Red Clover Wallpaper, Trifolium pratense

Check out these Red Clover wallpaper images we made for you!

This week we’re featuring Red Clover, Trifolium pratense, a lovely plant that’s good for you and good for the soil – and it’s so pretty!

Red Clover is in the Legume family, and is equally at home as food or medicine – for people, for animals, and for the soil! Red Clover can move nitrogen from the air back down into the soil, which helps create more fertile soil.

Red Clover is also nutritious – it’s got minerals for you that are best available in a long infusion – especially calcium and magnesium – as well as vitamin C and some of the B vitamins. Of course that’s not just good for you, it’s good for grazing animals too. When harvested for hay, it’s got about 15% protein for ruminant animals – plus, they find it quite tasty.

But Red Clover is more than food!

Red Clover is another one of our lymph movers – and really, i can’t stress enough how important this function is for human health, now more than ever.

The lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump of its own – the only way for our lymph to move is if we’re moving our bodies. You’ve probably heard me say that a hundred times if you’ve been around here for any length of time – but: that’s not the end of the story.

Because it’s not just about moving that lymphatic fluid – the juice that washes away all the trash that gets made by our cells as a part of their daily work – it’s about moving it away EFFICIENTLY, and that’s where our lymphatic herbs come in.

There’s two phases to this efficiency. The first is, if the fluid gets thick and gunky, it’s harder to move. That’s just basic physics, right? The lymphatic herbs help keep that fluid from gunking up (i’m remembering a gasoline commercial that always said “drive your engine clean” and it was because that company put some kind of additive in the gas that dissolved oil buildup – lymphatics are like the all-natural version of that!)

The second is that herbs like Red Clover ALSO improve the functioning of the kidneys – who are responsible for managing all that lymph. Extra fluids and trash gets peed out, minerals and anything re-useable gets filtered and saved.

In other words, Red Clover helps collect the trash AND helps take it out, too!

And now i’m thinking of another old commercial – this time the one for Ginsu knives because i’m going to say: But wait, there’s more!!!

Because Red Clover also helps cut through inflammation – see what i did there?

There’s also two ways that Red Clover reduces inflammation – and you can probably guess the first. By keeping the lymph flowing and gunk-free, you get improved immune function, and decreased “artificial” inflammation – or in other words, inflammation that is caused by gunk. The purpose of inflammation is to tell the body that there’s been an injury, or an infection – when the lymph backs up, it starts to create damage that looks like both of those things, so your inflammatory signals go off. It’s not really an injury or infection, and inflammation isn’t really going to solve the problem, but inflammation is the tool your body has to kick off the immune and repair functions, so that’s what it does. Keeping those fluids flowing reduces the number of “false alarms”, and lets you save inflammation signals for when something really is wrong.

Additionally, Red Clover has several different phytoconstituents that help regulate the inflammatory response, basically making sure that it gets shut off promptly when the signal is done, and making sure that you’re only sending as much signal as you really need to get the job done.

Much like Self-Heal, our previous featured herb, Red Clover is reducing that “stagnant inflammation”, and also making sure that your responsive inflammation is only responding as much as necessary, so that your overall inflammation levels stay lower.

But that’s not all! Learn more about working with Red Clover:

• In relation to vascular health, varicose veins, and cholesterol levels in the Cardiovascular Health course
• In relation to menstrual support & uterine health in the Reproductive Health course
• In relation to lymphatic stimulation and the inflammatory process in the Immune Health course

And naturally, Self-Heal is featured in our Materia Medica course, where you’ll learn over 100 of the most important herbs in our practice!

Download the wallpapers:

Laptop/desktop wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image to download. Then find the image on your device and select “Set Desktop Picture”.

Phone wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image or hold on the image for the alt-menu, then select “Save to photos”. Find the picture in your photos and select “Use as Wallpaper”. You may need to “pinch” it in or out to either scale it down to fit your phone or scale it up to fit your phone, depending on which model you have.

You can also go back and view our full set of herbal wallpaper images.