flowers contain salicylic, ascorbic, coumaric, ketoglutaric acids, essential and fatty oils, resins, carotene, glycosides isotrifoline and alcaloid, , tannins, flavonols, vitamins B, E, phosphorus and calcium salts.
The root of meadow clover is also useful - an antifungal agent (tripolyrizin) is isolated from it, used as an anti-cancer agent, anti-inflammatory in gynecology, for the treatment of hernia.
In general, meadow clover is valued for the fact that it has an antiseptic, astringent, diuretic, expectorant, hemostatic effect.
Application of meadow clover
The stems of the plant are used as a remedy for scurvy and atherosclerosis, rickets, and malaria. Folk remedies made from clover stalks help relieve headaches and eliminate dizziness, increase appetite, and serve as an antiseptic.
Tinctures and decoctions are used for anemia, metrorrhagia, asthenia, asthma, shortness of breath, cancer. The juice from the stems is used for the same indications, as well as for lingering coughs, bronchitis, poisoning, gout, and acute colds.
Outwardly, decoctions from the stems are used for abscesses, diathesis, malignant neoplasms, burns, to relieve rheumatic and other pains, heal wounds, and soften the skin.
Clover juice is also used externally - to treat diseases of the eyes, ears, panaritium, hernia.
The beneficial properties of meadow clover are used in homeopathy - the composition of various preparations includes an essence of fresh blooming clover.
Clover leaves help to heal wounds and stop bleeding.
Clover leaf juice is used for exudative diathesis (scrofula). A decoction from the leaves is used topically for burns, abscesses, for treating tumors, relieving pain, inflammation, and wound healing.
Separately, the beneficial properties of clover flowers are distinguished. They can also be applied externally and internally. Decoctions of clover flowers are good for treating wounds, bedsores, burns, ulcers, abscesses, treating panaritium and paronychia, eye and ear diseases. Inside take decoctions for anemia, scrofula, gastritis, colitis, bronchial asthma, chronic cough, urolithiasis, cholecystitis, diathesis.
The use of meadow clover is widespread in folk medicine. There are such recipes for tinctures and decoctions:
1. A decoction from the roots of meadow clover: you need to take 20g of chopped roots, pour 200ml of hot water over them, boil in a water bath under a lid (preferably in an enamel bowl) for half an hour, after which, without cooling, immediately strain, squeeze out the roots, bring boiled water to the original 200 ml. Take such a decoction from the root of meadow clover in a spoonful of tablespoon 4-5 r / day before meals.
2. A decoction of flowers: 20 g of flowers are poured with 250 ml of water, boiled for 15 minutes, insisted for half an hour, filtered. You need to drink such a decoction 3-4 r / day for 0.25 cups.
3. Infusion of flowers: 20 g of flowers are poured over 200 ml of boiling water, kept for an hour, filtered. They drink clover infusion 3 r / day, 2-3 tablespoons of tablespoons or 0.5 cups.
4. Infusion of stems, leaves (grass) of clover: 40 g of raw materials are poured with boiling water (200 ml), kept for an hour, filtered. You need to drink the infusion at 0.25 glasses 3-4r / day.
5. Clover juice is prepared from the stems, flowers, leaves of the plant. Drink it in 1/4 or 1/3 cup, mixing 3-4 r / day with honey.
For external use meadow clover decoctions are prepared according to the same recipes.
In addition, the beneficial properties of meadow clover can be used to prevent those diseases that the plant helps to cure. To do this, you can regularly brew and drink tea from clover flowers, and make salads from fresh young leaves.
Contraindications
Clover cannot be used for therapeutic purposes in pregnant women, those who have varicose veins, thrombophlebitis, estrogen-dependent cancer, have a tendency to diarrhea and those who are concerned about chronic stomach pain. It is undesirable to take clover infusions and decoctions for heart disease, stroke.
There are many plants that cure no worse than medicines, and sometimes even better, more effective. Meadow clover also belongs to such grasses. The medicinal properties and contraindications (reviews of the plant note that the herb perfectly lowers cholesterol) should be studied in detail before use in order to avoid side effects.
Red clover: description
Clover is a perennial plant. Has a slightly pubescent stem and small globular flowers of red, lilac or white. Belongs to under favorable conditions grows up to 30-50 cm. The root system is branched and has small tubers at the ends.
