Do you know what woodpecker is? What about red porridge or cuckoo bread? Do not know and have not seen? But this is all the red clover so beloved by the people , and it is also called meadow clover. The use of this plant is diverse. It has a lot of properties that are useful to us and is used in various branches of our lives.
Since ancient times, clover has been used for dyeing fabrics, baking bread, dressing soups and other dishes. Due to its widespread distribution, meadow clover has become incredibly popular among the people. The use in traditional medicine is also widespread. This plant belongs to the legume family. Use all of its aerial parts, but most often it is the flowers that are collected at the very beginning of their flowering. It is very carefully dried, avoiding drying out, and stored in a cool place for no more than two years.
Astringent, wound healing, hemostatic, choleretic, diuretic, analgesic, expectorant, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic action has meadow clover. Its application is so great, because it simply includes a mass of useful substances. These are tyrosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine and asparagine, which are in the leaves. Palmitic, oleic and leonic acids. A lot of coloring and tannins. Fatty and essential oil. And also resins, biochanin, saponins, organic acids, carotene, steroids, pratenzene, hydroquinone, glycosides and flavonoids. In addition, there is a whole range of vitamins: B, K, E and C.
In scientific medicine, meadow clover is not yet used, the use of which among the people, on the contrary, is very multifaceted. In addition to being an excellent honey plant and livestock feed, since ancient times it has been used to treat serious diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, various colds, asthma, anemia, scrofula and rheumatism. An indispensable tool for abscesses, burns and other types of inflamed and festering wounds is meadow clover. Treatment is carried out with the help of infusion made from its above-ground part and necessarily flowers. To make it is very simple: you need to pour the required amount of dry grass with boiling water and let it brew for an hour. Many healers recommend taking meadow clover instead of tea.
Treatment for a tumor or inflammation of the ovaries is carried out using a decoction made from its roots. We take the crushed roots (one part) and fill them with boiling water (ten parts). Hold in a water bath for half an hour and filter, add the required amount of boiled water to get the original volume. Reception should be made every three to four hours, one spoon until all symptoms of inflammation disappear completely. With atherosclerosis, anemia and headache, you can drink the broth instead of tea no more than three times a day. It is also good for cleansing the blood. It is best to drink the broth for half an hour - an hour before eating, with the addition of a spoonful of natural honey. With heavy menstruation, bleeding and hemorrhoids - this is the first remedy. For lotions and wraps, a decoction is also used, but you can take fresh, washed leaves, which are periodically replaced with new ones. They can be collected from mid-spring to autumn. Many people use them in salads, pickle, pour boiling water over and use instead of spinach.
Nursing women to increase the amount of milk is also useful meadow clover. He has practically no contraindications. But still it is not recommended to use it at the time of pregnancy, during an exacerbation of gastric diseases, with pain in the heart and with diarrhea. Experts do not recommend it to people with oncology in an estrogen-dependent form. In all other cases, it is very useful, easily accessible and maximally effective.