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What is it?

The small but strikingly pretty flowers which are the parts (along with some of the green herb) that are typically used in herbal medicine from Red Clover, a plant that grows freely around the world wherever there are green and grassy spaces.

How has it been used?

It seems that in current times Red Clover has been somewhat pigeonholed as a herb that may help hormonal imbalances such as in the menopause. This has come about because Red Clover is high in substances called ‘isoflavones’ which are thought to mimic the effect of oestrogens. Numerous products that have concentrated these substances from Red Clover have now come onto the market and been promoted for a wide variety of uses and preventions. There is some evidence to support these uses but what I have read in the literature so far has been encouraging rather than compelling.

In any case there is a great deal more to Red Clover than just its potential effect on oestrogen imbalance. Red Clover was highly regarded in the ancient world as a cleansing medicinal herb, especially when chronic disease had set into the lungs or the skin. The treatment of cancer with Red Clover has probably always been controversial but it has a great many advocates and has been with us for a long time.

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Personal experiences

Red Clover is a gentle herb but at the same time it is remarkably penetrating. Red Clover brings a healing influence into some very hard to reach places; health problems that have become really stuck such as chronic lung or skin disease.

You can't really say that Red Clover is a liver, or kidney, or bowel herb, no-one really knows how it works but it clearly does something to help clean the blood and for many people that kind of action is exactly what they need to get well.

Red Clover needs to be given in reasonable doses, you don't have to be shy. It works just as well as a tincture or as a tea. Red Clover combines perfectly with Dandelion, Burdock and Yellow Dock to help do deep and lasting cleansing.

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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898

Red clover is an excellent alterative, and one of the few remedies which favorably influences pertussis. . It is also a remedy in other spasmodic coughs, as those of measles, bronchitis, laryngitis, phthisis, etc. It is an excellent internal agent for those individuals disposed to tibial and other forms of ulcers, and it unquestionably retards the growth of carcinomata, and may be freely administered to those of a cancerous diathesis. The extract, spread on linen or soft leather, has long been said to be an excellent remedy for cancerous ulcers. It is also highly recommended in ill conditioned ulcers of every kind, and deep, ragged-edged, and otherwise badly-conditioned burns. It possesses a peculiar soothing property, proves an efficient detergent, and promotes a healthful granulation. The infusion may be used freely; a strong tincture may be prepared from the recently dried flowers.

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