RED CLOVER
I wish everyone a good day and good health. Today we will talk in a little more detail about the healing plant, clover.
Red clover is a well-known meadow plant. She is often mentioned in fairy tales and fables. It is believed that the milk of a
cow that grazes in a meadow with clover will be especially tasty and healing.
Clover blooms beautifully - with bright, reddish cones, landscapes with blooming clover meadows are simply wonderful. But this small cute flower has medicinal power and benefits. This was known hundreds of years ago, and to this day, clover is included in many medicinal herbal collections. Clover is even compared to
ginseng, it helps so well. Stems, leaves, roots and flowers of red clover are used for treatment. They are harvested during the flowering period.
Medicinal properties of red clover
Red clover is the oldest medicine against cancer. Substances included in its chemical composition inhibit the growth of tumors and slow them down. There are known cases of complete cure from cancer. At the same time, red clover is included in the list of used medicinal products. It can also be used to prevent the development of cancer after treatment, to support the body to prevent recurrence.
It is believed that red clover is especially effective for breast cancer in women, ovarian cancer, and damage to the lymph nodes. Red clover is also used for such a disease as mastopathy, which can precede oncology. Clover helps the tightness in the chest to dissolve.
Red clover has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, which significantly expands the scope of its application. It is useful for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gout, soreness of the gall bladder, liver, intestines), viral and bacterial diseases of the ENT organs (angina, tonsillitis, acute respiratory infection), flu, colds, rheumatoid arthritis. Preparations based on it help relieve inflammation, restore tissues affected by the disease, and eliminate infection.
Red clover can also be used as an effective expectorant. It thins and removes sputum well, it is prescribed for bronchitis, pneumonia. Clover is also used for whooping cough. This plant helps to stop or relieve the suffocating, continuous cough that characterizes this dangerous infectious disease.
The diuretic property of red clover is also known. It can be used as the main medicine against edema and genitourinary infections, as well as as an auxiliary, for prevention. Red clover removes excess water from the body well, it is not only a diuretic, but also a diaphoretic.
Folk medicine successfully uses red clover to treat dermatological diseases such as eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis. It helps to heal, eliminate rashes, reduce their number or the area of damaged skin, and prolong the period of remission. Red clover can also help with baldness. Research has confirmed that it stimulates the production of natural collagen in the epidermis, which rejuvenates the skin, restores its elasticity, and smoothes wrinkles.
Clover also helps cleanse the body of toxins, removes harmful substances. It provokes sweating, dilutes bile, cleanses the intestines.
The ability of red clover to relieve pain is also noted. It helps with arthritis, vasculitis, joint pain, menstrual pain, etc.
Clover is used for anemia and physical exhaustion, it actively participates in hematopoiesis, helps restore body strength.
Medicinal effect of clover:
antitumor;
anti-inflammatory;
antimicrobial;
antifungal;
antisclerotic;
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antiallergic;
choleretic;
hemostatic;
expectorant;
astringent;
diuretic;
sweaty.
PART TWO
Use of red clover in folk medicine recipes
Various tinctures are prepared for general strengthening of the body, treatment, prevention of SARS, and prevention of cancer.
To prepare alcohol tincture, take one glass of red clover flowers and pour 500 ml of vodka over them, infuse for two weeks in a dark, dry place. The infusion should be shaken once every five days.
Clover tincture is drunk three times a month with breaks of 10 days. Medicines are taken one teaspoon on an empty stomach 15 minutes before meals.
From hypertension.
Take three tablespoons of dry red clover flowers and pour 300 ml of boiling water, boil in a water bath for 10 minutes and infuse for half an hour. The decoction is filtered and taken three times a day for 75 ml.
From inflammation of the lungs, bronchitis, whooping cough.
In order to quickly prepare medicine, an express tincture is prepared. A glass of clover flowers and leaves is poured with 200 ml of boiling water and infused in a thermos for 24 hours, periodically shaking it. You should get a very steep infusion - filter it and add the same amount of vodka, infuse for another couple of hours. After that, take a tablespoon three to four times a day before meals. For children, you can not add vodka, just use the infusion.
With mastopathy, ovarian tumors.
Take three tablespoons of crushed clover roots, three tablespoons of flowers and pour a glass of boiling water. Boil in a water bath for 20 minutes, infuse for an hour. Filter and drink the decoction during the day, diluting it with water. This treatment should be carried out together with drug therapy.
Clover for the skin - from wounds, abscesses, psoriasis, boils, dermatitis.
Pressed brewed clover is used for treatment, the amount depends on the area of damaged skin. The flowers are poured with boiling water, infused for an hour, then squeezed and wrapped in cheesecloth. The compress can be left overnight. You can also take baths with a decoction of red clover.
Good luck.