Healing Red Clover* The Summer Wild Herb (Prairie Nurse)

Red Clover, Red Clover! I went for a walk and came across this wild red clover in the meadow today and just had to take a picture of it, gorgeous! This beauty according to many articles and history is a great wild flower to have around. It is now June in the Midwest of the United States and is full bloom. It is an unusual colder and very stormy & wet June for my area, so it may come in bloom earlier in June. 

Some background of this to the Red Clover it belongs to the family of plants legumes. It has properties called isoflavones, which according to the article below is like estrogen. Asthma, Whooping cough, cancer, and gout high cholesterol levels. 

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1. Red Clover is promoted to be used for health benefits for treating menopause symptoms & osteoporosis/bone health due to the properties of isoflavones increases estrogen. 

2. The plant research is showing the menopause women taking the herb also are seeing great results with a reducing in their cholesterol. A substantial increase with the HDL (good cholesterol) and decreasing labs of their LDL (bad cholesterol). 

3. The research promising conclusion with cholesterol reduction, thus would benefit heart protection and reduce strokes. However, this is still under research. 

4.  Due to formononetin plant chemical of isoflavone it may help with prostate cancer. This is just preliminary animal research at this point. 

5. In times that have past, our history concludes it was used by people to treat many other aliments such as asthma, whooping cough, gout. (The researchers are unsure if it works for these health issues, though still doing more studies). 

6. Red clover is also being used for topically health problems such as psoriasis, eczema and rashes. Due to possibly anti-inflammatory properties. However, there’s not enough scientific evidence for this, and use of red clover also carries a risk of skin irritations or allergic reactions. 

Doses: Studies show if your using it for menopause the supplements are typically 40mg to 80mg daily with food. However, there doesn’t seem to be a specific medical guideline to follow, so make sure you check with your health provider’s recommendation or label recommendations.

Warnings: See below disclaimer & *Women Pregnant and or breastfeeding, children are not recommended, to use this plant/supplement per articles.* Caution noted if taking blood thinners, hormones, people over 65 years old and methotrexate. The 3 year study says it appears to be safe up to this point of their research.

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