The plant blooms in mid to late summer. It is at this time that it should be collected for storage. The culture fully matures at the end of September. It is at this time that the plant produces beans, which contain seeds.
There are about 120 species of this plant. The most useful is meadow clover. Clover is often grown as another herb is used in folk medicine and cooking. Inflorescences are considered especially valuable.
The culture grows in Europe, Asia, northern Africa and the Russian Federation. The grass can be found in meadows of moderate moisture, along field roads or in forest glades.
The plant is rich in nutrients and, if used correctly, can provide invaluable benefits to human health. The grass can be grown on your site or harvested yourself. If this is not possible, then the plant is purchased at the pharmacy. The price of 50 g of dry grass ranges from 50-70 rubles.
The chemical composition of the herb
Meadow clover grass grows everywhere. Known to almost everyone. Despite this, only a few use it in traditional medicine, and even fewer people use it in cooking. It is rich in beneficial substances such as glycosides, steroids, coumarins, saponins. The plant contains vitamins K, B and E. It is saturated with ascorbic acid. It contains phenol carboxylic acids, as well as tannins. Contains quinones and fatty vegetable oils. Clover also contains carotene, flavonoids, salicylic acid and a number of valuable macro- and micronutrients. It is the rich chemical composition of the plant that classifies clover as a medicinal herb and endows it with a host of useful properties.
Meadow clover properties
Red clover is a storehouse of useful elements. It has anti-inflammatory, tonic, wound-healing, antineoplastic, antiseptic, diaphoretic, anti-sclerotic properties. Able to have an expectorant and diuretic effect. The herb has an astringent and choleretic effect. Helps stop bleeding.
The properties of meadow clover have found their application in medicine, in the composition of many medicines.
The use of culture in medicine
What does red meadow clover heal? This question is asked by people who are at least a little familiar with the properties of this herb. To begin with, the plant can be applied both topically and internally, in the form of various tinctures and decoctions.
Fresh leaves of the culture are used for complex wounds and ulcers that do not heal for a sufficiently long time. They are finely chopped and applied to the sore spot. In the same way, the herb is used for burns, abscesses and other diseases of the skin.
Meadow clover (properties and contraindications are described in detail in the instructions for use, but in the event that the herb was bought at a pharmacy) is contained in choleretic and breast fees. In the presence of rashes in infants, a decoction of this plant is added to the bath.
For the treatment of inflammation in gynecology, the root of the clover is used. It is also used as an additional agent in the treatment of cancer and tuberculosis.
The stems of the herb are effective in treating scurvy, malaria, and rickets. Reduce cholesterol in atherosclerosis. Clover decoction can relieve headaches, relieve dizziness and increase appetite. Tincture of the herb is used to treat asthma, anemia, shortness of breath, metrorrhagia. Clover juice will help to cope with coughs, colds, bronchitis, gout, and poisoning. Effective for exudative diathesis and frequent fainting.
Decoctions from clover have found their application in the treatment of anemia, gastritis, scrofula, asthma, chronic lingering cough, diathesis, urolithiasis and cholecystitis.
The plant is able to relieve women of discomfort during menopause: eliminate inflammation;
- remove vaginal dryness;
- stop hair loss;
- relieve insomnia;
- increase libido;
- relieve fatigue;
- soften hot flashes.
The herb is used for epilepsy, angina, high blood pressure, boils. The plant is used for abscesses, insect or animal bites. The indications for use are painful menstruation, gynecological diseases and anorexia.
Contraindications
Meadow clover has special medicinal properties and contraindications (people say that the plant gives a good result in the treatment of ulcers and gastritis, but you need to drink it for a long time), which should be taken into account before using the herb. Improper use of the plant can cause side effects.
In addition, pregnant and nursing women should refrain from clover treatment. Do not use a herbal remedy for thrombophlebitis and varicose veins. Contraindications to the use of culture are diseases of the gastrointestinal system, which are in the stage of exacerbation. You should not use infusions and decoctions of clover inside if you have a predisposition to diarrhea. Refrain should be taken by persons prone to allergic manifestations and people with individual intolerance to herbs, as well as patients after stroke and heart attack.
Side effects
Clover, if used for other purposes, can cause such negative reactions of the body as:
- nausea;
- vomiting reflex;
- lowering pressure;
- allergic skin reactions;
- pain in muscle tissue.
