Iklil al-malik - sweet clover

Essence.
These are the flowers of the plant, straw-colored, crescent-shaped While porous, they are still quite hard. Sometimes they are white, sometimes yellow.

Choice.
The best sweet clover is the one that is harder, whitish, bitter in taste and has a more distinct odor. Dioscorides says:  “The best sweet clover is that which has a saffron hue and a more pungent odor, although the odor of this type of plant is naturally weak its color should be as pale as that of fenugreek.”

Nature.
Hot in the first degree, dry in the same degree in general it is complex, but the warmth in it is stronger than the coldness. Badigoros says:  “Melilot is moderately hot and moderately cold.”

Actions and properties.
Sweet clover slightly binds and at the same time dissolves for this reason it promotes the ripening of juices. Badigoros and Galen say: “The main property of sweet clover is to dissolve excess.” They say that squeezed sweet clover juice with maybukh-taj soothes pain. Sweet clover dissolves, thins juices and strengthens organs.

Tumors and acne.
Sweet clover is useful for hot and hard tumors, especially together with maybukhtaj, and also in a mixture with egg white, fenugreek flour, flaxseed, mill dust, chicory or poppy seeds, depending on the place to which it is applied.

Wounds and ulcers.
Sweet clover is useful for wet ulcers, especially for "honey ulcers" when it is smeared with water or in combination with some drying medicine such as ink nuts, dry clay or lentils.

Organs of the head.
Sweet clover is useful for tumors in the ears and soothes ear pain, if it is used with maybukhtaj and other medicines discussed above, in the form of medicinal bandages or in drops of its squeezed juice put into the ears, this helps with the pain faster. A lotion is prepared from sweet clover, which soothes headaches.

Organs of the eye.
Sweet clover in the form of a medicinal dressing with maybukhtaj and those medicines that are said to be used with it helps against eye tumors.

Eruption organs.
It helps with tumors of the anus, testicles and uterus, if it is used in the form of a medicinal dressing with maybukhtaj and medications used with it, and it is boiled with wine. A decoction of its stems and leaves, if drunk, drives out menstruation and expels the fetus. They bathe in its decoction, and it soothes the itching that appears in the testicles.