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| Common Names |
| Dandelion , Priest's crown, Swine's Snout |
| Botanical Name |
| Taraxacum officinale |
| Family |
| ASTERACEAE or COMPOSITAE Sunflower family |
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| Parts Used: roots,flowers,leaves |
| Constituents:the bitter principle taraxacin, triterpenes (including taraxol and taraxasterol), sterols, inulin, sugars, pectin, glycosides, choline, phenolic acids, asparagine, vitamins, potassium. Leaves: lutein, violaxan-thin, and other carotenoids; bitter substance |
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All parts of the dandelion are used today, the roots for hepatitis, the leaves and crowns for salads and cooked greens, the flowers for making wine, and the juice to cure warts and blisters.
Like burdock, dandelion root helps the body dispose of unwanted skin bacteria. It also stimulates digestion and supports the liver- the major organ that helps rid the body of toxins and excess hormones, including the androgens that trigger acne breakouts
This common lawn "weed" contains a complex array of nutrients and phytochemicals including taraxacin, a hepatic stimulant, insulin, as sugar, lacvulin, choline, one of the Vitamin B complex, phytosterols, which prevent the body from accumulating cholesterols, and potash, which is a diuretic. The plant is also great source of bone-building nutrients, boron, calcium and silicon.
The leaves provide vitamins A and C, (the vitamin A content is higher than that of carrots) the flowers are one of the best sources of lecithin, a nutrient that elevates the brains acetylcholine and may play a role in stemming Alzheimer's disease. Lecithin is also good for liver problems. |
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All parts of the dandelion are in use today, the roots for hepatitis, the leaves and crowns fro salads and cooked greens, the flowers for making wine and the juice for curing warts and blisters. Both the dried roots and leaves are used as tea. Prepare the roots as a decoction and the leaves as an infusion.
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The chinese dandelion, Chin Hung ,Taxaxacum mongolicum is used by them as a specific for appendicitis,and has been used to treat infections, particularly mastitis. |
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| IBS | | Roasted dandelion is a gentle laxative, helping the liver and kidneys to do their work and keeping the bowels in a healthy condition, so that
it offers great advantages to dyspeptics (Irritable Bowel Syndrome/indigestion) and does not cause wakefulness. 359
(Grieve, Maude ) | | Liver Support | | Dandelion contains taraxacin, a hepatic stimulant, insulin, as sugar, and lecithin, also good for liver problems. 360
(Dawson,Adele ) | | Alzheimer's disease | | The leaves provide vitamins A and C, the flowers are one of the best sources of lecthin, a nutrient that elevates the brains acetylcholine and may play a role in stemming Alzheimer's disease.
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(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) | | Acne, excess hormones | | Dandelion root helps the body dispose of unwanted skin bacteria,toxins and excess hormones, including the androgens that trigger acne breakouts. 579
(White,Linda B., M.D. ) | | Diuretic, potassium | | One of the safest and most effective diuretics, it is rich in natural potassium, which enriches the body's supply. The diuretic power of the dandelion has been favourably compared with a common diuretic drug, Frusemide. 921
(Mabey, Richard p52) | | Bloating, PMS, breast tenderness | | Dandelion leaf is highly effective for menstrual bloating, PMS, and the breast tenderness associated with water retention 920
(Gladstar, Rosemary ) | | Liver tonic, female system tonic | | As a specific herb for the liver, it also benefits the female reproductive system by helping to regulate and normalize hormone production. 731
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| Always make sure the dandelion greens you are harvesting have never been sprayed with herbicide. If they have, don't try washing them, just move on to another patch. |
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- Flowers:Solitary, golden yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, containing 150 to 200 perfect ray florets on a flat receptacle at the top of a hollow, milky scape 2 to 18 in. tall.
- Leaves: From a very deep, thick, bitter root; oblong to spatulate in outline, irregularly jagged.
- Preferred Habitat:Lawns, fields, grassy waste places.
- Flowering Season:Every month in the year
- Distribution:Around the civilized world.
All nations know the plant by some equivalent for the name dent de lion - lion's tooth, which the jagged edges of the leaves suggest.
After flowering, it again looks like a bud, lowering its head to mature seed unobserved. Presently rising on a gradually lengthened scape to elevate it where there is no interruption for the passing breeze from surrounding rivals, the transformed head, now globular, white, airy, is even more exquisite, set as it is with scores of tiny parachutes ready to sail away. A child's breath puffing out the time of day, a vireo plucking at the fluffy ball for lining to put in its nest, the summer breeze, the scythe, rake, and mowing machines, sudden gusts of winds sweeping the country before thunderstorms - these are among the agents that set the flying vagabonds free. In the hay used for packing they travel to foreign lands in ships, and, once landed, readily adapt themselves to conditions as they find them. After soaking in the briny ocean for twenty-eight days - long enough for a current to carry them a thousand miles along the coast, they are still able to germinate.
Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
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Whether the dandelion is a native American plant or a naturalized plant is debatable, it is found and eaten in many parts of the world. The Latin name for dandelion was dens leaonis and the French name of dent de liaon evolved in English to the present dandelion.
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 It is under the dominion of Jupiter. It is of an opening and cleansing quality, and therefore very effectual for the obstructions of the liver, gall and spleen, and the diseases that arise from them, as the jaundice, and hypochondriac Nicholas Culpeper |
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