Sweet clover: its properties, cultivation and variety. Folk recipes with sweet clover. Medicinal use of sweet clover

Sin .: burkun, wild buckwheat, female sweet clover, yellow burkun, Italian grass, burkunets, bottom grass, yellow sweet clover, kamenitsa, sprinkler, gunba.

Biennial herbaceous plant with tall branched stems and large yellow flowers. Is medicinal raw materials for cooking anticonvulsants, is widely used in traditional medicine as an antiseptic, analgesic, wound healing, expectorant .

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In medicine

AT scientific medicine preparations (plaster sweet clover) from sweet clover grass are applied externally - they are applied to abscesses and boils as an external softening and distracting agent. Melilot officinalis is also used for baths for skin diseases. The coumarin contained in the sweet clover herb acts on the central nervous system depressant, has anticonvulsant and narcotic effect. In patients with leukopenia due to radiotherapy coumarin is effective, increases the number of leukocytes, and to a lesser extent - lymphocytes.

Sweet clover herb is included in the collection used to treat rheumatism and herpes, as well as in the collection Soothing No. 3, which has sedative and antispasmodic properties. In addition, it is part of the preparations of dietary supplements "Monastery Balm Danilovsky", gel "Venocorset".

Contraindications and side effects

It should be noted that coumarin large doses causes nausea, vomiting, headache has a paralyzing effect on smooth muscle.

In other areas

It is used as an aromatic agent in the food, confectionery, tobacco and cosmetic industries. It is a good honey plant and a valuable fodder plant. It is used as green manure to enrich the soil with nitrogen.

Classification

Sweet clover (lat. Melilótus officinális L.) - belongs to one of the largest families of legumes, or moths (lat. Fabaceae, or Papilionaceae). The family unites more than 9,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in all temperate continents.

Botanical description

Melilot officinalis is a biennial herbaceous plant with a whitish tap root and erect, branched, ribbed stems, pubescent in the upper part, from 50 to 100 cm or more in height. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, trifoliate with pointed lanceolate stipules. Leaflets with a finely serrated edge, oblong-oval. The flowers are small, 5-7 mm long, collected in drooping axillary racemes with long peduncles. Corolla yellow, zygomorphic (irregular) moth type. The formula of the sweet clover flower is Ch3.2L1.2, (2) T (5 + 4) 1P1. The fruit is a small, glabrous, oval, grayish, transversely wrinkled one-two-seeded bean, with an awl-shaped spout. Seeds are greenish-yellow, 1.8-2.2 mm long. Blooms in June-September. Seeds ripen from August.

Spreading

It is found throughout the European part of Russia, except for the Far North. Grows all over various types meadows, along forest edges, roadsides, wastelands, less often as a weed in crops and fields.

Distribution regions on the map of Russia.

Procurement of raw materials

The herb of the sweet clover is harvested in the flowering phase, cutting off the tops and side shoots up to 30 cm long. Rough and thick stems are removed, because they practically do not contain biologically active substances. They are dried in a room with good ventilation or in dryers at a temperature of 40 ° C. The dried grass is threshed, large stems are discarded. Medicinal raw material consists of a mixture of flowers, leaves, thin stems and a small amount of fruits, with a characteristic coumarin smell of fresh hay. The shelf life of medicinal raw materials is up to 2 years. Inadmissible impurities: white sweet clover (Melilotus albus Ders.), toothed sweet clover (Melilotus dentatus Pers.).

Chemical composition

The herb of the medicinal plant sweet clover contains coumarins and their derivatives (0.4-0.9%: coumarin, dicoumarol, dihydrocoumarin, melitoside glycoside), flavonoids (robinin, flovin, kaempferol and its derivatives), melilotin, essential oil(0.01%), polysaccharides (mucus), protein (17.6%), saponins, purine derivatives (allantoin), phenolcarboxylic acids (hydroxycinnamic, coumaric, melilotic), phenolic triterpene compounds, carbohydrate compounds, nitrogenous bases, amino acids, tannins, vitamin C (up to 389 mg%), vitamin E (more than 45 mg%), carotene (up to 84 mg%), fat-like substances (up to 4.3%), macro- and microelements (accumulates molybdenum, selenium). Nice smell the plant is given coumarin and melilotin. The seeds contain fatty acid(palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, arachidic, behenic, lignoceric), also in public sources of information there are indications of the formation of dicoumarin during certain conditions storage.

