Red clover in the menopause
Clover is known to everyone as feed for livestock. I hope so. In my youth it was between the grains sown as green manure, as food for the animals. A plant with a function so versatile. Now, with the discovery in the plant of the clover phytoestrogens gets a role in healing. Use as a nutritional supplement in menopausal women.
History and etymology.
The plant was probably in the 16th century in the Low Countries introduced. It quickly became an important agricultural crop. Not surprisingly, one plant in a time without fertilizer, with his Rhizobium bacteria on the roots themselves is a nitrogen factory, farmers could use as well. It was also a protein-rich food for the animals. The most absurd form of signature doctrine, the V-shape on the sheet, feed for livestock do. Many dialectical names refer to others as fertilizer is: flower cow, horse and sheep clover flower.
The word clover, adhesive, clafre, clover indicates possible at the sticky humidity of the plant. The official name Trifolium, three leaves, refers to the three leaves on the stem, and pretense means meadow or field, its natural growth site.
How important was the clover, is further underlined by the clover regulations that were there previously. So had at the time the lease was to end the country are delivered filled with clover. There were also special tools like the riders to the clover hay to the clover dry and rake, a ten-teeth broad wooden rakes to harvest the crop. (more…)
