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Red Clover :: Herb of the Month
April 11, 2010
This months herb of the month is on red clover, a pretty pinkish/purplish flower with narrow petals. It’s one of the many species of the clover family and is considered to be one of the richest sources of isoflavones and it offers many valuable nutrients:
The young fresh leaves and new flowers of red clover are both edible – add them to salads and soups. Also, the sprouted seeds add a robust flavor and crisp texture to salads, sandwiches, and other recipes.
Red Clover Flower Blossoms
These pretty blossoms, either fresh or dried, makes a delicate sweet and medicinal tea. It is alterative, antiscrofulous, antispasmodic, aperient, detergent, diuretic, estrogenic, expectorant, sedative and tonic – used medicinally to treat a wide variety of conditions, many of them having to do with reproductive functions, and menopause. It’s also known to be a good tonic for colds, purify the blood, and studies suggest it’s an anti-cancer agent.
Red Clover Seeds
Red clover is an easily grown no fuss plant from seed. You can even grow it from root cuttings. This plant blooms from April thought out the summer months. Consider growing it in your yard, you can find red clover seed online at Mountain Rose Herbs, or you can enter the drawing for red clover below.
Red Clover Giveaway
Leaving a comment enters you into the drawing. Share any tips, suggestions, ideas, your experience using red clover, or your desire to learn more and try it. At the end of this month, one of your names will be drawn from the comment section of this post, and our sponsor Mountain Rose Herbs will send a gift red clover to the winning participant.
Happy Anniversary!!!
Happy Herb of the Month anniversary Mountain Rose Herbs!
It’s been a year a great fun and learning. Much appreciation and many thanks to everyone at Mountain Rose Herbs for your sponsorship and support, and to Raw Epicurean readers for your interest, participation, and support. We look forward to many more herb of the month posts and giveaway and we hope to inspire you to use herbs and spices in more and more recipes.
xoxo,
Ingrid
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Herb of the Month
Red Clover our featured spice for April. We'll highlight its benefits, showcase it in raw vegan recipes, and at the end of the month a reader's name will be drawn from the comments, and our sponsor
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Hi! It was interesting to read about red clover! Thank you! Iblool forward to experimenting with it and learning more.
I would love to learn more about this!!!
I have never tried Red Clover before but now I would love to try them in salads and even brewing the buds for tea!
I had heard of and seen Red Clover teas but never heard of using it in a salad or soup. I wonder how it tastes?
According to Flower Essences and Vibration Healing, by Gurudas, Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)works with Emotional Excess.
The red clover flower essence “can fuse the emotional and causal bodies together, helping those who are prone to panic and hysteria. It can engender calmness and understanding around a disaster, even assisting those in working with past catastrophes.”
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I like to experiemnt with red clover as teas
I never knew this was edible. It grows wild all over around here.
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This is really interesting. I will have to try Red Clover.
I have used the seeds in the past by sprouting them for salads. Now I look forward to trying the whole herb as well.
Crimson clover is now blooming in North Texas. It’s just gorgeous. Is it also edible?Hope spring is as beautiful where you are :)
Wow, I’ve never heard of red clover before, especially used as a spice. I love to browse markets for exotic spices to try in new recipes, so I’m excited to hunt out some red clover and see what it tastes like.
Thanks for all the great info you provide us with!
My past experience with Red Clover Blossoms was when I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I took it to help purify my blood and build my Immune system. It helped tremendously. I am now going to add it to my daily supplements because of the menopause benefits.
thank you for this Blog I am moving to Van Island to start a Organic farm and I want to grow herbs also. I have so much to learn and the more I learn the more I need to learn very exciting to me
Brings back memories of when I was a tiny tot and picking them with Grandma in the summers when we would be in WI. We’d have that and a basket of fresh berries that were picked wild. She would make it as a wonderful summer dessert…..Hey Dana, where in NTX are they growing?
I had no idea this was an edible herb, with so many healing properties!
Your website is fascinating! I really don’t know much about red clover, and I learned that you can make sprouts and tea that is curative for so many ills. Thanks for the information!
Hi! I currently sprout red clove and like it and have not yet tried it as a tea — sounds like a nice one to try.
I find Red Clover is nourishing for all female functions. It balances and soothes the whole female being. I love it. I had forgotten about it until your feature. I will try growing it too. Great idea. I have always used the dry.
I would absolutely love to learn more about red clover. My friend who is a breast cancer survivor was telling me how great it is and how I should plant it as a cover crop in our garden.
Thanks – I’m a fan on Facebook and have enjoyed the posts!
Ohhhh the many things I could do with Red Clover and provided nutrients for the family! Yum!
I plan on trying to find some red clover to add to my raw diet. Thank you so much for the information!
I didn’t know red clover could be used in food/drink. I use to grow it because it’s easy and pretty and bees like it and I wanted them around to pollinate other things. I really want to try some red clover tea now. I love tea and I bet if I looked it is actually an ingredient in some tea I have in my tea drawer.
