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Red Clover Tea

Red Clover Tea is an old herbal tea that has been around for 100's or thousands of years.

Red Clover is one of the oldest crops cultivated today. The pretty pink flowers contain amazing properties for treating a variety of conditions. Most people try to irradicated red clover from their gardens and yards, if they knew the benefits of this herb, they would be happy to see the red clover blossoms appear every year.

Traditionally, red clover is known as a Womens Herb. The blossom contains a high concentration of phytoestrogens. These phytoestregens act as replacement to female hormones lost during menopause and can ease the entire menopause process.
It is widely used as a herbal hormone replacement during menopause. It has shown great success in eliminating and aiding with the following menopause symptoms:

Hot Flashes
Vaginal Lubrication During Menopause
Night Sweats

Red Clover & Cancer Treatment

The National Cancer Institute recently did a study on the anti tumor properties related to red clover blossoma nd the study revealed that Red Clover has four compounds that are deemed "anti tumor".!

Red Clover Benefits

Red Clover is also known as a blood purifier, is used to calm your nerves, is caffeine free, and can sooth an upset stomach. It is a very beneficial herb that many of us take for granted.

Organic Red Clover

Red Clover Blossoms are easy to harvest in the wild in many areas of North Amercica. The big pink blossoms should be harvested fully open and dried to use in Red Clover Herbal Teas and other recipes.

Red Clover Tea Recipe

Once you have a supply of dried red clover blossom, making a herbal tea is really easy. Here is the recipe:

1 cup dried red clover blossoms

2 tablespoons mint (spearmint or peppermint)

4 cups water

honey, to sweeten (or use sugar)

This will make 4 cups of Red Clover Herbal Tea.

Simply boil the water, add the red clover blossoms and mint and steep for 10 minutes. Sweeten to taste with honey.

Buy Red Clover Blossom

Red Clover Blossom Whole (Trifolium pratense) 1 lb

Used as an infusion, decoction, extract, tincture, salve and as a tea. Delicious Red Clover Tea: Red Clover Blossoms Lemon Honey Fresh mint leaves -and/or- Several dandelion leaves Put the fresh or dried blossoms and leaves, with or without the mint and dandelion, into a 2-cup earthenware teapot. Fill teapot with boiling water, cover, and infuse for 5 to 10 minutes over very low heat. Strain into a hot cup, add a twist of lemon and sweeten with honey. Red Clover salve is useful for children with skin problems, such as eczema or psoriasis. Also useful for adults. Red Clover Tea is also a reliable expectorant and anti-spasmodic, thus useful for bronchitis and whooping cough. Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'The fluid extract of Trifolium is used as an alterative and antispasmodic. An Red Clover Tea made by 1 oz. to 1 pint of boiling water may with advantage be used in cases of bronchial and whooping-cough. Fomentations and poultices of the herb have been used as localapplications to cancerous growths.' 'Dosages: 1 drachm of fluid extract, 1 to 2 drachms of infusion.' It possesses a peculiar soothing property, proves an efficient detergent, and promotes a healthful granulation.' 'The infusion may be used freely; a strong tincture may be prepared from the recently dried flowers (viii) in 50 per cent alcohol (Oj) The dose of this will range from 1 to 60 drops; specific trifolium, 1 to 60 drops.' American Materia Medica, 1919 (Ellingwood): 'The agent is also prescribed in irritable conditions of the larynx and air passages, especially if evidenced by spasmodic cough. It has served a good purpose in whooping cough, in the cough of measles, and in general bronchial or pulmonary irritation. A dry, irritable cough will respond most readily to its influence.' This is an excellent Source for the blossoms to make Red Clover Tea. Buy for $16.11

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