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Red Clover, *Trifolium
praetense*, is a member of the legume family and is
native to central Asia!! But now has been naturalized
throughout the world. It was Samuel Thomson who
introduced its use into Western Herbalism was an
external paste for skin cancers. Red Clover is
considered a nutritive tonic, soothing to dry irritated
tissue. Red Clover also has an affinity for the glands
of the body, so it is a remedy for swollen parotids.
salivary gland congestion, puffed up problems with
glands. It helps to thin the blood and widely used as a
blood purifier.
Part used: the flowerhead
Treats: Atrophied tissues states (*Matt
Wood*)
Energetics: sweet and moist, cool
Meridians: Kidney,Bl, Lung, LI
Indications and Actions: (*Peter
Holmes)*
1)Promotes detoxification, Clears, damp heat, reduces
tumors; treats Skin Damp Heat
2) Clears Damp Heat and Toxins and reduces inflammation
and swelling-clears Fire toxins and clears Bladder damp
heat
3) Circulates Lung Qi; opens the chest and relieves
wheezing and coughing; treat Lung Qi constraint and
bladder qi constraint- asthma, coughing and neurogenic
bladder
4) enriches the yin, moistens dryness and generates
fluids; treats yin deficiency, and intestinal dryness
5) topical for tissue repair and reduces inflammation
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| WOOD |
| Red Clover is associated with
conditions where the body walls off the offending
matter, making a hard glandular cyst of node. Red
Clover will even help encyst cancerous tissue, but it
will seldom cure cancer. Specific Indications: Salivary
glands, calcification in the glands, hard swollen
encysted glands; mastitis, encysted glands of the breast
from mastitis, dry skin, insufficient secretion; cold
sores and sore lips (root infusion) |
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| FELTER |
| *Felter* said-" Specific
Indications- irritability of the respiratory passages,
with dry, explosive cough; carcinomatous cachexia;
Action- Trifolium is alterative and antispasmodic. It
relieves irritability of the respiratory tract,
alleviating dry, irritable and spasmodic cough. Whooping
cough is especially moderated by it, and it is
frequently effective in lessening the distressing cough
of measles. It also modifies cough in bronchitis and
laryngitis. Its alterative powers are underrated, and
it should be given where a general deobstruent effect is
desired in chronic skin diseases and unquestionable has
a retarding effect upon malignant neoplasms. Though by
no means curative in carcinoma, patients who have been
operated upon for cancer are slower in redeveloping the
growths when given tincture of trifolium daily. |
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| COOK |
| *Cook* adds to the discussion;
" This herb is somewhat antispasmodic and enjoys a good
family reputation for whooping-cough. An extract is
really stimulating article; and is valuable as an
application to indolent ulcers and cancers. It is not
at all escharotic, it secures a good discharge,arouses
a firm capillary circulation and procures a granulating
surface to indolent and phagedemic sores. |
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| ELLINGWOOD |
| *Ellingwood*-also mentions the
alterative properties that are useful in cancer. The
agent is also prescribed in irritable conditions of the
larynx and air passages especially evidenced by a
spasmodic cough. A dry, irritable cough will respond
most readily to its influence. Dr. Lambert is of the
opinion that trifolium has a direct action in improving
the nutrition of the brain (Yippee). He thinks it is
demanded when the patient in overworked; when there is
general mental failure, with loss of memory of words, or
when there is confusion of ideas of functional causes;
also when there is weakness of the lower extremities, or
of the feet from deficient capillary circulation. |
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