Clover tilled: medicinal properties of the plant

The use of herbs and decoctions of them was considered the first remedy long before the appearance of the first medicines. Virtually every disease can be alleviated or even cured with properly selected and brewed herbs. With what ailments the clover of grazing can help and what is its special strength, it is worth knowing more.

How to find clover?

Among the riot of meadow grasses, it is the healing plover that can be found. The height of the plant does not exceed 20-25 centimeters. It has a characteristic kind of inflorescence: white or light red fluffy balls or ellipses. Thanks to this unusual kind of flowers, the clover of grazed people received their national names: cat's clover or seals.

Find it most easily in the forest or on the site of the cut down forest. The clover starts from June and does not cease until the beginning of October. It is during this period that it is necessary to search for and prepare this medicinal plant for the preparation of broths and teas. It will not be difficult for anyone to find a clover tilled. The photo below will help you make the right plant and not make mistakes.

What is its curative strength?

Widespread medical application received flowers and stems of clover. This is explained by the fact that the plant is rich in useful substances, the properties of which are indispensable for various diseases.

The greatest value in the healing effect of clover of plowland is its components:

• essential oils;
• Vitamin E;
• ascorbic acid;
• Resins;
• Substances with tannic properties.

Such a composition provides a pronounced astringent effect, as well as an anti-inflammatory effect, which makes it possible to widely use plover clover in medicine. The use of this plant provides a reduction in pain syndrome, a diuretic effect, and also helps to reduce blood sugar levels. Such a wide range of action allows you to use a decoction of clover for various diseases.

What kind of ailments does clover help?

Due to the pronounced astringent effect of tannins in the plant, clover is a very effective remedy for diarrhea of any etiology. Decoction of clover is prescribed for both adults and children, due to the fact that the plant has no significant side effects, unlike most traditional medical fixing drugs.

The anti-inflammatory effect of the plant makes it possible to use it in any painful conditions of the digestive system. In this clover will not only have a therapeutic effect on the stomach and intestines, but also favorably affect the character of the stool.

Decoction of clover is also prescribed for allergic dermatitis - it normalizes the work of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract and helps to eliminate toxins. As a result, the skin is significantly cleansed and less worried about the patient.

Patients with diabetes mellitus are also shown clover plowed as an additional or prophylactic therapy, but under the strict supervision of the attending physician.

How to prepare?

In order to make curative decoctions of clover at home, you can buy a ready-made box of herbs in the pharmacy, and you can prepare it yourself.

Collect the plant during the flowering period. For medicinal purposes, flowers, as well as stems of clover, are suitable. When cutting, you need to look at the plant to be healthy, not damaged by diseases or pests.

Cut the necessary amount of clover, it must be dried. For this, the plants are laid out on a dry, clean surface, without access to direct sunlight and with good fresh warm air. Periodically, the clover needs to be turned over, so that all the flowers and stems are dried out evenly, and also to prevent the plants from being banned. If there is no suitable area for drying, you can use automatic drying for fruit.

Evidence that the clover is completely dried will be its fragility and fragility. Dry plants need to be ground and folded in a glass or clay container, tightly closed with a lid and put in a dark place, such as a locker or in a pantry.

Preparing a healing broth

Prepare a remedy that can be used both inside as a tea, and as an external lotion, it's quite simple, having a pre-harvested clover plow. Description of the recipe is as follows:

• 2 tablespoons of the crushed dried plant to pour into the enamel or stainless bowl (pial);
• Pour the clover with a glass of clean cold water;
• Put on a stove in a saucepan with boiling water and in a water bath bring the broth from the grass to a boil;
• Boil over low heat for 3 minutes;
• Turn off the heat and let it brew for 5-10 minutes.
• Ready to strain through a strainer or gauze.

The healing decoction of the plover clover is ready for use. Apply it in a freshly prepared form, shelf life of the broth - no more than 12 hours at room temperature.

Knowing the useful properties of medicinal herbs is invaluable. After all, this information allows you not to take extra medicine and minimize the burden on the liver. But abuse of herbal infusions, too, is not worth it: ill-considered intake of medicinal herbs can not only not benefit, but also cause damage to health.