Useful and healing properties of clover meadow( red)
Perennial herbaceous plant 20-50 cm high. Root, branchy, often with nodules of nitrogen-assimilating bacteria. The main stem is shortened, blossoming stems with sessile triple leaves leave the sinus of the basal, long-petioled leaves. Leaflets of lower leaves ovate, finely toothed along margin, upper ones oblong, almost entire. Stipules fused at the base. Flowers are irregular, pink or red, in the head-shaped inflorescences, at the base the last two leaves are brought together. Fruit is a bean. Blooms from May to September.
Medicinal raw materials are inflorescences of the head with apical leaves collected during flowering. The smell is missing, the taste is sweet, astringent.
Clover flowers contain vitamin C, carotene, essential oil, glycosides - trifoline and isotripholine, fatty oils.
It is used in folk medicine. Clover in the form of a decoction is used for pulmonary diseases, anemia, loss of strength, weight loss, malnutrition, malignant tumors, bronchial asthma, rapid breathing, as an expectorant, diuretic and antiseptic, also apply( drink as tea) with fever, cold and chronic rheumatism, as well as with kidney disease.
External( in the form of poultices) is recommended to be used as an emollient and analgesic for burns and abscesses. The juice of fresh grass is used as a wound-healing remedy, with scrofula, the eyes are washed. Decoction of leaves and salt moisten the head with headaches. The vertebral tops collected during flowering are used for atherosclerosis with normal arterial pressure, accompanied by headaches and noise in the ears.
Application of
Tincture on vodka: 40 g per 0.5 L 40 ° alcohol, insist 10 days, filter and take 20 ml before dinner or at bedtime with atherosclerosis.
The course of treatment is 3 months with a break of 10 days. After 6 months you can repeat.
Broth 1: 20 g for 200 ml, for 1-2 tablespoons.spoons after 2-4 hours with cystitis.
Decoction 2: 20 g per 200 ml, 2-3 tbsp.spoons or half a cup 3 times a day or 1-2 tablespoons.spoons on a glass, brew like tea, take 2 tbsp.spoons 2-3 times a day with anemia, hypovitaminosis C.
When grazing on clover meadow, poisoning of animals( pigs) is possible. The cause of poisoning is the hydrocyanic acid formed in the plant.