What are the medicinal values ​​of dandelion?

Nowadays, many people are starting to eat wild vegetables. Wild vegetables are non-toxic and pollution-free foods. Eating them regularly can be good for the body. Among them, we have to mention dandelions. This common wild vegetable has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and improving liver function. Many people often suffer from getting angry, oral ulcers, and bad breath in their lives, which are caused by excessive liver fire. So what are the medicinal values ​​of dandelions!

The flower of dandelion, commonly known as bitter herb and bitter herb, is the flower of the dandelion plant of the Asteraceae family. It is a wild plant that can be used as food and medicine. In the spring when flowers are blooming, some people are prone to nervousness, impatience and anger. This is because the liver qi is strong in spring. You can eat more bitter foods that can "reduce heat", so bitter herbs become one of the wild vegetables that people like to eat on the spring table. Dandelion flowers are not only edible, but also have good medicinal value.

Dandelion flowers are cold in nature and bitter in taste, and have the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea. Used to treat sore throat, bacillary dysentery, jaundice, hematuria, hemorrhoids, fistula, carbuncle, appendicitis, tracheitis and other diseases.

Modern pharmacological research shows that dandelions have a good health-care effect on preventing and treating anemia; they have a strong bactericidal effect on Staphylococcus aureus and hemolytic Streptococcus, and also have a certain inhibitory effect on Pneumococcus, meningococcus, diphtheria Corynebacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shigella dysenteriae, etc.

There are also clinical reports that its decoction has a significant inhibitory effect on blood cell deoxygenase in patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia.

1. To treat the initial stage of carbuncle, take 50 grams of fresh dandelion flower, mash it to extract the juice, boil it in water, and add a little warm rice wine to drink.

2. To treat chronic bronchitis, take 500 grams of dandelion, boil it in water, remove the residue and take the juice, then add 12 jujubes and continue boiling until the jujube skin cracks, take out the jujubes, and then concentrate the remaining liquid and boil it into a paste. Take 1 tablespoon of the paste each morning and evening, and eat 1 jujube.

3. To treat liver cirrhosis, take 500 grams of lean pork, 30 grams each of dandelions and Oxalis, stew them together until the pork is cooked, eat the meat and drink the soup.

4. To treat infantile malnutrition, take 250 grams of fresh pork liver and 30 grams of dandelion flowers, stew them together, eat the liver and drink the soup.

In addition to being edible, the medicinal value of dandelion flowers can also be incorporated into traditional Chinese medicine. It has good effects on treating internal heat, bad breath, relieving constipation and urination, and inhibiting bacteria. This vegetable can be eaten cold or directly dipped in sauce. Use dandelion flowers to make soup or porridge, and add a little honey or sugar to remove the bitterness.