Red Clover for Breast Cancer

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Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

 

Other Names: Meadow Honeysuckle, Meadow Trefoil, Purple Clover,

Trefoil, Wild Clover, Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Cow Grass

 

Habitat: (Trifolium pratense) Perennial herb, origin believed to be

Britain where it is abundant, now a world wide escape, naturalised in

nearly every country, even the Arctic Circle and high up into mountains.

Cultivation: Red Clover is an easily grown plant, from seed or root

cuttings, requires little attention. The long root is rhizome, and sends

out runners, producing several stems 1 to 2 feet high, slightly hairy;

leaves ternate, leaflets ovate, slightly toothed, ending in long point

often lighter colored V shape in center, flowers red to purple,

fragrant, in dense terminal ovoid or round heads. Blooming from April

thought out the summer months. Harvest flowers and dry for later herb

use as it comes into bloom. Harvest edible leaves for salad before

flowers fully bloom.

 

Properties: Red Clover is edible and medicinal, the young leaves and

new flowers are harvested, and are used in salads, soups, or as a pot

herb. The sprouted seeds are edible in salads and have a crisp texture

and robust flavor. A delicate sweet and medicinal tea is made from the

fresh or dried flowers, it is alterative, antiscrofulous, antispasmodic,

aperient, detergent, diuretic, expectorant, sedative and tonic. Red

Clover has also shown anticancer activity, poultices of the herb have

been used as local applications to cancerous growths. Internally, the

Red Clover plant is used as an alternative medicine for skin complaints

such as eczema and psoriasis, cancers of the breast, ovaries and

lymphatic system, chronic degenerative diseases, gout, whooping cough

and dry coughs. Red clover is now involved in research for a certain

medicinal alkaloid 'slaframine' which is often found in diseased clover,

this substance has shown antidiabetic and anti-AIDS activity.

 

Folklore: In the middle ages the clover was considered a charm warn to

ward off evil spirits and witches. The four leaf clover was said to have

even more power against evil, a five leaf clover was said to be warn by

witches to give them evil powers, and a two leaf clover would give a

maiden the power to see her future lover.

 

TRY THESE RECIPES

 

Medicinal tea: To 1 tbls. dry flowers or herb add 1 cup boiling water,

steep 10 min., sweeten to taste, drink warm for cough and upset stomach.

 

Article by Deb Jackson & Karen Shelton

 

http://altnature.com/gallery/Red_Clover.htm

 

 

 

 

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