Before using the herb, you should consult a doctor, as a number of medications cannot be combined with clover.
Growing clover at home
If possible, you can grow clover at home, especially since the plant is very unpretentious in care.
A sunny or slightly shaded area is needed to plant a crop. Seeds are harvested only from biennial plants, but it is best to purchase them from the store to ensure better seedlings.
About 300 seeds are taken for one square meter. Pre-planting material is soaked in water for several hours. Immediately before planting, the seeds are mixed with earth in a large container. In this form, the planting material is evenly distributed over the site and covered with a layer of earth, the thickness of which should not exceed one centimeter. The soil should be well moistened for the first seven days after planting. Water is poured from a hose equipped with a spray.
The first shoots will appear two weeks after sowing the seeds. Since clover is a perennial plant, it is not necessary to sow it every year. Despite this, experts recommend renewing the grass stand every three years to improve the quality of the grass.
Clover is sown until mid-summer, only in this case it will be able to mature and gain a foothold on the site.
Collection and procurement of raw materials
Red clover (photo shown above) belongs to medicinal plants. Grass should be stored during the flowering period. For harvesting, you need to cut off the inflorescence and the leaves adjacent to it. Dry the culture in the shade. Electric drying is allowed. In the latter case, the temperature should not exceed 60 ° C. At higher temperatures, the herb will lose the lion's share of its beneficial properties.
If a rhizome is required for medicinal purposes, then it is harvested after the flowering period. The root is dug up and thoroughly cleaned from the earth, washed. The rhizome is dried, as well as the grass, in a ventilated and dry room or outdoors, in a place protected from the sun.
Collect raw materials in dry weather, when the dew has left the plants. Harvested only in ecologically clean places. You should not take grass near highways and landfills, they contain more harmful substances than useful ones.
Herb storage
Storage is carried out in dry, tightly closed containers. It is allowed to keep the grass in a linen bag, paper box. A dry plant can be stored for up to two years, and the root for up to one year. It is necessary to try to renew the stock annually, since during long-term storage the clover can lose its useful qualities and its further use will lose all sense.
Folk recipes
Meadow clover can have a variety of uses. The herb (the properties of this plant were described above) is used for lotions in the form of a decoction. For its preparation, dry flowers, in the amount of three tablespoons, are poured with a glass of boiling water and placed in a water bath for a minute. Used for skin diseases, boils and eye inflammation.
For rheumatism and wounds, an ointment will help, which includes 100 g of clover flowers and 50 g of any vegetable oil. The mixture is infused in a dark and warm place for about 14 days, filtered and used as directed.
For diseases of internal organs, herbal infusion helps. For its preparation, two tablespoons of raw materials are poured with a glass of boiling water. Insist for about an hour. Strain and drink 100 g three times a day after meals.
The tincture can also be made with vodka. To do this, pour 500 g of vodka into the glass. The mixture is infused for ten days. From time to time, the tincture should be shaken. Take a teaspoon at night, after having filtered it. The course of treatment is one month.
For serious diseases, such as cancer and tuberculosis, meadow clover is used only as part of complex therapy. Medicinal properties and contraindications (reviews of women note that tea with clover not only facilitates well-being during menopause, but also improves skin condition, rejuvenates) should be checked with the attending physician before using this remedy.
Clover is a plant that grows in a temperate climate zone. Wet soil is well suited for cultivation, drought negatively affects its growth. Low temperatures are favorable during the growing season. Seedlings can safely tolerate light frosts. Severe frosts with sufficient snow cover do not have a negative effect on clover. Grass is sown in spring, after pretreating and fertilizing the soil.
Growing conditions
This plant belongs to the genus Clover, the legume family, the Moths subfamily. Europe is considered his homeland. It is cold-resistant, its seeds germinate at 2-3 degrees, shoots appear on the 5-8th day. Loves moisture, with a lack of moisture, growth slows down, and sometimes the plant dies.
On the other hand, when waterlogged, the plant lodges. Clover (description below) is shade-tolerant, unpretentious to soils, but prefers sod-podzolic, gray forest and black earth, does not like saline lands. It belongs to green manure plants, forming nodules containing nitrogen on the roots. It has valuable nutritional properties due to its high protein content and is used as a forage crop. Meadow clover is an excellent honey plant, but only bees with long proboscis can collect honey. From time immemorial, it has been used in folk medicine.
