What are the benefits of eating dandelions?

Dandelion is now used as a traditional Chinese medicine to help solve and treat some diseases. However, many people still don’t know and understand its main uses and what benefits it has for our health. So if you want to give full play to its effects, then here I will introduce to you in detail the benefits of dandelion and use dandelion to help yourself treat and solve some diseases.

1. Clearing away heat and detoxifying can be used for heat toxicity syndrome, especially good at clearing liver heat, treating red, swollen and painful eyes caused by liver heat, as well as various infections and suppurative diseases.

2. Eliminate carbuncle and disperse nodules. Treat carbuncle, swelling, and ulcer caused by heat and toxins accumulating in muscles, with persistent high fever. It is effective for mastitis, can detoxify, disperse nodules and promote lactation. It can be taken orally or applied externally, and is often used together with honeysuckle. In addition, it can also be used with rhubarb and moutan bark to treat intestinal abscesses.

2. The role of dandelion:

1. Antibacterial: 50% fresh grass juice, using the flat plate trench method, has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi; 50% whole grass decoction, using the flat plate trench method, has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

2. Antifungal: The water extract was diluted by test tube method at a ratio of 1:4, which had an inhibitory effect on Microsporum audouinensis, Trichophyton rubrum, etc.

3. Anti-tumor: Intraperitoneal injection of 30-40 mg/kg of dandelion hot water extract has an anti-tumor effect on mice with Ehrlich ascites carcinoma when given 11-20 days after subcutaneous inoculation, but is ineffective when given 1-10 days after inoculation. Its anti-tumor effect is similar to that of Lentinan, and is achieved through immune mechanisms. In addition, this product also has anti-gastric ulcer, choleretic and liver-protecting effects. Uses of dandelion: 1. Clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules: mainly used to treat heat-toxic sores and carbuncles. a. Excessive fire and heat toxins attack the upper part of the body, causing red eyes, swollen throat, and ulcers in the mouth and tongue. b. Heat-toxic sores, painful and swollen breast abscess, and internal attack of carbuncle. c. Lung abscess causes coughing up pus and blood, while intestinal abscess causes abdominal pain and fever.

After reading the benefits of dandelions introduced above, you should now know whether you can use it to treat and solve certain diseases in your body! Because treatment through this method is healthier than using some Western medicine, and will not cause side effects or other problems.