Red Clover Blossoms – Materia Medica

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Botanical Name: Trifolium Pratense

 

2. Common Name(s): Red Clover Flower

 

3. Habitat and Growing area:  Widely found though in moist waysides and in meadows left from hay. Grows on our farm and locally in Ontario.

 

4. Pertinent Information on the Plant:

• Alterative (blood purifier)
• Nervine (calm nervous tension and nourish the nervous system)
• Anti-spasmodic (calming nervous and muscular spasms or convulsions)
• Expectorant (facilitates removal of secretions)
• Nutritive (rich in vitamins and minerals; a source of easily assimilated nutrients)
• Antitumor
• Anti-neoplastics (aid the body in reasserting order and structured organization in the affected cancerous tissue)
• Eczema
• Acne
• Arthritis
• Respiratory system
• Heart
• Cradle cap tea (equal parts burdock root, mullein leaf)
• Chicken pox and measles

 

5. Your personal experience with the plant. Include your personal experience of tasting it and its effect on you.

Slightly sweet tasting, a very comforting cup of tea, one of my favorites!  I also just pick and eat and add to my smoothies.  Have had wonderful results with skin issues such as eczema.

 

6. The reference books used, author, page

 

Holistic Herbal

David Hoffmann

Pages 71, 72, 77-79, 93, 121, 127, 143, 146, 152, 220, 227

 

The way of Herbs

Michael Tierra

Pages 13, 32, 185, 312, 313

 

The complete Encyclopedia of Herbs

Nico Vermeulen

Pages 294

 

Family Herbal

Rosemary Gladstar

Pages 19, 106, 176, 187, 192, 210, 208, 218, 358-59

 

Peterson Field Guide

Easter/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs

Steven Foster and James A. Duke

Pages 179