Description of clover
The genus of clover is called Trifolium in Latin, which means shamrock. This name is given for the structure of the leaves. All types of clover have a tripartite structure; plants with four leaves are quite rare. In the dark they add up and rise, and at dawn they straighten out. The main stem is shortened, contains a large number of basal leaves, in the axils of which flower stalks grow. Stems are drooping, ribbed, hollow or filled inside. The shape of the bushes is half-wobbly or wobbly. trifoliate and contain white spots in the middle of the leaf plate. Color from bright to dark green. The ovoid shape of the stipules is pointed. They have grown together with the leaf petiole and are weakly lowered. Small flowers (red, pink, yellow, white and other colors) are collected in inflorescences in the form of a spherical head, in some species - brushes. Each flower has a green calyx and a five-petal corolla, which has a moth-like structure. The flower contains one pistil and ten stamens. The fruit is leathery with 1-2, rarely 3-6 seeds.
They are very small and colored in different types of clover from light yellow to dark brown, bean-shaped.
Inflorescences and flowers
Many people confuse the inflorescence with flowers, for example, the red cap of a clover is an inflorescence called the head.
The inflorescence is small flowers located quite close to each other. Their advantage is that they are easier to spot by insects. Pollination efficiency increases from this. Distinguish between complex or simple inflorescence. Clover has the latter and is represented by:
- Head. The thick main axis is slightly shortened, at the top of which flowers on short pedicels are located in a tight bunch.
- With a brush. Small pedicels one after another depart from a common axis, and at their ends there are flowers.
Growing clover
Seeds bought in a specialized store are effective for propagation of clover. The weed-free and treated area is sown. Sowing them in early spring, seedlings can be expected in about ten days. The root system forms very quickly and stems and leaves begin to grow immediately. An unpretentious plant is easy to grow. It is enough to apply fertilizer and irrigate in dry weather.
Types of clover
This is a widespread culture in Russia. It is mainly used for animal feed, but there are also decorative varieties of clover that decorate lawns, alpine slides, and lawns. In total, there are about 300 types of clover, the most common are:
- Lugovoi - its height is from 40 to 65 cm, is used as a forage crop. It has a branched root system that enriches the soil with nitrogen.
The leaves are trifoliate, compound. The flowers form a simple clover in the form of a spherical head. Coloring from bright red to red-violet. Seeds are brownish, small, bean-shaped.
- Mountain - a perennial plant with roots deeply penetrating into the ground. Stems not branching, cylindrical. ellipse, serrated at the edges, with a smooth surface. Clover inflorescence is white, in the form of a ball, blooms in mid-June. The fruit is bean-shaped and contains seeds of a light brown color, which ripen throughout the summer period.
- Red - used for livestock feed and in cooking as a vitamin supplement. The leaves contain sugars, protein and fats. It is used to make salads and is added to bread.
- Reddish - perennial, large plant up to 60 cm high. The leaves are large, three-lobed, blooms in early July. Raspberry-red clover inflorescences are brush-shaped. Blooms for a long period, is listed in the Red Book.
- Pink is a hybrid plant derived from white and meadow clover. The leaf blades are oval, bluntly pointed and serrated. The taproot reaches a depth of up to two meters, the lateral ones branch up to 50 cm. Small clover flowers are collected in spherical heads and are white-pink and pink in color. The fruit is oblong, two-seeded. Dark green seeds
Lawn clover
For the decoration of lawns and lawns, a perennial unpretentious clover plant is often used. White clover is most suitable for this, since it is undersized, has thin stems, and after mowing the site looks quite neat.
The plant is best planted on loamy and sandy loamy soils with low acidity. In addition, clover does not need to be sown annually; it quickly spreads over the entire plot and completely covers the entire surface. The plant begins to bloom from the second year. Small globular clover inflorescences cover the entire sown area with a white carpet. These dwarf fluffy flowers will delight twice a season, starting in May and ending in October.
Advantages of white clover over other lawn grass
- One-time fit. The lawn serves for a long time, clover is an unpretentious plant, it grows quickly after trimming with a trimmer.
- Greens look great from spring to fall.
- Does not require weeding, filling all the free space with shoots.
- Minimum lawn maintenance costs.
- Clover flowers, collected in inflorescences, are not whimsical.
- No feeding required. Nodules with nitrogen, forming plants on the roots, fertilize the soil.
