Yellow melilot (Melilotus officinalis) has been used for centuries for problems with the circulatory system (it increases clotting and seals blood vessels). Melilot accelerates wound healing, and it has calming properties - but these are not its only properties. How to use yellow melilot?

Yellow Clover( Melilotus officinalis ) grows almost everywhere: mainly in large meadows, forest roadsides or balks, thickets, wastelands , very often near railway tracks as well as in rubble and poor soil.

The yellow clove ( Melilotus officinalis ) belongs to a larger family of 22 genera in total. All melilot plants are plants from the Fabaceae family ( Fabaceae ), i.e. the same plant to which clover, soybean, licorice and lentils belong. They mainly grow in Europe, Africa and Asia, and the greatest diversity is found in the Mediterranean. In Poland, however, only four species of melilot are found:

  • white melilot,
  • yellow melilot (also known as medical),
  • tallow,
  • serrated melilot.

Contents:

  1. What does the yellow melilot herb contain?
  2. Yellow clove - healing properties
  3. Melilotus - side effects
  4. Melilotus - contraindications
  5. Yellow clover - application

What does the yellow melilot herb contain?

Melilot herb contains:

  • tannins,
  • flavonoids,
  • coumarin compounds,
  • melillotine,
  • allantoin.

Yellow clove - healing properties

Yellow clove has many valuable healing properties. The best-documented and best-known advantages of the melilot in folk medicine include:

  • calming and calming properties
  • ability to reduce blood clotting
  • strengthening and sealing of venous and lymphatic vessels, as well as the ability to reduce the permeability of capillaries
  • ability to relax blood vessels, which indirectly supports blood circulation
  • ability to soften the skin and accelerate wound healing
  • anti-inflammatory properties,thanks to which yellow melilot is worth using in the case of varicose veins, lymphangitis and hemorrhoids (also prophylactically).

Yellow clove is usually used alone, but in many cases it is worth combining it with other medicinal herbs, creating mixtures that can be helpful in faster healing of severe wounds, skin abscesses, dermatitis, and swelling. In the past, throat diseases and conjunctivitis were also treated with the help of yellow melilot, while bathing in water enriched with yellow melilot infusion helped heal skin diseases, including infections, also helped in the case of acne.

Yellow sweet clover also improves digestion, and has analgesic properties - for these reasons, it can support therapy in states of nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, and even in hepatic colic and renal colic.

Melilotus - side effects

Like many other herbs, yellow melilot can have unwanted side effects (they happen when a single dose is too consuming or the herb is taken for a long period of time). The most common side effects are nausea, vomiting, headache, decreased libido, and in extreme cases liver damage, difficult-to-control bleeding, mild narcotic conditions and smooth muscle paralysis may occur.

Melilotus - contraindications

The yellow melilot can not be consumed by children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as people who are hypersensitive or allergic to the yellow melilot.

Caution should also be used in the case of renal and hepatic insufficiency. Taking the yellow melilot is also excluded in people prone to bleeding disorders and taking anticoagulants.

Since yellow melilot can interact with medicinal substances, it is important - when taking medications, including over-the-counter ones, as well as herbal preparations - to make sure that you can use the yellow melilot preparations during this time.

Yellow clover - application

How can you make preparations based on melilot yourself?

  • Melilot against varicose veins

Mix 20 g melilot and crushed bark, 40 g angelica root and 10 g gentian root. Pour the prepared mixture into a bag. Prepare the preparation for drinking immediately before consumption: put a tablespoon of the mixture into a saucepan, pour a glass of warm water, heat to a boil and cook, covered, for three minutes.

ThenPut the saucepan aside for 10 minutes, and then strain the mixture in front of a strainer. Half a glass of such a mixture should be drunk for three weeks twice a day before eating.

  • Melilot bath rejuvenating and regenerating the skin

It also helps with phlebitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, venous clots and edema. Mix 50 g of sweet clover herb and 75 g of leaf herb and plantain leaves. Put everything into a large pot, pour 5 liters of warm water, heat to a boil and cook, covered, for 25 minutes. After this time, set aside for 15 minutes, and then strain it through a strainer directly into the bathtub. It is worth keeping an eye on the bath time: a bath in the melilot should not last longer than a quarter of an hour.

  • Melilot macerate

Pour a glass of freshly ground melilot with a glass of boiled water at room temperature, set aside for 8 hours, and then strain. Melilot macerate can be drunk three times a day (no more than 100 ml at a time) - the remaining portion should be kept in the refrigerator.

  • Melilot infusion

Two tablespoons of melilot pour two glasses of boiling water and leave for 20 minutes - when it cools down, strain it through a strainer. Melilot infusion can be drunk 4 times a day for 100 ml or 3 times a day for 150 ml.

  • Melilot tincture

Pour 250 ml of 40% alcohol over half a glass of yellow sweet clover herb. and set aside for 14 days. After this time, filter the tincture and pour it into a tightly closed bottle. Melilot tincture can be drunk. To make melilot tincture yourself, pour 250 ml of 40% alcohol over half a glass of herb and digest it for 14 days. After this time, the tincture can be taken 3-4 times a day for half a teaspoon.

  • Yellow sweet clover juice

It can be obtained in a slow-speed juicer or using traditional methods: fresh melilot herb must be blended or ground in a milk machine, then the mass should be poured halfway with boiled water at room temperature and left covered for six hours. It is worth keeping an eye on the proportion, e.g. for two glasses of ground mass, give a glass of water.

After six hours, remove the vegetable mass, filter the extract through a strainer, grind the mass in a juicer and combine with the liquid. Honey and 40% alcohol can be added to the resulting juice. (keeping an eye on the proportion, i.e. for every 100 ml of juice you have to give 100 ml of honey and 100 ml of alcohol). The juice prepared in this way can be drunk 4 times a day for 2 tablespoons.

Worth knowing
  • yellow clove is a honey plant
  • young yellow melilot herbcan be used as animal feed - later, however, it becomes poisonous to them due to the increase in the concentration of toxic substances
  • people can eat melilot seeds in limited amounts: in larger amounts it is poisonous
  • you can make soups and tea from the leaves of melilot

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