Trifolium, Red Clover

Picture Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

Picture T. pratense
Flora von Deutschland (23), Kohler, 1885

Picture Florigraphia Britannica, Deakin, 1857

Picture Red Clover Flower (Adam, 2017)

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Botanical name:


Trifolium pratense, T. medium; T. repens is the White

Parts used:


Flowers

Temperature & Taste:


Cool, dry. Slightly Sweet and Bitter

Classification:


B. Clear Heat, Cools the Blood

Uses:


1. Clears Blood Heat, Nourish the Yin:
-heat conditions where the fluids have been damaged

2. Clears Heat, Benefits the Blood, Regulates Menstruation:
-promotes Menstruation, ease cramps

3. Clears Heat, Moves the Blood, Resolves Swellings:
-Swellings, Scrofula, Tumors

4. Clears Wind-Heat, Resists Poison (West, TCM):

5. Clears Phlegm and Heat, Stops Cough (West, TCM):
-spasmodic Coughs

6. Externally:
-The whole herb is made into a poultice and applied to inflammations, sores, ulcers etc.

Dose:


Infusion or Short Decoction: 5-15 grams
Tincture (1:5): 2-4, or 6 mls;
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Main Combinations:


1. Cancer:
i. Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
ii. Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
2. Eczema, Psoriasis:
i. Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
ii. Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
iii. Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
3. Syphilis, Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
4. To promote and increase quality of Breast Milk, Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
5. Female Infertility, Red Clover with  … available in PRO version
6. Wash for Sores and Ulcers, Red Clover with  … available in PRO version

Cautions:


Generally Safe.
Any Cancer which may be aggravated by Estrogen therapy are best not be treated with Red Clover. These include some breast and uterine cancers.

Drug Interactions:


1. May enhance estrogen
2. Red Clover may increase effectiveness of Warfarin (this does not mean that they cannot be used together, but the patient should be monitored in case Warfarin dosage can be reduced).

Main Preparations used:


Cancer Plaster
Treatment of Cancer:
  ‘Out of 15 cases of Cancer that my brother Physicians have abandoned as incurable, I have cured with this Wonderful remedy, Red Clover tops’ (Golden Remedies: Knowledge is Power, 19th Century).

Treatment of Breast Cancer.
  ‘The New York Tribune of September, 1884, related a case of indisputable cancer of the breast of six years standing, with an open fetid sore, which had penetrated the chest-wall between the ribs, and which was radically healed by a prolonged internal use of the extract of red clover. Four years afterwards, in September, 1888, “the breast was found to be restored to its normal condition, all but a small place the size of half a dollar, which will in every probability become absorbed like the rest, so that the patient is considered by her physicians to be absolutely cured.” (Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, W. T. Fernie, M.D., 1897)