Donnik yellow - healing herb and excellent honey-bearing

Donnik yellow has an amazing smell of coumarin. This biennial plant belongs to the family of legumes. Sometimes plants exceed 2 m in height. Stem is branchy, slightly pubescent, straight. Flowers - small, yellow, butterfly, located on short pedicels. They are collected in axillary brushes. On each such brush there are up to 70 drooping flowers. Blossoms sweet yellow from the beginning of summer to September, and the seeds ripen until late autumn. The plant multiplies seeds. It is found almost everywhere. It grows along the fringes, along roads, in ravines, in bushes, in dry meadows. Prefers fresh and dry soil.

The generic name of this plant goes back to the Greek name, meaning "honey clover". It always attracts a huge number of honey bees. The sugar content in the sweet clover of yellow exceeds the same value of white clover in 1,5-2 times. Some beekeepers in order to obtain honeycomb honey in large quantities, produce a milling of the plant during the period of mass flowering, thus prolonging its duration.

Medicinal raw materials are the entire herbaceous part of the plant. It is collected during the period of mass flowering, cutting off lateral shoots and tops. When harvesting raw materials, do not cut off coarse and thick stems. You can not collect it along the roads. Raw materials need to be harvested after dew in dry weather. Collected wet, it gets warm and darkens. The collected grass is immediately sent for drying.

Grass clover, the information about which is quite complete, unfortunately, is rarely in demand among consumers, since very few people know about its useful properties. The biological activity of this plant is justified by the presence of coumarin. This substance is able to increase systolic blood pressure, can increase heart volume and the number of leukocytes, improve peripheral and blood supply, as well as blood circulation in the abdominal cavity.

Donnik yellow in folk medicine was used in flatulence as a haemostatic and emollient. There is information about the use of this plant for the treatment of epidemic encephalitis. This herb is used as a laxative. It is included in various emollient fees. Decoctions and infusions from the medicinal drunkard are used for flatulence, respiratory diseases, atherosclerosis, hypertension. It is often used as an expectorant, diuretic, antibacterial, antispasmodic, sedative, hypotensive, analgesic.

An excellent result is provided by the use of clover as an external agent for furunculosis, abscesses, mastitis, malignant tumors, rheumatism of the joints. For outdoor use use decoctions and infusions from this herb. Usually they are made with compresses, baths, washings, lotions, poultices, plasters.

Although clover officinalis is an excellent medicinal plant, it has many contraindications. It can not be given to pregnant women, with poor blood coagulability or bleeding. Like any medicine, sweet yellow requires a careful dosage.

When taking this herb, there may be side effects. The intake of the drug in large quantities depresses the nervous system, adversely affects smooth muscle. Prolonged use of clover and its overdose cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, liver damage, drowsiness, hemorrhages, paralysis of the nervous system.

Therapeutic use of the medicinal drunkard can be carried out only after consultation with the doctor and under his direct supervision.