Nowadays, more and more people pay attention to health preservation. People turn to wild vegetables for health preservation. Wild vegetables are natural and pollution-free and grown locally. Eating them often is good for the body. One of the most common wild vegetables is dandelion. Dandelion is a very bitter vegetable, but it has good nutritional value for the body. In addition to being eaten cold, it can also be pickled to enhance the body's resistance. So what are the medicinal values of dandelion? Dandelion, also known as bitter lettuce, bitter lettuce, and chicory, is a perennial herb belonging to the Asteraceae family. In terms of appearance, the stems of bitter herb are upright, and the leaves are lanceolate or round, usually deeply pinnate. The edges have irregular sharp teeth. The inflorescence is terminal and the corolla is yellow. The consumption of bitter herbs by the people has a history of more than 2,000 years, and it is also often used as a herbal medicine. Eating bitter vegetables helps promote the synthesis of antibodies in the human body, enhance the body's immunity, and promote brain function. The rich iron in bitter herbs helps prevent anemia, the various inorganic salts and trace elements are beneficial to the growth and development of children, and the multiple vitamins can promote wound healing and prevent vitamin deficiency. The medicinal value of dandelion is also very extensive. Boiling bitter herbs in water and drinking it as tea can help treat acute bacterial dysentery; adding a little wine to the bitter herbs soup can treat hematuria; the flowers of bitter herbs can be boiled in water and taken. It can help in the treatment of acute icteric hepatitis; wash the bitter herbs, squeeze out the juice, add a small amount of fresh ginger juice and mix well, apply it to the sores, which can help wound healing, relieve pain, etc. The medicinal value of dandelion is very high. Do you know all this? The weather is quite hot now. The body is most likely to get inflamed in summer. The weather itself is dry, so you should eat more foods that clear away heat and detoxify. Speaking of this, we have to mention dandelions. Although dandelions are bitter, they can clear away heat and detoxify, expel toxins, prevent acne, reduce pigmentation, relieve allergies and dry body. Dandelions have good medicinal value. |
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