Mountain Clover
Mountain clover is a member of the Saxifragaceae family. Its Latin name is Trifolium montanum L.
The family name of mountain clover itself is Saxifragaceae Juss.
Description of Mountain Clover
Mountain clover is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing from ten to thirty-five centimeters tall. Its root is straight, taprooted, and woody. The lower leaves of mountain clover are borne on long petioles, ranging in length from ten to twenty centimeters. The stem leaves, two to four in number, are borne on short petioles. Mountain clover leaflets are grayish in color, stiff, and elliptical in shape, growing on short petioles. These leaflets are 1. 5 to 6 centimeters long and about 1 to 2 centimeters wide. The plant’s flower heads are typically two per stem, supported by long, densely hairy stalks. These leaves are elliptical in shape, densely packed with many flowers, and approximately 1. 5 to 2. 5 centimeters long. The flower heads are approximately 7 to 9 millimeters long. The corolla of this plant is white, and the pods are usually two-seeded.
Mountain clover flowers in June, and fruiting begins in July. In the wild, this plant is found in European Russia, Belarus, the Caucasus, Western Siberia, Primorye in the Far East, Ukraine, and the Aral-Caspian region of Central Asia. It prefers forest edges, grassy slopes, dry meadows, mountain meadows, and meadow steppes.
Description of the medicinal properties of mountain clover
Mountain clover has valuable medicinal properties, and it is the herb that is recommended for medicinal purposes. The herb includes the inflorescences, flowers, stems, and leaves.
The plant’s valuable medicinal properties can be attributed to its essential oil, flavonoids, coumestrols, cellulose, coumarin, and the phenolic carboxylic acid melilotic. An infusion made from mountain clover is recommended for coughs and is also a valuable stomach remedy. A decoction of this plant’s herb is recommended for flu.
The essence of mountain clover flowers and inflorescences has found wide application in homeopathy: here, this highly valuable remedy is used for infectious mumps and other glandular diseases.
For coughs, bronchitis, and gastritis, a highly valuable remedy based on mountain clover is recommended: to prepare this remedy, take two tablespoons of crushed dried mountain clover per one cup of boiling water. The resulting mixture is recommended to steep for two hours in a warm place, after which time it should be thoroughly strained. Take the resulting mountain clover-based remedy one-third to one-quarter of a glass three times daily. It’s important to remember that to ensure maximum effectiveness when taking this remedy, you must not only strictly follow all the instructions for preparing it, but also carefully follow all the instructions for taking it. Only under these conditions will the desired effect of this mountain clover-based remedy be achieved.
