Description.
The medicinal herb is an annual or biennial plant having a straight stem 0, 5-2, 5 m in height. From the middle of the stem branches begin, the leaves are collected in three, the next. Flowers are dangling, yellow, in numerous brushes, which reach a length of up to 15 cm. Fruits in the form of a bean, consisting of one or two seeds. The plant has a specific pleasant smell.
It is necessary to distinguish the officinal officinalis from the white clover and the denticle - the smell they do not have and should not be present in the medicinal raw material.
It grows like a weed on the slopes of ravines, vacant lots, along roads, and also on the outskirts of fields throughout the European part of Russia, in Siberia, in the Caucasus. On the flooded banks of the Volga, whole thickets are formed. Propagates only by seeds, blossoms in June and July, fruits ripen in August - September.
The tops of plants with flowers collected during flowering are used in medicine. Cut side shoots without large parts of stems and apex. The medicinal spring, growing at the edge of the road, can not be harvested, as it is covered with harmful substances of exhaust gases and dust. Prepare a sweet clover in dry weather, because the moist raw material quickly warms up and darkens. Lay the collected grass in a container is loose, then immediately sent to dry. Raw materials are dried in a draft in attics or under a canopy, spreading a thin layer, stirring occasionally. The yield of dry raw materials from the total freshly collected mass is from a quarter to one-third.
Chemical composition.
The stems and leaves of the medicinal sweet potato contain fiber, vegetable proteins, fats, vitamin C, tannins, essential oil, purine derivatives, aromatic coumarin.
Decoctions, infusions of herb millet have wound healing, antithrombotic, emollient, analgesic, expectorant action, and also lowers arterial pressure. Kumarin has an anticonvulsant, narcotic effect, calms (depresses the central nervous system). The use of clover in large quantities can cause poisoning.
Application in medicine.
Assign the officinal officinalis as a sedative for neuroses, with various diseases of the internal organs that arise against insomnia, menopause, premenstrual syndrome and increased excitability. It also helps with cramps.
Donnik removes the spasm of blood vessels, calms with increased arterial pressure, as a result of which the pressure goes down. With ischemic heart disease, the condition also improves due to the expansion of the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood. In addition, it prevents the formation of thrombi in the blood vessels.
From time immemorial, the medicinal milieu has been used in Russia as an anti-inflammatory and expectorant in the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the broncho-pulmonary system. Has a curative effect on the gastrointestinal tract, removing the spasm of smooth muscles of the intestine and stomach, resulting in such phenomena as pain and flatulence (bloating), decrease. Also has an easy laxative effect.
In folk medicine, the clover is also used as an external remedy for mastitis in nursing mothers (inflammation of the breast), with pustular skin diseases (even with furuncles), for purging purulent wounds.
But, in spite of the medicinal properties of this plant, it is considered poisonous, therefore it is recommended to take it inside as a part of various charges. Independently it is possible to apply only short courses, not exceeding the recommended dosages.
Donor medicinal is not recommended if there is a tendency to bleeding and increased bleeding. When poisoning with medicinal medicine, headache, hemorrhage, nausea, vomiting appear.
The national recipe.
- Infusion for oral administration:
2 teaspoons of chopped dry raw material, pour a half cup of boiling water, keep in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool for 45 minutes, add to the original level, strain, infuse for half an hour before meals 3 times a day for 1/3 cup;
- Infusion for external use:
is prepared the same way, but at the rate of 2 tablespoons for 2 cups of boiling water.