Difference between dandelion and Brahmi
The plant body of dandelion contains dandelion alcohol, dandelionin, choline, organic acids, inulin and other healthy nutrients. Taste sweet, slightly bitter, cold. Attributed to the liver, stomach meridian. It has diuretic, diaphoretic, jaundice, bile and other effects. It can treat fever, carbuncle, sores, internal carbuncle, eye redness and swelling pain, dampness and heat, jaundice, urinary drenching and astringent pain, boils and poisons, breast carbuncle, scrofula, toothache, redness of the eyes, sore throat, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, dampness and heat jaundice, as well as heat drenching and astringent pain.
About the origin of the name of dandelion "granny ding", it is said that a long time ago, there is a village called Dingjiawubing in Songnen Plain, in which there is a family in the village is more famous, that is, Sai Shenxian Ding Widow's family. Widow Ding lost her husband in middle age and brought up a son and a woman on her own. Her son grew up and married a virtuous daughter-in-law, but Widow Ding abused her daughter-in-law.
On one occasion, Widow Ding asked for endive in a dipping sauce. Xiaomei went to the field, but did not find endive, only to see on the sunny slope there is a kind of wild vegetables that can not be named, it is earlier than endive germination, the leaves have serrated. So Xiaomei picked it home and made it into a dish. But Widow Ding ate it and got red spots all over her body, which eventually turned into blisters. The widow thought it was poisoned by Xiaomei and made a fuss at the county court.
The county magistrate asked a famous doctor in the county to come to treat Widow Ding. After the old Chinese doctor came, the truth was revealed. The original widow Ding was eager to see her son, and she saw her daughter-in-law in a bad light, and her fire was pent up in her heart, which led to her liver fire, and she developed these herpes. Later, the old Chinese doctor named it "mother-in-law boil".