243. Trifolium pratense. 243a. Trifolium repens.—White Clover.

243. TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE Linné (Trifolium, N.F.).—The flowering tops of this, our common red clover, are now being used quite extensively as an alterative; they are also deobstruent and sedative in whooping-cough.

243a. TRIFOLIUM REPENS.—WHITE CLOVER. The tops are used in whooping-cough and other spasmodic affections, in the form of infusion.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.