Description
Annual forage plant, erect, branched, perennial, 45-100 cm high. Erect
and smooth stems; trifoliate leaves. Oblong or obovate folioles, about 2
cm long and 0.5 cm wide. The flowers are blue, sustained in a
dense, cylindrical cluster. The fruit is an open spiral legume.
Part used
Aerial parts and seeds.
Indications
Alfalfa is a plant with high nutritional value as well as a good
therapeutic element.
> Anemia. Alfalfa is traditionally used to treat anemia caused by
vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
> Convalescences, malnutrition and weight loss.
> Hemorrhages in general.
> Hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia
> Arteriosclerosis.
> Menopause.
> Osteoporosis.