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Botanical Name |
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Trifolium repens Linn. |
English
Name |
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White Clover |
Family |
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Fabaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A perennial, creeping herb. Stems solid, rooting at the nodes; leaves long- petioled, 3-foliolate: leaflets cuneate-obovate to broadly oblong, 1-3 cm x 0.7-2.5 cm, dull green or occasionally white-marbled, denticulate; flowers white or pinkish, in globose heads, 1.5-2.0 cm in diam, pods sessile, linear, 3-4-seeded; seeds ovoid, truncate', yellowish. |
| Herb Effects |
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Diuretic, toxic, antirheumatic, antiscrophulatic, depurative, detergent and tonic (plant) and astringent. |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Coumarins (plant); alpha and gamma-carotenes, rubicsantin and lycophene (pollen); genistein (leaf). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Coumarins |
81-81-2 |
2-hydroxy-3-(3-oxo-1
-phenyl-butyl)-chrom
en-4-one |
C19H16O4 |
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| alpha-Carotene |
432-70-2 |
(1E,3E,5E,7E,9E,11E,
13E,15E,17E)-3,7,12,
16-tetramethyl-1-(2,
6,6-trimet
hyl-1-cy
clohexenyl)-18-(2,6,
6-trimethyl-1-cycloh
ex-2-enyl)octadeca-1
,3
,5,7,9,11,13,15,
17-nonaene |
C40H56 |
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| gamma-Carotene |
Not Available |
3,7,12,16,20,24-hexa
methyl-1-(2,6,6-trim
ethyl-1-cyclohexenyl
)pentacosa
-1,3,5,7
,9,11,13,15,17,19,23
-undecaene |
C40H56 |
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| Genistein |
446-72-0 |
4,5-dihydroxy-3-(4-h
ydroxyphenyl)-chrome
n-7-one |
C15H10O5 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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In gout (flower); coughs, colds, fevers and leucorrhoea (infusion); in rheumatism and scrofula (plant). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas. |
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