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Bot.: Taraxacum officinale

Löwenzahn:Büte/Dandelion in blossom

Chinese name: Pu gung Ying

Healing power:
- Dandelion promotes blood circulation of the connective tissue,

- stimulates liver and

- kidneys,

- helps at rheumatism and

- gout.

- Dandelion is said to stop permanently building of gallstone.

- stimulates the production of milk,

- for aching breasts,

- tumor of the breast,

- tuberculosis,

- snake bites,

- blood clots in the lung,

- food poisoning,

- against hangover after to much alcohol,

- at fever,

- for cleansing of the blood,

- for swelling down.

- Dried roots are used as substitute for coffee.

- In homoeopathy the remedy taraxacum is used for gall bladder trouble,

- lack of appetite,

- liver trouble,

- kidney trouble,

- stomach trouble.

How to use:
You use the young leaves and the roots. Both parts of the plant are picked in spring and dried. The little young leaves are eaten in spring salads.
By running of a anti-aging-cure you can take Dandelion juice or tea from the leaves.
The cure should last 5 weeks.
Recipe for the Dandelion tea:
Mix 1/8 litre water with 1 dessert spoon Dandelion, boil it only for a short time. Let it draw 10 minutes. Drink 1 cup of Dandelion tea two times per day.

Description of the plant:
Dandelion flowers from March to April yellow on fields, meadows, in gardens and lawns.
The plant builds a tap root.
The stem has got a sticky latex, which can cause bad spots on your clothes.
The little seeds are hanging at miniparachutes.
Dandelion belongs to the herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.
In Chinese medicine Dandelion is responsible for the organs liver and stomach, the energy belonging is cold and the taste bitter and sweet.

Ingredients:
Essential oil, bitter substitutes, carotinoids, flavonoids, tanning agents, inulin, minerals like calcium, mucous substances, trace elements, steroles, triterpenes, vitamins a,b and c.