clinicalherbalist: White clover (Trifolium repens). Native to Eurasia but introduced here (and lots

White clover (Trifolium repens). Native to Eurasia but introduced here (and lots of other places) as a pasture crop for livestock like cows and honeybees. The leaves are edible and taste like green beans. The flowers are sweeter. White clover doesn’t normally have the estrogenic effect that red clover and some other clovers have.
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Medicinally, it is a safe and gentle antiparasitic that will aid the body in getting rid of tapeworms. They’re not much of an issue where i live now, but are in some places, and i’ve had occasion to use it for this purpose a few times.
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In irish, clover is “seamair” and the diminutive “seamairóg” is where english gets the word “shamrock”
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