Botanical name: Medicago sativa
Alfalfa
Alfalfa actually is the american name for the german name Luzerne.
Healing power:
- Alfalfa-seeds cause a feeling of being full, so that you stop eating and have a reduce of weight.
- Alfalfa decontaminates the liver
- and brings about a positive level of cholesterol.
- Alfalfa dehydrates and prevents so a deposit of water in the body
- and therefore it should help against cellulites.
Description of the plant:
Alfalfa belongs to the clovers and reaches a height of about 1 m.
Alfalfa is able to survive longer droughts because the roots are up to 10 m in the ground. The plant belongs to the family of the peas and beens. Therefore it is able to assimilate nitrogen out of the air to produce proteins with assistence of bacteria in the soil.
Pollination results nearly exclusive through bumblebees.
Alfalfa is perennial and reaches an age up to 5 years. It loves a sunny site in your garden.
Propagation:
Through sowing.
Start seeds in spring in your garden in a soil with a pH value of 6,8 to 7,5.
Alfalfa-seeds germinated after 1 day at temperatures about 25 ° C. This I tested indoors by myself.
Ingredients:
Vitamines A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, D, H and K.
Minerals like calcium, iron, copper, phosphorus, magnesium
Chlorophyll
Proteins