Pharmacological properties

Main active substance Melilot medicinal preparations are considered to be coumarin, which depresses the central nervous system, has anticonvulsant and narcotic effects, and is poisonous in large doses. Also contains dicoumarol, which is an anticoagulant indirect action, prevents blood clotting and the formation of blood clots. The presence of antihypoxic, anti-ischemic and other types of cardiotropic activity in sweet clover grass was established. Melilot medicinal preparations are used as a cardio- vascular agent. Infusion of sweet clover grass has an expectorant, anti-inflammatory effect.

Application in traditional medicine

In folk medicine, sweet clover is found various ways applications. Inside, in the form of a decoction for joint tumors, for painful periods, for headaches, during lactation as a milk extractor, and also for inflammation mammary glands. Apply a compress externally festering wounds ah and ulcers, boils, rheumatism, take baths with inflammation of the ovaries.

History reference

The generic name comes from the Greek melilotus (honey clover), which is derived from meli (honey) and lotos (the name of many forage grasses, including trifoliate clover). The leaves of sweet clover are also trifoliate. The specific name officinalis is pharmaceutical, medicinal. In the literature there is information about other names of the plant: yellow clover, kamenitsa, aspergill, gunba.

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For many centuries, experience has been accumulated in the treatment various diseases medicinal herbs. In medicine, medicinal sweet clover (yellow burkun), lat. Melilotus officinalis. This can be found in temperate latitudes, in different areas: in the field, in the meadow, along the road. The beneficial properties of sweet clover are numerous due to its chemical composition.

Chemical composition

Chemical composition sweet clover is very rich and contains:

• coumarins and their derivatives;
• protein (17.6%);
• Sahara;
• vitamin C (up to 389 mg), vitamin E (more than 45 mg), carotene (up to 84 mg);
• lactone;
• glycoside;
• flavonoids (robinin, flovin, kaempferol);
• melilotin;
• essential oil (0.01%);
• polysaccharides (mucus);
• saponins;
• allantoin;
• hydroxycinnamic, coumaric, melilotic acids;
• phenolic triterpene compounds;
• carbohydrate compounds;
• nitrogenous bases;
• amino acids;
• tannins;
• fat-like substances (up to 4.3%);
• macro- and microelements (accumulates molybdenum, selenium);
• fatty acids (found in seeds).

Beneficial features

Grass sweet clover has numerous, but do not forget about contraindications. It lowers blood pressure, has an antispasmodic effect in patients with angina pectoris, atherosclerosis.

It has a calming effect on cardiospasm, anxiety, excitability, insomnia, headache, menopause. It is used as a mucolytic agent for coughs, bronchitis, introduced into the ingredients of laxative tea.
It is used externally for wound healing, treatment of boils, joint tumors, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. Useful properties of sweet clover "work" in, if not medical contraindications. The main ones are allergy to, as well as individual intolerance to its components.

• improves immunity;
• restores the body in the postoperative period;
• useful for shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches;
• promotes lactation in lactating women, etc.

Did you know? In total, there are 22 species of sweet clover in nature. Not all of them have useful properties.

Collection and storage of medicinal raw materials

Collect side shoots and flowering upper part plants during the summer months. Thick stems are of no value, it is better to throw them away.
Grass is recommended to be collected in meadows, in the field, on forest edges, away from roads, settlements, enterprises, treatment facilities, etc.

dried collected material in a shaded place, spread out in a layer of 3-5 cm at a temperature not exceeding 32 ° C. After drying, dried flowers and leaves (without stems) are crushed.

Important! You can not dry healing herbs in the open sun.If stored incorrectly, mold appears on the grass, and instead of a plant with healing properties sweet clover becomes poison.

Store in closed containers in a dry place for up to 2 years.

Traditional medicine recipes

For treatment, tinctures, ointments, tea are made from harvested or pharmacy burkun, sweet clover honey, steamed grass are used.

1. Infusion for internal use: 2 tsp dry sweet clover pour 1.5 tbsp. distilled water, insist 4 hours and consume 0.5 cups 40 minutes before meals. It has a sedative, analgesic, antitussive effect.
2. For rubbing, compresses: 2 tbsp. l. herbs pour 2 cups of boiled water. Insist 20 minutes.
3. For baths: 2 tbsp. l. dry raw materials pour 1 cup boiling water. Infuse for 10 minutes (sciatica, rheumatism, sprains).
4. Ointment preparation: 2 tbsp. l. fresh flowers mixed with 2 tbsp. l. butter and heat over very low heat for 7-10 minutes. Apply with furunculosis, abscesses, sprains.
5. Tincture: 100 g of dried yellow burkun pour a bottle (0.5 l) of vodka and leave for 2-3 weeks. Drink 10-12 drops before meals 3 times a day. Treats frequent migraines, hormonal disruptions, infertility, endometriosis.
6. For pain and swelling joints, wrap bags with steamed grass for 15-20 minutes before going to bed for 8-10 days.
7. Sweet clover honey is necessary for nursing mothers. Take 1 dessert spoon after each meal.
8. With cough, tracheobronchitis, pneumonia honey mixed with juice black radish and consume 1 dessert spoon 20 minutes before meals.

