As food, spring is the peak season for picking dandelions. People make the picked dandelions into cold dishes or dip them in sauce, and some make pot stickers with jiaozi (personally, they prefer pot stickers). There are also many people who have learned from the internet to make dandelion into tea, which is convenient for soaking in water in summer, autumn and winter. 1, make dandelion leaves into dandelion leaf tea: just wash the freshly dug dandelion leaves, dry them in the sun and put them in a glass bottle for preservation. 2. Make dandelion roots into dandelion root tea: wash the freshly dug dandelion roots and throw the water on them. Cut it into pieces and dry it in the oven. Or steamed and dried in the sun. Just remove the water. Put it in a glass bottle and drink it with a little soaking water at ordinary times. As a medicine, dandelion, cold in nature, bitter in taste and sweet, belongs to liver meridian and stomach meridian, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation, removing fire, promoting diuresis and resolving hard mass. According to the records of ancient medical literature, "Shu Shu of Materia Medica": "Dandelion breast abscess belongs to the liver meridian, and the liver meridian is the main thing after a woman goes through the menstrual cycle, so a housewife's breast abscess is swollen with milk poison and should be warm." "Tang Herbal Medicine": Dandelion "The housewife's breast is swollen"; Materia Medica Justice: Dandelion's "treatment of breast abscess and breast therapy, swelling and lumps, is especially effective". Modern clinic has also confirmed that dandelion has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on female breast diseases, which can be taken orally and applied externally.
However, due to the cold nature of dandelion, many people are restricted from eating and soaking in water. To reduce the cold nature, we can do this: 1. Dandelion leaves or dandelion roots are treated according to the black tea fermentation process to make dandelion black tea or dandelion root black tea, which can reduce the cold nature of dandelion and is suitable for more people to soak in water. 2, soak dandelion in water, put some warm food, such as jujube, medlar, roses, etc., and just neutralize it. Either way, it is advisable to gradually increase the dosage when drinking at first.
After a brief talk about eating and medicine, what changes will happen to your body after a month if you insist on soaking dandelion in water?
In fact, the number of changes varies from person to person, because everyone has different constitutions and different absorption, so the effect is different. But insisting on soaking dandelion in water will have the following benefits after a long time:
1, eliminating stomach fire and liver fire
Because of the sexual taste of dandelion, we know that soaking dandelion in water will have a better effect on removing stomach fire and liver fire. In addition, some studies have found that dandelion also has a certain effect on chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer, which can make Helicobacter pylori turn negative, heal ulcer surface, stop pain and help mucosal repair. Dandelion also has a good protective effect on liver, and has a better effect on alcoholic liver injury.
2, diuresis, urinary infection has been alleviated
Dandelion has diuretic and anti-inflammatory effects, so it has a good effect on urinary infection, and has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on urethritis, cystitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, acute and chronic pyelonephritis and so on.