Sweet clover is a characteristic honey source plant that blooms in summer. This plant secretes a lot of honey, which is an important honey source for people to keep bees. It is estimated that many people don't understand the efficacy and function of sweet clover. What are the efficacy, function, usage, dosage and taboos of sweet clover for everyone?
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morphological character
Sweet clover is a biennial or panicum miliaceum. The depth of taproot is less than 2m. The stem is erect and multi-branched, with a height of 50 ~ 120 cm and a maximum height of more than 2 meters; Pinnately trifoliate compound leaves with elliptic or oblanceolate leaflets, length 1 ~ 1.5cm, width 3 ~ 6mm, blunt apex, wedge-shaped base, sparse teeth at the leaf margin and long stipules; Racemes axillary or terminal, slender, small flowers, 3 ~ 4 mm long, calyx bell-shaped, with 5 teeth, corolla butterfly-shaped, yellow, flag petal longer than wing petal. Pods are ovoid or nearly spherical, about 3.5 mm long, nearly black when mature, reticulate, containing 1 seed.
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Efficacy and function of sweet clover
Clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation and drying limbs with concentrated water. Used for spleen disease, colic, diphtheria, moth, etc. Aromatic turbidity, cure malaria. Used for summer dampness, chest distress, halitosis, head swelling, headache, malaria and dysentery.
Usage and dosage of sweet clover
1.5~ 15g .
2. 1.5 ~ 3 yuan.
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The taboo of sweet clover:
Avoid catching a cold
Cold food is cold and difficult to digest. Cold food is also easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of drugs in the gastrointestinal tract. What are the taboo foods for eating traditional Chinese medicine? Therefore, in the treatment of "cold syndrome", taking traditional Chinese medicines such as warming meridians and dredging collaterals, dispelling cold and eliminating dampness, or strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, we must avoid eating cold food.
The choice of sweet clover
Shang Zhi Decoction: Senecio Erhuashanensis175g, Lamiophlomis rotata150g, Pyrrosia150g, Melilotus officinalis100g, Primula150g, Corydalis/kloc-0. Pulverizing the seven herbs into coarse powder, and mixing. A dose of 5g, three times a day. Decoct or apply to the affected area. Used for all old and new wounds.
The above is a detailed explanation of the efficacy and function of sweet clover. As we all know, sweet clover is an excellent medicinal plant and an important honey source for bee breeding. Sweet clover honey has a certain therapeutic effect on human gastropathy, dysentery, gonorrhea and dermatosis. Because the content of amino acids in sweet clover honey is particularly high, it contains a variety of minerals and vitamins, and people can relieve cough and asthma after eating it. If eaten for a long time, the effect on treating bronchitis is very obvious. I hope the above contents are helpful to you.