Did you know? Sweet clover honey occupies 50-70% of the US honey market.

Application in cooking

Melilot officinalis is used in cooking as a seasoning for fish dishes and soups, they also eat salads with this plant, sweet clover tea and.

• Salad Recipe:

• Donnikov tea:

Contraindications and side effects

The yellow sweet clover has not only medicinal properties but also medical contraindications. Contraindications: pregnancy, lactation, reduced clotting blood, bleeding, kidney disease. Donnikovoy honey should not be used by allergy sufferers.
Before starting treatment, a doctor's consultation is necessary. When using, strictly adhere to the dosage. In large doses, it depresses the nervous system. Side effects there may be insomnia, headache, nausea, vomiting, bleeding of mucous membranes.

Possesses folk names such as: "yellow sweet clover", "Italian grass", "meadow burkun", "wild buckwheat", "bottom grass", "burkunets", "women's sweet clover", "wild hop", "chord", "sweet clover" , "cold".

The flowers are small, yellow in color, collected in brushes. The flowering period falls on the whole summer (from June to September). The seed can be collected in August. The leaves are green, more saturated above, and pale below. Petiolate, trifoliate, that's why it got the name of the trefoil among the people.

The fruit is an egg-shaped bean with one or two seeds inside. From above, it is blunt, located on a short peduncle. Seeds are smooth, green-yellow in color, oval.

You can meet a flower on garden plots, near the house. Grows in the area Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Asia. Denets is considered a valuable and culinary plant. The plant forms thickets mixed type, cultivated in farm and garden plots.

Cultivation of sweet clover

It mainly grows along the road, in a ravine, a weedy place, on the edge, in a meadow. The culture is photophilous, undemanding, winter-hardy. Like all other plants, it is better to sow sweet clover in early spring (March-April). You can propagate using seeds. After planting, the plant sprouts in 14-30 days. When two leaves appear, the culture is loosened, watered, thinned out at a distance of 30 cm from each other. In the first year of life, the flower only blooms, but does not bear fruit.

Chill is harvested during the flowering period, but only the inflorescence and leaves. Shamrock is used as a seasoning for cooking meat, fish dishes, soups, salads, pickling vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes). Due to its pleasant aroma, the herb is widely used in cooking.

It has a hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, diaphoretic, soothing, wound-healing effect. A preparation based on sweet clover helps with bronchitis, cough, atherosclerosis, as well as constipation, migraine, arthritis, flatulence, hysteria.

Composition of sweet clover

Preparation of the drug

Drying is under cover, for example, in the attic, where a constant flow of air enters. Lay out the collected drug thin layer on paper or fabric. Herbalists also dry in a dryer with a temperature of no more than 40 degrees. The raw material has a strong aroma similar to fresh hay, bitter in taste.

After drying, the raw materials are threshed, large, long stems are thrown out. The blank should not be stored for more than two years. The drug consists of shoots, leaves and flowers.

Pharmacological properties of sweet clover

Sweet clover has been known since ancient times. About him healing properties the ancient doctors Galen and Dioscrides, well-known at that time, wrote.

The medicine of sweet clover is used to treat flatulence, cough, furuncle, inflammation of the female genital organs, abscess, goiter, VVD (neuropirkulatory). Poland, France, Germany, China are famous wide application burkuna in medicine.

