Sweet clover is suitable for internal and external use. Used internally, it relieves the symptoms associated with chronic diseases of the venous vascular system, such as a feeling of heaviness and pain in the legs, itching, swelling, redness and cramps in the calves at night.
Sweet clover for veins and lymphs
Supportively, sweet clover can also be used to treat acute thrombosis and associated inflammation of the superficial veins (thrombophlebitis), as well as varicose veins and the so-called postthrombotic syndrome. Postthrombotic syndrome describes the consequences of permanent damage to the deep venous system of the arm or leg after a deep vein thrombosis has passed.
Furthermore, the herb is used, also supportively, in the treatment of acute hemorrhoidal attacks and lymphatic congestion. Traditionally, the herb is used for “tired legs”.
External use of rockweed.
Used externally, sweet clover herb is used to treat superficial bruises, bruises and sprains.
Folk medicine application of sweet clover
Sweet clover was used in folk medicine as early as the Middle Ages as a sedative, analgesic, diuretic and diaphoretic, as well as for wound healing. Today, the drug is used in folk medicine as a vein-strengthening and diuretic agent (diuretic).
Sweet clover in homeopathy
In homeopathy, the fresh aerial parts collected at flowering time, without the woody stems, are used for diseases of the central nervous system, coagulation disorders, varicose veins and headaches.
Ingredients of sweet clover
The most important efficacy-determining ingredients in sweet clover include coumarin derivatives, which are present in the form of the glycosides (for example, melilotoside and melilotin), with a share of about 0.3%.
Furthermore, volatile coumarin, flavonoids and saponins of the melilotigenin and soyasaogenol type are present. The anticoagulant substance dicumarol is formed during insufficient drying – it is absent in fresh and carefully dried plants.
Sweet clover: indication
Sweet clover may find medicinal use in the following cases:
- Venous insufficiency, diseases of the venous vascular system.
- Feeling of heaviness
- Calf cramps
- Varicose veins
- Thrombophlebitis, phlebitis
- Post-thrombotic syndrome
- Hemorrhoids
- Lymphatic congestion
- Tired legs
- Bruises
- Bruises
- Sprains
