Melilotus officinalis (alba) - Sweet clover
"CONSTITUENTS: Coumarin, melilotic acid, coumaric acid.
PREPARATIONS: Emplastrum Meliloti, Melilot plaster. Specific Melilotus. Dose: from one to ten drops.
Therapy: Melilotus is a stimulant to the local circulation, and is adapted to those cases where debility or a feeble vital power, as in delicate females and poorly nourished infants, is associated with congestion, as in atonic neuralgias and spasms occurring during the period of dentition, and in congestion of the uterus, ovaries, rectum, bowels, stomach, or bladder in feeble subjects. It is also a remedy for pain from determination of blood as in headache with throbbing.
An ointment made from the leaves is an efficacious application to all kinds of ulcers.
A fomentation of the leaves and flowering tops may be applied with good effect in inflammation of joints, and local pain in the abdomen.
Engorged conditions of the uterus are treated very successfully by four or five-drop doses every two hours of melilotus."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)