That fever clover (Menyanthes trifoliata) from the family of the fever clover plants.

Further designations are: also bitter clover, sump clover, beaver herb, Gallkraut, three-sheet, stomach clover, goat rag or butter clover.

Characteristics

This kind is a persistent, halfsubmerged or terrestrial growing marsh plant with creeping root stick. The sheets of these plants are partitioned in three full-green partial lamellas (clover similarity), which sit at dark stacks. From pink Knopsen develop small, white, frayed blooms, which sit in upright grapes/clusters.

The plant marks itself by adjustment to the sump location. The and Blattstiele are hollow (serve the aeration), which reach Gerbstoffgehalt up to 7% (rot inhibition).

Occurrence

Bitter clover grows in Europe, North America and central Asia in damp environment such as banks, edges of pond and ditches, on damp meadows and peat bogs.

Bitter clover stands under nature protection and may not not be picked without special permission.

Contents materials

Fever clover contains Bitterglykoside such as Menyanthin and Gentianin, resins, Gerbstoffe, Saponine, oils and Cholesterin.

Use in the kitchen

In Sweden one uses today still fever clover occasionally as hop replacement when beer brewing. Fever clover is used occasionally also for preparing of bitter

The Rhizome was mixed in Lappland husbands and into the bread paste.

Use in the Pflanzenheilkunde

That fever clover was not well-known in the antique one as cures. However the medieval support mentions the fever clover 1565 in its "„Kreutterbuch "“.

Fever clover is used by the content of several bitter materials for a long time as medicinal plant, those tasting strongly continuously bitter drug consists of the dried and cut up blooms. Digest-promoting, appetite-energizing, when Galle and liver suffering. In former times that became fever clover - as one can conclude from the name - against fever uses, but a fever-lowering effect is scientifically not provable.

Related links

• To the Giftigkeit of the fever clover

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