What is Trifolium pratense,Red Clover?History,Phytochemicals and Remedy Uses of Red Clover Blossoms.Red Clover Extract.

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Basic Botanical Data of Red clover.

Polygonum Cuspidatum Extract Resveratrol CAS.NO 510-36-0 photo picture image Botanical Source:Trifolium pratense
 Scientific Name:Trifolium pratense L.
 Official Latin Name:Trifolium pratense
 German = weisenklee;French = Triolet;Spanish = Trebol;Italian = Moscino
 Family: Fabaceae (Pea);N.O. Leguminosae.
 Botanical Synonyms and Common names:Wild clover,cow clover, meadow clover, Trefoil,Purple Clover,Meadow Trefoil, Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Sweet Clover, Wild Clover, Cow Clover, and Purple Clover, Bee-bread, Cow Clover, Meadow Clover, Purple Clover, Red Clover, Trefoil, Wild Clover
 Gramatology Description:pray-TEN-see(Meaning: Referring to a meadow)"Pratense" is Latin for "found in meadows",The species epithet "pratense" comes from the Latin for "meadows dweller".

 Habitat of Red clove:Foothills, montane, subalpine. Meadows. Spring.Red Clover is wide-spread, ranging from city lots to farm fields to mountain meadows.the Mediterranean region, Balkans, Asia Minor, Iran, India, Himalayas, Russia from Arctic south to east Siberia, Caucasus, and the Far East. It spread to England ca 1650 and was carried to America by British colonists.

 Plant Part Used:

 Blossoms,The flowers are used as a cleansing herb for skin complaints, they are also useful for coughs and have been widely used for bronchitis and whooping cough. They have also been used as anti-cancer remedies and may still be prescribed to breast, ovarian and lymphatic cancer sufferers.

 Common Action:The plants flowers are traditionally used as an alternative (cleansing waste material), antispasmodic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, possible oestrogenic activity,Sedative dermatological agent, alterative, expectorant, mildly antispasmodic, relaxant, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, possibly oestrogenic.

 Phyto-chemicals in brief:Caffeic acid, silicic acid, salicylic acid, coumarins, genestein, daidzein, sistosterol.

 Western Properties:Alterative, anti-spasmodic, diuretic, expectorant, anti-cancer, estrogenic.

 Indications:anti-cancer remedy,blood purifier, chronic skin disease,Used for eczema, psoriasis, cancer (breast, ovarian, lymphatic system), gout, dry cough, menopausal problems,Cooling/Detoxifying Herb for Heat patterns, whooping cough,stimulates eostrogenic,women health banlancer,increasing fertility.

 Red Clover has traditionally been used internally for skin conditions, especially eczema and psoriasis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, or lymphatic cancer, chronic degenerative diseases, gout, whooping cough, and dry cough. It may relax muscle spasms

 Plant Description:

 Trifolium is a biennial or perennial plant reaching a height of up to 60cm. It is widespread throughout the world in grassy areas and thrives in the more humid upland areas. It has a short rootstock which produces several simple or slightly branched reddish stems with close-pressed whitish hairs. There is a basal rosette of long-stalked leaves. The stem leaves are alternate, the lower ones long-stalked with oval, tapering stipules, and the upper ones short-stalked to almost sessile. The palmate leaves have three oval to oblong-oval or obovate leaflets which are minutely toothed and sometimes blotched with a whitish crescent towards their base. The globular red to purple flowerheads grow in a dense, ovoid head in the axils of the upper and lateral leaves. Each flowerhead contains thirty to sixty sessile bractless florets. The calyx is hairy and the fruit is a pod.

 Collection: The flowers are gathered between June and September.

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last edit date:5th,May.2009.