As a commonly used Chinese medicinal material, dandelion is often soaked in water and drunk. In fact, not everyone is suitable for taking it. Therefore, if you insist on drinking dandelion every day for a month, there will definitely be changes. Just getting better or worse.

Is dandelion a vegetable or a medicine?

Dandelion is also called mother-in-law and yellow flower. My first impression of it was the "little parachute" in the Chinese textbook that floats in the wind and settles down everywhere. My second impression of it is that it is a wild vegetable that is very popular among Northeastern people.

When I was in the Northeast, every spring, I could see people digging for granola on the roadside, and they could return home with a full load without any effort. When you get home, wash it, blanch it in water, pick it up and eat it with sauce. It’s best not to pick it from the roadside pods, as the environment is seriously polluted. But Northeastern people, especially older people, love Grandma Ding everywhere.

When I opened the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in order to further understand the role of dandelion, I flipped through the "Cao Department" several times, but there was no trace of it. I was just wondering, didn't Li Shizhen record dandelion in "Compendium of Materia Medica"? It suddenly occurred to me that Northeastern people eat it as a pickle, so I went to the "vegetable department" to look for it. Sure enough, Li Shizhen moved dandelion from the "grass part" to the "vegetable part" in "Tang Materia Medica". It can be seen that more and more people eat it as a vegetable.

Who is suitable for taking dandelion? Can I drink dandelion water every day?

From the above introduction to the efficacy of dandelion, we have learned that it is suitable for patients with acute conjunctivitis, acute tonsillitis, acute bronchitis, gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, urinary tract infection, acute mastitis, lymphadenitis, People with adenitis can take dandelion appropriately to play an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory role.

Can I drink dandelion water every day? Regarding this issue, we should analyze it from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the use of symptomatic medicine. As long as the symptoms improve, you can stop taking it. Especially some cold traditional Chinese medicine, if taken for a long time, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach.

For example, the dandelion we are talking about now is a traditional Chinese medicine with bitter and cold properties. Although it can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin as medicine and food, it also has symptoms that it is suitable for, and it can only be used according to the symptoms. It is precisely because of the bitter and cold medicinal properties of dandelion that it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, which can remove heat and toxins in the body. This heat is often actual heat, such as stomach discomfort caused by excessive stomach fire, and excessive liver fire. Liver discomfort, sore throat, tonsillitis, etc. caused by excessive fire in the body can all be improved by taking dandelion to improve symptoms and even achieve therapeutic effects.

However, if the patient has some uncomfortable symptoms caused by deficiency of fire, this is not caused by excessive excess heat in the body, but is often caused by deficiency of yin and excess of fire. These people are not suitable for taking dandelion. In addition, if the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold, it is even more inappropriate to take dandelion. For example, when stomach discomfort occurs, it is not necessarily caused by excessive stomach fire, but may also be stomach pain caused by stomach cold. There are also some people who have a cold body. If they take dandelion, it will undoubtedly make things worse. These people are not suitable to take dandelion.

What changes will happen if you insist on drinking it for a month?

In fact, both those who are symptomatic and those who are not are not suitable to insist on drinking dandelion tea every day for a month. After all, this is a traditional Chinese medicine, which contains three parts of poison, not to mention such a bitter and cold medicine. . For people who are symptomatic, they should stop taking it when their symptoms improve. For people who are not symptomatic, it is not recommended to take it.

So, if you really insist on drinking it for a month, what changes will happen to your body? The biggest change is that those with real fire in the body can effectively remove the heat toxins in the body, thus improving the symptoms of physical discomfort. If you continue to drink it after these symptoms improve, it will only cause damage to the spleen and stomach, and easily lead to gastrointestinal discomfort. .

For those who do not have real fire or heat in their bodies, drinking dandelion tea for a long time will not be beneficial to the body. It will not only easily damage the spleen and stomach, but also cause other symptoms of discomfort in the body, that is, it will Something went wrong with my originally healthy body. For those who have a cold spleen and stomach and a cold constitution, drinking dandelion tea for a long time, not to mention a month, even if they drink it for a few days, will aggravate the spleen and stomach deficiency, prone to indigestion, and even diarrhea. symptom.

So, although dandelion has many functions and can clear away heat and detoxify, it depends on whether it is suitable for the symptoms and the individual's constitution. Even if it is suitable for the symptoms, it is not recommended to drink dandelion tea for a month. This is not beneficial to the body, and it is not suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach to drink dandelion tea.