Beneficial features
Clover is a natural immune stimulant. Infusions and decoctions from this plant improve the body's defenses. It has long been used to cleanse the liver and blood, restore disturbed intestinal functions.
Clover contains vitamins A, C, E, B and the minerals phosphorus, magnesium, iron and calcium. Aboveground part: flower, inflorescence, fruit of meadow clover are rich in alkaloids, glycosides and essential oils. The plant has an anti-tumor effect. It is used as an effective remedy for all types of cancers. The content of flavonoids in its composition strengthens the walls of blood vessels and improves their elasticity. Choleretic, antimicrobial and anti-sclerotic properties are highly valued. Clover honey added to green tea removes toxins from the body. The astringent properties of the plant are used to stop various kinds of bleeding. In cosmetology, clover is used to cleanse the skin, removing purulent and acne breakouts.
Cooking use
Clover is used as a main dish or as an additive. The flowers and leaves of the plant have nutritional value, they are rich in vitamins and minerals and can be used for making salads. Light soups in vegetable or meat broth are also prepared from it. An egg and sour cream are added to the finished dish. For seasoning soups, clover powder obtained from dried leaves is used. It is also added to bread and muffins. For those who follow their figure, nutritious clover cutlets, to which cabbage and quinoa leaves are added, are suitable.
Conclusion
Clover has long been used in animal husbandry for feeding animals; in terms of nutritional properties, it is not inferior to concentrated feed. It has a good effect on the structure of the soil, supplying it with nitrogen fertilizer.
Some species of this plant are valuable honey plants. has a pleasant taste and aroma, does not crystallize, has a high quality. Long flowering and high content of pollen and nectar in clover inflorescences give good honey productivity.
Perennial herb with straight, slightly pubescent stems, small pale or dark red small flowers, collected in spherical heads. Good honey plant and excellent forage plant. Improves soil fertility by enriching it with nitrogenous compounds. It is widely used in medicine, in particular in dermatology.
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Flower formula
Flower formula of meadow clover: H (5) K1 + 2 + (2) T (9) + 1P1.In medicine
Red clover is not an official plant and is produced in the form of dietary supplements.
In dermatology
Clover is taken orally for allergic (as antipruritic, normalizing the function of the adrenal cortex) and infectious-allergic diseases with a predominant inflammatory lesion of the blood vessels of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (as an anti-inflammatory agent that reduces the permeability of the vascular walls). Outwardly, lotions are made from clover inflorescences for burns, poultices for boils. A decoction of the herb is used for baths for allergic skin diseases, hyperkeratosis, seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, and furunculosis. Fresh juice, decoction or infusion of flowers is rubbed into the hair roots with premature graying. A warm decoction of flowers is applied to areas of the skin covered with acne.
In the national economy
Vitamin concentrates are obtained from clover leaves. Essential oil is used in aromatic compositions. Red clover is a valuable honey plant, but nectar is available only to bees with a long proboscis, so honey productivity is only 6 kg of honey per hectare of crops. Salads are prepared from clover leaves, they are seasoned with green cabbage soup, botvinia. In the Caucasus, young unblown flower heads are fermented like cabbage and added to green salads.
Classification
Meadow clover (Latin Trifolium pratense) is a plant from the genus Clover (Latin Trifolium), the legume family (Latin Fabaceae, or Papilionaceae).
Botanical description
The plant is perennial, herbaceous, has an erect or erect stem from 20 to 60 cm in height and the next leaf arrangement. Taproot, branched, often with nodules of nitrogen assimilating bacteria. Leaves petiolate, with stipules, ternary, elliptical plates, often with a white pattern on the upper side, folding at night. The flowers are moth, pale or dark red, collected in capitate inflorescences, surrounded by apical leaves below. Flower formula of meadow clover: H (5) K1 + 2 + (2) T (9) + 1P1. The fruit is a single-seeded ovoid pod with small ovoid flattened seeds of yellow or brown color. Blooms from May to September.
Spread
Grows throughout Europe, in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), Western and Central Asia. On the territory of Russia, meadow clover grows almost everywhere, except for the Far North, in moderately moist and dry meadows, glades, forest edges, in thickets of bushes, on the outskirts of fields throughout Russia. It is cultivated as a valuable forage crop that improves soil fertility.
Distribution regions on the map of Russia.
