Officinal melilot
The officinal Melilot or yellow Mélilot ( Melilotus officinalis ) is a herbaceous plant with yellow flowers of the family of the Fabacées (Leguminous) which is of an interest like fodder plant and like plants mellifère.
Scientific name: Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam. Family of the Fabacée S, subfamily of the Faboideae, tribe of the Trifolieae.
Etymology: literally “lotus with honey” (of the Greek meli , honey, lottos , lotus). It is probablememt about the “trifoliate lotus” of Dioscoride.
Common nouns: Officinal melilot, yellow melilot, yellow small-clover, royal crown, bastard alfalfa, clover of the flies, bleach on grass with the chips. in: melilot, of: Honigklee, it: meliloto .
Description
Plant herbaceous, bi-annual, from 30 to 80 cm in height, with drawn up stems, many small yellow flowers laid out in lengthened bunches. The sheets have three denticulées leaflets. The fruits are not arched right pods, green noirâtres with maturity. It is very widespread, in plain, in the moderate areas of Europe. This plant contains Coumarine, which gives him a pleasant odor.
Use
Sometimes cultivated like fodder, it is 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.She is very visited Abeille S; she can also constitute a good green Manure: for that, one often finds it in the farming Rotation in Organic farming.
It is a medicinal Plante whose flowered celebrities are employed for their properties anti-inflammatory drugs and protective vascular and anti-spasmodic system. They is preventive Thrombose S and Embolie S. It is employed in popular medicine for its properties resolvent, emollient and calming (sedative).
External bonds
- the farm of the melilot