The use of sweet clover

1. Alcohol tincture from sweet clover: dried raw materials are poured alcoholic drink(alcohol, vodka). It is infused for 14 days, and only after that you can drink 15 drops before meals, washed down with another drink. Tincture helps with infertility, migraines, failures hormonal background. Keep the prepared infusion in the refrigerator.
2. herbal decoction: finely chopped grass is poured with a glass of boiling water, boiled for 30 minutes, drained, insisted and only after that they drink one tablespoon before meals. Helps with insomnia, bronchitis, liver dysfunction.
3. Ointment from Burkun: not a large number of raw materials are ground into powder, then vaseline is added and mixed thoroughly. An ointment is used for the rapid healing of a boil, purulent wounds. You can prepare the ointment in a different way. For example, instead of Vaseline, use butter, which is combined with grass. This ointment also relieves inflammation, pain in the affected area.
4. Burkun is a honey plant from which honey. It helps with rheumatism, dropsy, hypertension, migraine, insomnia. The plant produces a lot of honey and pollen. sweet clover honey useful, tasty, rich in useful material. It is transparent, sweet, with a very pleasant aroma.
5. : fresh drug is poured with vodka, insisted for two weeks. Use ready-made infusion of 20 drops before meals twice a day.
6. Leaves and flowers very popular in cooking, used as a flavoring for meat and fish dishes, sauces, garnishes, snacks, drinks. Burkun is also used to make cheese, canned food, soft drinks.
7. Widely used in tobacco, dairy, fish and meat industries. To prepare the salad you will need young fresh leaves, cut a cucumber, a boiled egg to them, mix everything and salt. Season with mayonnaise or olive oil.
8. Sweet clover drink: put a vessel of water on the fire and bring to a boil, immediately add the sweet clover inflorescence, cherry, cranberry or strawberry juice (to your taste). Cool down and enjoy delicious drink to quench your thirst.
9. Burkun used to repel moths, acquisitions clean linen and so that the folded clothes in the closet do not have bad smell. In addition, it is used in the process of making soap, tobacco.
10. Sown sweet clover grass enriches the soil with nitrogen, acts as a fertilizer. Grass is fed to domestic animals (cows, horses), because it is no worse than alfalfa.
11. cold infusion: raw materials are soaked in cold water, infused for 4 hours, filtered. Drink half a glass before a meal. With dandruff, it is advised to wash your head with a decoction. But for people suffering skin diseases you need to take a bath with the addition of herbs to it.

• pain in the bladder;
• respiratory system disease;
• hypertension;
• bronchitis, cough, atherosclerosis;
• cystitis, menopause;
• constipation, flatulence;
• dystonia, gout, goiter;
• painful menstruation;
• inflammation of the female genital organs;
• respiratory diseases.

• hemorrhoids;
• mast;
• stretching;
• injury;
• abscess and abscess;
• ulcer;
• malignant tumor;
• rheumatism;
• boil.

Sweet clover contraindications

• with kidney disease;
• low blood clotting;
• pregnancy;
• internal bleeding;
• diathesis.

sweet clover - strong product, which contains a large number of active enzymes. So he has like positive side application, and negative. It is important to follow the rules for taking the drug, follow the instructions. Be sure to visit the doctor before starting treatment, as well as in cases where symptoms of side effects have appeared.

• increased heart rate, accelerated heartbeat;
• abdominal pain, diarrhea;
• increase in pressure;
• depressed state;
• skin hemorrhage;
• itching, burning;
• intoxication;
• poisoning;
• rash;
• apathy;
• drowsiness.

Sweet clover recipes

1. Infusion: crushed grass is poured cold water, costs 4 hours and is filtered. You need to drink a third cup a day 25 minutes before meals. Maybe a decoction can be used in the form of a lotion, compress, bath.
2. Decoction: put raw materials in a glass of water (hot), cook over low heat for about half an hour, then drain. Use a tablespoon in the presence of acute respiratory disease as well as sleep disorders.
3. Alcohol tincture: buy a bottle of vodka and fill it with a dry potion. Leave in a dark place for two weeks, shaking occasionally. You need to take from 5 to 15 drops. For pain in the joint, it is best to apply a lotion from the medicine. The procedure must be done throughout the week.
4. Oil extract is done on the basis sunflower oil. To do this, the herb is mixed with oil and kept for about 25 minutes in a water bath. Then the mixture is filtered and taken depending on the need.
5. To increase lactation it is desirable to pour the collected raw materials with boiling water and leave for 4 hours. Drink the remedy for three approaches before eating.
6. How carminative prepare an infusion of cold and chamomile. The extract is consumed in 2 tbsp. l. for a day. It helps relieve inflammation of the ovaries ( female organ). But the course of treatment is long, it lasts from 2 to 4 weeks. At this time, you should refrain from sexual (sexual) contact with a partner.

Melilot officinalis (guryan, burkun)

Melilotus officinalis

From the steppe of the Don
On a horseshoe
Walked fragrant herb —
Golden head.

is a biennial herbaceous plant of the legume family (Fabaceae). It grows in fields, meadows, along roads, along the slopes of ravines. FROM therapeutic purpose grass is used - the tops of the shoots with leaves and flowers. Collect grass during flowering.

If you want to have a wonderful smell of a flowering meadow or fresh hay at home, take a few sprigs of sweet clover in your bouquet. It meets us along roads, ditches, on fallow fields, in ravines, where it blooms all summer from June to October with graceful thin tassels of yellow and whitish flowers. In addition to the tundra and alpine meadows, it is found everywhere. Its trifoliate leaves rise and fold by night. They look like flowers of peas and beans, only small.

