Cultivated Clover

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Cultivated clover is one of the plants of a family called legumes, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Trifolium arvense L. As for the name of the plowed clover family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Fabaceae Lindl.

Description of plowed clover

Plowed clover is also known under the popular name of seals. Plow clover is an annual plant endowed with straight, branchy, densely pubescent stems, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and thirty centimeters. The leaves of this plant are only stem, they are compound and trifoliate, and are also endowed with linear-oblong and finely toothed leaves. The flowers of this plant have a very small corolla, painted in pale pink tones. Such a rim will be hidden in the very depth of the calyx. The plowed clover heads seem to be rather fluffy due to the long shaggy teeth of the calyx, which will be preserved during the fruit. The fruit of the plowed clover is a single-seeded leathery bean.

The flowering of this plant occurs in the summer period. Under natural conditions, this plant will be found on the territory of the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia, and as an invasive plant, plow clover is found in the Caucasus, Belarus, the Far East and Ukraine. For growth, this plant prefers dry forests, clearings, arable lands, dry meadows, mainly on sandy loams and sands.

Description of the medicinal properties of plowed clover

Plowed clover is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes stems, leaves, and flower heads. Such raw material of plowed clover should be harvested in the period from June to July.

The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of tannins, tridomin glycoside, quercetin, resinous substances, essential oil, vitamins C and E, as well as a small amount of alkaloids and some other substances in the herb of this plant. The herb of this plant is endowed with very effective anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, astringent, analgesic, diuretic and hypoglycemic effects.

As for traditional medicine, an infusion prepared on the basis of the herb of this plant is quite widespread here. Such a remedy is recommended for diarrhea, dysentery, migraine, neurosis, kidney and bladder diseases, suffocation, diabetes mellitus, bronchitis, and also for colitis in children. Poultices from this plant can also be used externally for rheumatism, gout, cough and chest pain, and a broth based on plowed clover should be used to wash ulcers and purulent wounds.

For allergic dermatitis, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on plowed clover: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take three teaspoons of dry grass for one glass of boiling water. The resulting mixture should be boiled for one hour in a sealed container, after which such a mixture based on plowed clover should be very thoroughly filtered. Take such a remedy in slow sips, one third or one fourth of a glass twenty minutes before the start of a meal four times a day.

For anesthetic poultices, the following remedy is used: about three to four tablespoons of plowed clover grass are taken and boiled with boiling water, and then the resulting mixture is wrapped in cheesecloth. For washing purulent wounds, the following is used: take three tablespoons of dry grass plowed clover into two cups of boiling water and insist for one hour, and then filter this mixture.