When I was little, my Grandmother would make Clover syrup by steeping the clover flowers overnight in hot water, then straining the liquid, adding sugar and boiling it for 4 hours.
I’m infusing some Red Clover right now, glad you’re promoting this amazing plant!
Mmmmm, and all those wonderful minerals. I want some.
As a child (away-back-in-the-day!) we would pluck the little tube shaped blooms off a flower head and suck out the sweet nectar.
As an apartment based sprout farmer, I’d very much like to try Red Clover as a sprout. Sounds rather yummy.
Jethro Kloss in his book “back to Eden” shared that his parents cured their postman of stomach cancer with red clover and the postman lived out a long normal life
Neat article– I’ve been checking out the blossoms on all the spring clover weeds that have been popping up in my area, but haven’t found any red clover yet! I may need to just plant some.
one of the richest sources of isoflavones, I would love to try
I have sprouted red clover seeds, very easy and fun. Haven’t tried making a tea with the blossoms, that sounds really intriguing. Thanks for the opportunity to learn more.
When I was a child, I used to make a habit of eating red clover flowers. For some reason, I just loved them but my Mom insisted that I not eat them. I didn’t realize they could be good for you…I can’t wait to tell Mom lol.
I really enjoy redclover tea, and often mix the blossoms with mullein and plantain for helping friends and family lick congestion. The “honey sipping” flower of our childhood!
I like to sprout the seeds, nice addition to so many raw “sandwiches” and salads. Good things come in small packages!
I would love to try this out!
Thanks so much for sharing the info on red clover. I’ve never used it before, but my interest is definitely peaked now.
Red clover looks like a very beneficial herb.
red clover is an awesome herb, great for women like me!
I’d love to give this as a Mother’s day gift since it helps prevent osteoporosis & can reduce inflammation since she’s doing Interferon treatment I’m sure it’d be helpful for her.
It’s amazing what little treasures are all around us. Our cures are right in front of us. Underneath our toes, underneath our nose, so it grows…and grows…and grows.
Thank you for this opportunity
Red Clover is in my top 5 sprouts. I enjoy it in salads and smoothies.
I always learn new things on your site!
I clicked on red clover/herb of the month out of curiosity, but the moment I saw the picture of it, instantly, before I even read how good it is for us…a vision came into my mind of myself as a child, happily munching on them! They are so sweet and good…and then it occured to me…how did I ‘know’ or even think to eat them! lol…, as an adult I had ‘forgotten how much I enjoyed them, and now that I know they are even good for me I will be excited to enjoy them again!
very interesting ….thanks for sharing
Ive never had red clover in any form but should really get into it now
I have no tips for using red clover since I have not used it yet but I would really love the chance to do so.
Hi Ingrid,
How are you?
All I know is that Red Clover is good for you. I’ve never tried it before and will be learning more about it.
Take care!
I remember seeing it as a child, but I didn’t know how wonderful it is! This sounds like a fantastic healing plant and I would love to try it!
I’ve heard that Red Clover helps build up the immune system, and I’d love to find out more about it!
I’d love to put this in tea, to help build up my immune system!
I have never used red clover before. I would love to learn more about it. Thanks.
I’ve never tried it before and would like to.
Congratulations Karen!!! You are the winner of Raw Epicurean’s Herb of the Month giveaway.
You wrote:
Now you’ll have a chance to try Red Clover. It is on its way to you, courtesy of our sponsor Mountain Rose Herbs.
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this drawing. Our next herb of the month is Coriander.
i LOVE red clover!! we use it in an allergy tea blend. FABULOUS stuff.
Clover flowers are delicious, scramble some eggs for an omlet and add the flowers to one side and fold over. Crack some black pepper over the omlet and serve..
I always thought clovers would be a tasty treat! Thanks for the info-now I can’t wait to grow, harvest and enjoy!
Janie
Thank you for featuring RED CLOVER!!
I picked a beautiful fresh bundle just the other day and now I am inspired to keep using it in my dishes while it is in season. I had also never thought of growing it in our yard before, now I look forward to cultivating it , and even providing the Bees with more wild flower foods as opposed to all the pesticide ridden pollen they are exposed to.
:)
I will try to grow Red Clover…thanks for the info.
And Thank you for all those interesting and useful informations about culinary use of red clover.
Federica
Thank you for sharing this information. Many people need to know about the many health benefits of using this wonderful herb. I am one of them looking to learn more and to learn how to grow it most effectively. Make a great day and keep sharing your knowledge.
Thanks again,
Lisa Godfrey
We all must understand education for our whole bodies. Natural food is the only way to keep the high cost of health care, doctors, and drug companies from taking us for a ride.
God gave us all we needed to live on this earth naturaly! We need these types of sites to learn what and how to use them. I depend on them!
Thank you for this site.