The people upstairs are full of nonsense. I pretend to understand if I don’t understand. This is not a dandelion at all, but a thistle, which is a medicine for stopping bleeding and cooling blood. It is also known as: Echinacea, cat thistle, thorny radish, swordweed, and wild red. Flowers etc.

Thistle belongs to the Asteraceae family. Medicinal whole plant or root. It is cool in nature and sweet in taste. Enters the liver and spleen meridians. Cools blood, removes blood stasis, and stops bleeding. Treats vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stranguria, bloody stools, metrorrhagia, acute infectious hepatitis, traumatic bleeding, boils, and carbuncles.