Procurement of raw materials
Inflorescences with apical leaves serve as medicinal raw materials. They are harvested during flowering. Tear off by hand or cut off with a knife a whole inflorescence with a wrapper, without peduncles, loosely placed in baskets and quickly dried in the shade, under a canopy or in a dryer at a temperature of 60 - 70 ° C, making sure that the raw material does not dry out, as it loses its value. The inflorescences are stored in a closed container for 2 years, the grass for 1 year. Sometimes roots are harvested as a medicinal raw material. They are dried in the usual way.
Chemical composition
The aerial part of clover contains glycosides tripolin and isotrifoline, carbohydrates, steroids, saponins, vitamins C, B, E and K, carotene, phenolcarboxylic acids, coumarins, fatty oil, tannins, quinones, essential oil, higher fatty acids, trace elements.
During the flowering period, the aerial part contains protein (2-25%), fats (2.5-3.5%), carotene (up to 0.01%), ascorbic acid (up to 0.12%), free amino acids (up to 1.5%), fiber (24-26%), nitrogen-free extractives (more than 40%), calcium and phosphorus salts. Flavones and flavonols (kaempferol, quercetin, pratoletin, etc.), isoflavones (genistein, formononetin, etc.) are found in grass and flowers.
After mowing the aboveground part, up to 150 kg / ha of nitrogen accumulates in the roots. Seeds contain up to 12% semi-drying fatty oil.
Pharmacological properties
Clover has expectorant, diuretic, choleretic, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-sclerotic, antitoxic, hemostatic, wound-healing, analgesic, and antitumor properties.
Application in traditional medicine
In folk medicine, inflorescences (flowers) are used, collected during the period of full flowering , less often the aerial part (grass). Here are some of the recipes:
Clover inflorescence decoction: brew 20 g of inflorescences per 250 ml of boiling water, cook for 15 minutes, then leave for 30 minutes, drain. Drink 50 ml 3-4 times a day for urolithiasis, chronic cough, bronchial asthma, anemia, scrofula. Externally use for lotions for burns, frostbite, bedsores, abscesses, wash festering wounds, ulcers.
Clover herb infusion: brew 40 g of herbs per 200 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, drain. Drink 50 ml 3 - 4 times a day for coughs, colds.
Infusion of clover inflorescences: brew 30 g of flower heads in 200 ml of boiling water, then leave for 1 hour in a warm place in a sealed container, strain. Take 50 ml 4 times a day 30 minutes before meals for chronic cough, gastritis, skin diseases, colitis, cholecystitis, diathesis. To wash wounds, ulcers, make lotions on inflamed areas, carbuncles, boils.
Tincture of leafy clover tops: pour 500 ml of 40% alcohol or strong vodka 40 g of raw materials, leave for 14 days, strain. Take 20 ml before lunch or before bedtime for atherosclerosis with normal blood pressure, accompanied by headaches and tinnitus. The course of treatment is 3 months with a break of 10 days. After 6 months, the course of treatment can be repeated.
The medicinal properties of clover preparations are used for anemia, painful menstruation, inflammation of the bladder, profuse uterine bleeding, for the prevention of atherosclerosis, externally for baths with rickets in children. A decoction of the roots is indicated for inflammation of the ovaries and as an antineoplastic agent. Freshly crushed leaves are used externally to stop bleeding, heal wounds, burns, abscesses and rheumatic pains. Fresh juice from the aerial part of the clover is effective for suppuration of the nail bed and fingers, cutaneous tuberculosis in the treatment of panaritium, hernia, ear and nose diseases . Also, meadow clover grass is used for acute diseases of the respiratory tract, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic rheumatism, asthenia and kidney disease.
Clover is contraindicated for use in pregnant women, as well as for varicose veins, thrombophlebitis. Also, clover should not be used for people who have a tendency to diarrhea, stomach pain, estrogen-dependent cancer. It is not recommended to use decoctions and infusions of clover for heart disease, stroke.
History reference
Clover cultivation began in the 14th century in Northern Italy, from where the culture spread to Holland and then to Germany. In 1633, red clover came to England. In Russia, it has been cultivated since the middle of the 18th century. In the past, dried clover leaves were added to flour, when baking rye bread, and also used to make sauces and in the production of cheeses. Since ancient times, clover has served as an integral part of aromatic healing baths and medicinal teas.
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