The use of herbs and decoctions of them was considered the first remedy long before the first medicines appeared. Almost every disease can be alleviated or even cured with the help of properly selected and brewed herbs. With what ailments plowed clover will help to cope and what is its special power, you should find out more.
How to find clover?
Among the riot of meadow grasses, it is not difficult to find a medicinal plowed clover. Plant height does not exceed 20-25 centimeters. It has a characteristic appearance of inflorescences: white or light red fluffy balls or ellipses. Thanks to this unusual type of flowers, plowed clover got its popular names: cat clover or seals.
It is easiest to find it in the forest or on the site of a cut down forest. Clover begins to bloom from June and does not stop until early October. It is during this period that you need to look for and harvest this medicinal plant for making decoctions and teas. It will not be difficult for anyone to find plowed clover. The photo below will helpmake a mistake and harvest the right plant.
What is its healing power?
Clover flowers and stems have received wide medical use. This is explained by the fact that the plant is rich in useful substances, the properties of which are indispensable for various diseases.
The following components have the greatest value in the therapeutic effect of plowed clover:
- essential oils;
- vitamin E;
- ascorbic acid;
- resin;
- substances with tannic properties.
This composition provides a pronounced astringent effect, as well as an anti-inflammatory effect, which makes it possible to widely use plowed clover in medicine. The use of this plant provides a decrease in pain, a diuretic effect, and also reduces blood sugar levels. Such a wide spectrum of action allows the use of a decoction of clover for various diseases.
What ailments does clover help with?
Due to the pronounced astringent effect provided by tannins in the composition of the plant, plowed clover is a very effective remedy for diarrhea of any etiology. A decoction of clover is prescribed for both adults and children, due to the fact that the plant does not have pronounced side effects, unlike most traditional medical fixing drugs.
The anti-inflammatory effect of the plant allows it to be used in any painful conditions of the digestive system. Whereinclover will not only have a healing effect on the stomach and intestines, but will also favorably affect the nature of the stool.
Clover decoction is also prescribed for allergic dermatitis - it normalizes the functioning of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract and helps to remove toxins. As a result, the skin is significantly cleared and the patient is less disturbed.
Patients with diabetes are also shown plowed clover as an additional or preventive therapy, but under the strict supervision of the attending physician.
How to cook?
In order to make healing decoctions of clover at home, you can buy a ready-made box of herbs in a pharmacy, or you can prepare it yourself.
You need to collect the plant during its flowering period. For medicinal purposes, flowers are suitable, as well as clover stems. When cutting, you need to look so that the plant is he althy, not damaged by diseases or pests.
After cutting the required amount of clover, it needs to be dried. For this, the plants are laid out on a dry, clean surface, without access to direct sunlight and with good blowing with fresh warm air. Periodically, the clover must be turned over so that all the flowers and stems are evenly dried, and also to prevent the plants from rotting. If there is no suitable drying area, you can use the automatic fruit dryer.
Evidence that the clover is completely dry will be its fragility and brittleness. Dry plants need to be crushed and folded into a glass orearthenware container, tightly close the lid and store in a dark place, such as a cabinet or pantry.
Preparing a healing decoction
Preparing a remedy that can be used both inside as a tea and as external lotions is not difficult at all, having a pre-harvested plowed clover. The recipe description looks like this:
- Pour 2 tablespoons of crushed dried plant into an enameled or stainless bowl (bowl);
- fill the clover with a glass of clean cold water;
- put on the stove in a pot of boiling water and bring the herb decoction to a boil in a water bath;
- simmer for 3 minutes;
- turn off the fire and let the broth brew for 5-10 minutes.
- strain the finished herbal infusion through a sieve or gauze.
Healing decoction of plowed clover is ready for use. You need to use it freshly prepared, the shelf life of the decoction is no more than 12 hours at room temperature.
Knowledge of the beneficial properties of medicinal herbs is invaluable. After all, such information allows you not to take medications once again and minimize the load on the liver. But you should not abuse herbal infusions either: a thoughtless intake of medicinal herbs can not only not be beneficial, but also cause damage to he alth.
