Everyone who at least once in his life rested in a village, outside the city, this flower with a red head is well known, the children call it “red porridge”. Other names of the plant are red-headed, shamrock meadow, honey color, trinity. Red clover has been used in folk medicine for a long time, and modern healers recognize it. For treatment, red-purple buds collected in clover fields and dried in a draft are used. The plant is rich in glycosides, steroids, vitamins, carbohydrates, carotene, tannins. It also contains quinine, trifolysin, trace elements.
What ailments are treated with meadow clover?
The use of red clover is widespread due to its high therapeutic ability. Trifolizin, which is part of the plant, effectively fights fungal infections, steamed herbs treat wounds, bruises, purulent inflammations, and they apply it to joints for pain.
Use red clover in folk medicine to treat trophic ulcers, psoriasis, seborrhea, burns. To do this, make an infusion for lotions: take 2 large pinches of healing flowers, steamed with a glass of boiling water. Gauze napkins are lowered into the infusion, slightly squeezed and applied to sore spots.
Clover perfectly copes with respiratory diseases. Bronchitis, colds, whooping cough and even asthma recede before him, while the treatment is usually not very long. Tea from meadow clover has an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effect, this effect is due to salicylic acid, which is part of the composition.
To prepare it, use a handful of inflorescences brewed with boiling water. The tea is aged, filtered, add a small spoonful of honey and drink warm shortly before bedtime. A cold usually goes away in one night, but if not, you need to drink tea every eight hours (only after eating) until it is completely cured.
Red clover in folk medicine is well known for its bactericidal and anti-toxic properties, it is also an effective antispasmodic. In addition, its ability to increase disease resistance has been proven. This is due to the rich mineral and vitamin composition of the plant.
Decoctions of the plant are considered an excellent tool for cleaning the blood and reducing fat deposits in the vessels, they are very popular for the prevention of atherosclerosis. Such tea is prepared in the proportion: 6 dried buds / 250 gram glass. The drug is poured with water from a boiling kettle, wait a quarter of an hour, filter, mix honey into it, drink three times a day for a month or a half.
Red clover in folk medicine is considered an antitumor agent, it also has a diuretic, hemostatic, choleretic, expectorant effect.
Healing properties are inherent in the seeds of the plant. To treat impotence, a large spoonful of seeds is poured into a glass of red wine, the mixture is kept for half an hour on the smallest fire. You need to drink the infusion one large spoon three times a day until the function is fully restored.
Clover red: use in cosmetics
To lighten freckles, fresh seeds of the plant are rubbed into them. To get rid of diaper rash and pustules in infants, they are bathed in a bath with a decoction of flowers. In traditional medicine, red clover is used to improve the condition of hair, for this, after washing, they are rinsed with water, into which a decoction of the plant is added. Alcohol tincture of meadow clover roots is effective against hair loss, it is rubbed into the hair roots.
As you can see, the use of clover is observed in many areas of human activity. If you wish, you can still learn a lot about its properties by reading special literature.