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Dandelion flower is a precious Chinese herbal medicine. Poria has sweet, bitter and cold properties. It has many functions such as clearing away heat and fire, eliminating carbuncle and knot, anti-inflammatory, dispersing blood, promoting urination, promoting bile secretion, mild laxative, invigorating the stomach and digestion, and anti-cancer. So can pregnant women eat it?

Dandelion is a perennial woody plant of the Asteraceae family, genus Taraxacum. The root is cone-shaped, with a dark brown and wrinkled surface. The leaf edges are sometimes wavy or deeply palmately fissured, and the tip gradually narrows into a leaf stem. The leaf stem and main veins are often reddish purple, and the upper end of the peduncle is dark purple, densely covered with spider-like milky white long soft hairs; the inflorescence is capitulate, the involucre is bell-shaped, the achenes are brown-black, and the long pappus are milky white. The fruiting period is from April to October. Dandelion is also known as yellow flowered dandelion, dandelion, and Huahualang. A perennial woody plant of the Asteraceae family. The inflorescence is capitulate, and the seeds have a ball of milky white pappus on them. After the flowers bloom, they are blown by the wind to new areas, creating the birth of new life.

Nutritional content of dandelion flowers

Raw dandelion flowers contain vitamin D, vitamin C and potassium, as well as iron, calcium, vitamin B22, vitamin B21, magnesium, vitamin B26, folic acid and copper. The actual element composition is mainly water. Every 60 grams of raw dandelion leaves contains 86% water, 1.6 grams of protein, 5.3 grams of carbohydrates, and about 108.8 kilojoules of calories. Dandelion flower cells contain a variety of healthy nutrients such as dandelion alcohol, dandelion flower hormone, choline, citric acid, inulin, etc.

The role and efficacy of dandelion flowers

Poria cocos has sweet, slightly bitter and cold properties. It enters the liver and liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the effects of promoting urination, relieving laxative effects, relieving jaundice and promoting bile secretion. It is used to treat heat toxins, carbuncles, sores, internal abscesses, red and swollen eyes, cold and dampness, jaundice, dribbling and painful urination, furuncle, carbuncle, breast abscess, scrofula, toothache, red eyes, sore throat, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, cold and dampness jaundice, and painful urethritis. It is used to treat subacute mastitis, lymphadenitis, scrofula, carbuncle, subacute conjunctivitis, cold and fever, subacute tonsillitis, subacute bronchitis, stomach disease, hepatitis, cholecystitis, urinary tract infection, etc.

It is very suitable for pregnant women to take. It can be used as medicine, mixed with cold dishes, or eaten with sauce, etc. It also has the effect of promoting lactation. The vitamin C content of dandelion flowers is 50% higher than that of tomatoes, the protein content is twice that of green beans, and the iron content is almost the same as that of jackfruit. But don't eat too much

The leaves of dandelion flowers have the effect of unblocking blocked milk vessels and promoting milk secretion. For mothers who have insufficient milk during breastfeeding, it is a very good milk secretion product. But dandelion flowers are medicine after all and should not be taken in large quantities casually.