Red clover - a blood purifyer

Red Clover has been cultivated primarily to provide a grazing food for animals, but was used by healers to treat respiratory problems and was used as a blood purifier expelling toxins from the bloodstream. It is also known as Meadow Trefoil, Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Sweet Clover, Wild Clover, Cow Clover, and Purple Clover and grows in Europe and North America.

Red Clover contains phenolic glycosides (salicylic acid), essential oil (methyl salicylate), sitosterol, genistiene, flavonoids, salicylates, coumarins, cyanogenic glycosides, silica, choline, and lecithin and has vitamin A, vitamin C, B-complex, calcium, chromium, iron, and magnesium.

Red Clover is one of the most useful remedies for children with skin problems. It is used for cancer, mastitis (inflammation of the breast), joint disorders, jaundice, bronchitis, spasmodic coughing, asthma, and skin inflammations, such as psoriasis and eczema and is used to relieve symptoms of menopause and premenstrual syndrome (PMS). It reduces cholesterol and support the liver in its critical role of detoxifying the blood and converting excess estradiol into the more benign form of estriol, it is a powerful antioxidant, it prevents the formation of new blood vessels that feed abnormal cells and inhibit abnormal cell growth.