Clover meadow (red) - trifolium pratense l.

Family Legumes - Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

Botanical characteristics. Perennial herbaceous plant. Root stem, branchy. The main stem is shortened. Out of the sinuses of the roots leaves flowering shoots. Leaves are triple, the leaves of the lower leaves are ovoid, finely toothed, upper oblong, almost whole, sessile. Flowers are dark pink in the head buds. Fruit is a bean. Blooms from May to October, fruiting until late autumn.

Spread. It grows on forest edges, meadows, on slopes, in crops as weed.

Used parts of the plant. Medicinal raw materials are the aboveground part, inflorescences, leaves, less often roots, collected in the usual way.

The aerial part and leaves contain carbohydrates (soluble sugars, their isomers and derivatives, starch), vitamins (K, E, group B, carotene, folic and folinic acids), tannins, flavonoids (flavonols and isoflavones), pterocat pans, quinones, steroids , Saponins, waxes, lipids, sterols and their ethers, coumarins, couestroles.

Chemical composition. The flowers contain aromatic, phenolic and nitrogen-containing compounds, essential oil, phenolcarbonic acids: salicylic, coumaric; Tannins, flavonoids: iso-raminetin, trifolin, pectolinarin, biohainin, pratol, quercetin derivatives and kaempferol; Anthocyanins, higher aliphatic hydrocarbons and alcohols, higher fatty acids.

Application. In folk medicine, clover has long been used in the form of tea, infusions and decoctions with exhaustion and anemia, as well as a diuretic and diaphoretic. Fresh inflorescences are used for food. Decoction of the roots - with hernia, inflammation of the appendages, as an antitumor agent. Decoctions of flowers and leaves are used for dizziness, headache, as anti-sclerotic, in rickets, astringent, antiseptic, asthenia, anemia, dyspnea, bronchial asthma, as anticarcinogenic, with renal colic, pyelonephritis, upper respiratory tract diseases, whooping cough, Hypertension, gallbladder and bile duct disease, hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding, heavy menstruation, malignant tumors, pulmonary tuberculosis.

In the experiment, clover meadow preparations show bactericidal activity. The complex of biologically active compounds helps to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood, normalizes fat metabolism, exerts a strengthening effect on the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, improves their elasticity and decreases permeability; Protects cells from the damaging effects of free radicals formed in a weakened organism in excess; Has a beneficial effect on the body with concomitant atherosclerosis diseases, with a decrease in noise in the ears, decreased intracranial and arterial pressure, dizziness disappears, and hearing improves.

Clover drug "Atherokefit" is recommended for improving the state of the cardiovascular system, in violation of the metabolism of fats and cholesterol.

In the United Kingdom and the United States, decoction of inflorescences and in the form of patches, compresses, and poultices are used in malignant tumors.

In Czechoslovakia - is part of the breast and stomach charges.

In the Caucasus, the infusion of the aerial part is made with gynecological diseases, with gout and poisoning; Fresh juice - with scrofulous, as wound healing.

Decoctions and infusions of roots and flowers of clover are used in the form of rinses for inflammatory diseases of the oral mucosa, gingivitis, angina; In the form of lotions - with abscesses, eye diseases; In the form of syringings - in gynecology. Fresh leaves are applied for panaric attacks.

Young plants are used in cooking; Fodder for animals, honey.

Preparation

• To get the infusion, take 20 g of leaves and flowers, pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist on a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, cool 45 minutes, filter. Take 1/3 cup 2-3 times a day, regardless of food intake.
• The finished preparations are used according to the instructions to the preparations.

In homeopathy Trifolium 3x, 3 is used with neurocirculatory dystonia and respiratory diseases with convulsive suffocating coughing at night and hoarseness of the voice.