Sweet clover (scientific name: Melilotus officinalis) is a legume. This plant in south China's northeast, north, southwest, and the Yangtze River Basin has wild species distribution. The grassland production in Europe, Asia and Europe, Turkey, Iran and Siberia and other places are distributed.
From the nutrients contained in sweet clover, the crude protein it contains, crude fat, crude fiber and nitrogen-free extract and other than white flowers and sweet clover, Melilotus officinalis and nutrient content Melilotus India are high. In particular seed crude protein content as high as 31.2%. Visible sweet clover is not only a good forage, but also a good protein feed. Nutrients from sweet clover to see, both in the feed, or dry, the total energy content of digestible energy, metabolizable energy and digestible protein in forage legumes are also relatively high. As can be seen, the nutritional value of sweet clover is quite high. Sweet clover contains a variety of mineral nutrients and trace elements, nutrients and soil fertility to increase livestock, are very important. Sweet clover also contains a volatile oil. It contains coumarin (0.5 to 1.5%) lower than the white and yellow sweet clover trifolitoxin content higher than a fine-tooth sweet clover content. This shows that the palatability than the first two, but worse than the latter. Sweet clover honey, rich pink, sweet clover finished after mining bees, swarm the potential growth of 30% to 50%. As water conservation plant is also very good; especially its root system, more nodules and roots, stems, leaves, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and trace elements, as a grain crop rotation, green manure between varieties or repression to fertilize the soil, is very promising. In herbal medicine, the sweet clover is authentic, "the provision of sweat grass", its function is: detoxification, insecticide dampness, heat treating chest, stomach problems, malaria, dysentery, gonorrhea, skin sores, bad breath, and so many headache syndromes. Its root is called "stinky alfalfa roots." Can detoxify, attending lymphatic system.