Melilot

The melilots are Plante S herbaceous of the family of the Fabacée S and kind Melilotus , of which some Espèce S are cultivated like fodder plants.

The generic name Melilotus is formed starting from the words Greek S μέλι / méli , honey, and λωτός / lôtós , “lotus” or “sweet clover”, by allusion to the character mellifère of the plants of this kind.

General characteristics

Distribution

This kind is originating in the old world: Europe, Asia, North Africa.

Classification

The kind Melilotus is placed in the subfamily of the Faboideae and the tribe of the Trifolieae .

Principal species

  • Melilotus albus Medik., the white Melilot
  • Melilotus altissimus Thuill.
  • Melilotus dentatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Sea-green.
  • Melilotus elegans Salzm. ex Ser., the elegant Melilot
  • Melilotus hirsutus Lipsky
  • Melilotus indicus (L.) All. the Melilot of the Indies
  • Melilotus infestus Guss.
  • Melilotus italicus (L.) Lam., the Melilot of Italy
  • Melilotus macrocarpus Coss. & Durieu
  • Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam., the officinal Melilot or yellow melilot
  • Melilotus polonicus (L.) Desr.
  • Melilotus segetalis (Brot.) Ser.
  • Melilotus siculus (Turra) Vitman ex STRIP CARTOONS Jacks.
  • Melilotus speciosus Durieu
  • Melilotus spicatus (Sm.) Breistr.
  • Melilotus suaveolens Ledeb.
  • Melilotus sulcatus Desf., the Melilot furrowed
  • Melilotus tauricus (Mr. Bieb.) Ser.
  • Melilotus wolgicus Poir.

Use

Sometimes cultivated like fodder, the melilots are likely to cause at the bovines the disease of the “spoiled melilot” when the badly dried hay ferments. Coumarin is transformed then into Dicoumarol, agent anticoagulant, whose ingestion can cause hemorrhages.

Very visited Bee S, they can constitute a good green Manure.

The seeds were used as aromatic and the flowers out of infusion or to scent sweetened desserts.

All have similar properties and among them, the officinal melilot is a medicinal Plante whose flowered celebrities are employed for their properties anti-inflammatory drugs and protective vascular and anti-spasmodic system. They would be preventive Thrombose S and Embolie S. It is employed in popular medicine for its properties resolvent, emollient and calming (sedative).

In phytotherapy it is used in the form of dyeing mother of melilot to look after the heavy legs and puffed out heat and to fight against the undesirable effects of the Ménopause, by its expectorant action on blood.

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