Sweet clover smells very nice, especially when it dries. Its flowers are mixed with top grades pipe tobacco. Anglers use sweet clover as a fragrant bait for fish. Sweet clover flowers are put into fermented milk when making cheeses.

Raw material contains coumarin, dicoumarin, cymarin, melyl and coumaric acids, essential oil, etc. Infusion and decoction of sweet clover has an expectorant, emollient, carminative, analgesic effect.

Due to the presence of coumarin, sweet clover depresses the central nervous system and has an anticonvulsant effect.

In scientific medicine, sweet clover grass used for the preparation of an exhaust green plaster and introduced into the composition of emollient fees, accelerating the opening of abscesses and boils. Dicoumarin isolated from sweet clover is used as an anticoagulant for thrombophlebitis.

In folk medicine, herbal infusion used for chronic bronchitis, insomnia, migraine, ailments caused by high pressure blood and menopause, with liver diseases.

A mixture of sweet clover grass with coltsfoot flowers in the form of a decoction helps with ovarian inflammation, cancer, psychosis, and metabolic disorders.

Outwardly, an infusion of herbs, as well as an ointment, is used for abscesses, abscesses, inflammation of the mammary glands, rheumatic tumors of the joints.

To prepare the infusion, take 2 teaspoons of herbs, pour two cups of boiling water, insist in a sealed container, take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day.

To prepare the ointment, take 2 tablespoons of fresh sweet clover flowers, rub with 2-3 tablespoons of fresh butter (Surina, 1974).

In Karelia sweet clover is used for atherosclerosis, leucorrhea, fever, myositis, intestinal colic, dysmenorrhea, gout, as a diuretic (with ascites) and lactogenic agent (Yudina, 1988). It has been scientifically established that sweet clover preparations are active against Staphylococcus aureus, coli. Alcohol extracts in the experiment exhibit antifibrinolytic activity.

Animal experiments have shown that oral administration aqueous extract sweet clover grass accelerates liver regeneration. Identified and stimulating properties. With inflammation of the eyes, lotions are made with an admixture of honey, with a headache, compresses are made.

Fresh plant and dry powder treat festering wounds, swelling of the joints, itching in the perineum - sitz baths.

In Belarus, sweet clover is used for painful periods, with diseased ovaries and as a means of preventing blood clotting (Ges, 1976).

experimental and clinical research it was found that sweet clover has a narcotic effect. In patients with leukopenia due to radiation therapy, coumarin causes an increase in leukocytes, mainly due to granulocytes. In large doses, sweet clover causes nausea, vomiting, headache, and has a paralyzing effect on smooth muscles.

In Bulgaria, sweet clover is used orally for chronic catarrh of the bronchi, for pain in bladder, kidneys, with hypertension. Infusion of sweet clover is instilled into the ear with inflammation of the middle ear and with flow from the ears.

In ancient herbalists, instructions are given for the use of sweet clover for abdominal pain, to increase milk in nursing mothers ("Plant Resources", 1987).

Even 1000 years ago, Avicenna widely used sweet clover in the form of ointments for tumors of the eyes, testicles, and uterus. He believed that a decoction of the stems and leaves of sweet clover with wine drives menstruation and the fetus.

Sweet clover tea is useful with thrombophlebitis and as a lactic acid for nursing mothers, with colds and salt deposits. Since ancient times, sweet clover has been used for bottom disease, as gout was called.

In scientific medicine use grass to make exhaust green plaster, accelerating the opening of boils.

Powder from leaves and inflorescences can be used for flavoring compotes, dressing soups, salads and second courses.

For salad take one medium cucumber, cut, add green onion and 50 g of sweet clover leaves. On top, you can put slices of boiled eggs, season with sour cream or mayonnaise.

Okroshka: boiled meat, potatoes, cucumber and egg finely chopped. Grind the crushed fresh leaves of sweet clover and onion with salt and mustard. Mix everything together, pour kvass. Top with sour cream before serving.

For tea take half a glass of dry leaves and inflorescences of sweet clover and the same amount of crushed dry inflorescences with fireweed leaves, pour in a liter cold water, bring to a boil. Pour into cups, adding sugar to taste. You can add 1 tablespoon of green tea to this tea.

Powder: grind the dried leaves and inflorescences of sweet clover in a coffee mill, sift. Use for flavoring compotes, dressing soups, salads and other meat dishes. Recommended for thrombophlebitis.