Mountain clover: description and healing properties

Modern medicine is developing rapidly. There are new effective drugs and methods of treatment. However, people still, like hundreds of years ago, seek help from traditional healers and phytotherapeutists. What is the reason for this? With disbelief in the efficacy of modern medicines? Hardly. Just medicinal plants, which are so rich in our land, in many cases are really able to help in the fight against many formidable ailments, although they often have a lot of contraindications. Most often they are included in the complex therapy.

Today, the "hero" of our article will be goodknown to all clover mountain (family legumes). It is a herbaceous perennial plant from the subfamily Motylkov. It has many healing properties, thanks to which it is successfully used by folk healers all over the world.

Clover mountain: description

This plant is from twenty to sixtycentimeters, having a rod, straight, wooden root, which in the upper part can be two or three headed. Straight, single stems of it are short-ascending, rigid, simple, pressed-hairy, because of this they seem silky and grayish.

Stipules are ovate, leathery,Pointed, with well-marked veins and hairs. On the lower part of the stem leaves are located on long (up to twenty centimeters) petioles. From above they are shorter. The length of leaves can be up to six centimeters with a width of about three centimeters, at the ends are often pointed. The lower part of the plate is pubescent, with noticeable veins. Clover mountain, the photo of which you see in the article, has small flowers, which are often collected in inflorescences, but can also be solitary. Calyx bidentate or dentate. Corolla five-petalled, butterfly-shaped: upper petal - sail, lateral - paddles, the two lower ones are united in a boat.

Flowers have ten stamens, nine of whichgrow together, and the tenth (upper) remains free. One pestle has a clover mountain. The formula of the flower - W5L1 + 2 + (2) T (9) + 1P1 - is typical for beans, peas and other legumes.

Bloom

Mountain clover blossoms in a very peculiar way: in each head the tubes are blown upwards, gradually. Flowering lasts no more than thirty days. The flowers open almost to noon and very early to close.

Clover mountain is an excellent honey. During flowering, bees collect nectar from the plant. Seeds will ripen in August. This, like other varieties of clover, double-seeded beans.

Spread

Mountain clover (or white hair is one of the folknames of plants), indisputably - one of the most widespread species in the family. It is found throughout the territory of Belarus, the Caucasus, the Crimea, Western Siberia, Central Europe, quite often it can be seen in the foothills of Central Asia. He prefers open places and dry soils. He likes to master the slopes of beams, hills, ravines. During flowering (from the first days of June to the beginning of August), he transforms the landscape he populates into a solid, fragrant white carpet.

What does it contain?

Mountain clover is a plant that has many useful properties. For medicinal purposes, only its stems, leaves and flowers are used. The white head is rich in:

• essential oils;
• vitamins of group B;
• carotene;
• trifolin;
• vitamin C;
• flavonoids;
• coumarin.

In addition, the mountain clover grass is richvegetable proteins, which revealed more than 15%, and vegetable fats - slightly more than 3%. Traditional medicine has not yet applied clover clover in the manufacture of medicines, nevertheless in folk medicine it is very common and quite successfully used.

Clover mountain: medicinal properties and application

In folk medicine, the plant is used as aexpectorant, diuretic and anti-inflammatory. On the basis of clover, infusion or broth is prepared, which is taken with bronchial and pulmonary diseases, various edema, pain sensations in the gastrointestinal tract. With a hernia recommend a strong broth of herbs to drink on an empty stomach. Inflorescences can be brewed as tea and drink with whites in women, as well as hemorrhoids.

Outwardly it is used as warm compresses fromdecoction of flowers (with burns and abscesses). With hemorrhoids appoint sedentary baths. The essence of the inflorescence and flowers of clover has found wide application in homeopathy, for the treatment of infectious mumps.

The clover is particularly effective in therapybronchitis, cough and gastritis. Infusion for the treatment of these diseases is prepared as follows. Two tablespoons of dry shredded herbs pour 250 ml of boiling water. The resulting composition of cover and set aside for about two or two and a half hours to present it in a warm place. When the time has expired, carefully strain the product, squeeze out the raw materials. Composition bring to the original volume of boiled water.

Take this medicineyou need 1/3 cup three times a day. In order to maximize the effect of treatment, observe the norms for the preparation of infusion, as well as recommended doses of use.

As a forage plant, cloverhas become widespread in livestock. This is due to the fact that the stalk of the plant is rather stiff and has a margin. Nevertheless, wild animals enjoy eating it with pleasure.

Despite the fact that mountain clover does not cause, asusually side effects, there may be an allergic reaction to some of the substances that are contained in it, so do not go into treatment without consulting a doctor.

Clover: interesting facts

• Since ancient times, the trefoil of the plant has become in Europe a symbol of the Holy Trinity.
• The image of clover is often used in ornaments, architectural elements, in jewelry art. This image is most popular in Gothic.
• Many European city coats of arms have a clover leaf in their image.
• A special luck is a find of a plant with four leaves, it brings fulfillment of desires and happiness.
• In the Middle Ages, many people carried a leaf of the clover with them. It was believed that he protects the owner from failures.
• Used this plant and with various guessing.
• In many countries coins with a picture of a clover leaf were minted. For example, in 1775 the clover thaler was released.
• Everyone knows the suit of playing cards. Two of them are drawings of leaves. A sheet of linden is peaks, well, clubs are a leaf of a clover.

Clover and magic

Psychics and magicians consider the clover leafmagic tool. They are sure that this plant has a warm aura. Clover refers to the four elements, but Mercury has a particularly powerful influence on it. Often it is used in witchcraft rituals. There is an opinion that the leaf of clover, seen in a dream, foreshadows fame, wealth and success.