Clover drug
Burkun drug, yellow, yellow sweet clover, grass mole - is not an exhaustive list of the names of this plant is distributed as a weed. He does not grow only in the Far East. You can meet him at the forest edges and clearings, roadsides, on the steppe grasslands, as a weed in gardens and fields. In our country there are about 11 species of annuals and nearly 20 of biennial herbaceous plants that inhabit the globe.
Its generic name "melilo status" comes from Greek and means "clover honey," because the flowers of this plant attract bees and a good honey plant.
trifoliate leaves resemble clover leaves, flowers small, yellow, collected in the long axillary brush. The raw material collected grass clover during flowering. Cut off the tops and side shoots up to 30 centimeters, without a thick and coarse stalks loosely laid out and immediately start to dry. Very handy to dry, hanging grass bunches. Not recommended overdry raw materials as leaves crumble, drying temperature should not exceed 40 degrees C. Freshly picked grass is almost odorless, dried produces an odor.
Fragrant smell of raw materials give coumarins, which are contained in the leaves and flowers of plants, together with other biologically active substances. Clover drug used in folk and scientific medicine as a sedative for insomnia and upper respiratory tract infection. External use as a tincture for bathing, baths and compresses at pustular skin diseases, as early healing.
Beauticians recommend using externally in the form of compresses, bathing, baths in skin diseases.
Fresh plant almost no smell, but it makes a lot of dried sweet flavor. Therefore, it is added to perfume and tobacco products. From the dried flowers get essential oils used in perfumery. Due to the strong aroma of sweet clover is used for perfumes in soap manufacture.
Bulgaria infusion of herbs is used as an emollient, boleuspokaivayuschee, wound-healing agent in the form of plasters, poultices. In France, used as an astringent for skin diseases. In Austria the grass clover called "clover honey, it is used for external purposes in the form of poultices. In Indian medicine - as an aromatic, emollient, haemostatic.
Propagate the plant seeds that sow in a few dates in early spring, under winter and summer. Seeds before planting stratify. It must be noted that the seeds ripen only in its second year, the first is simply not enough time.