Dandelion is dug out directly, washed with water, dried and soaked in water, and cannot be scalded with boiling water and then dried. Soak dry food in water, and fresh food can be used as a cold dish. Dandelion belongs to traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, diuresis, relieving vexation, eliminating carbuncle and resolving hard mass.

Mother-in-law, the scientific name is dandelion, also known as Huanghuamiao, Huanghuangdi, Huanghuanglang, Mu Yam, grout, patch, milk or bitter alfalfa. For perennial herbs, the leaves are obovate-lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1 to several scapes, which are as long as or slightly longer than the leaves. Achenes obovate-lanceolate, dark brown,. The flowering period is April-September, and the fruiting period is May-65438+1October.

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Dandelion can cure diseases, as recorded in ancient books? . For example, Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said, "If a woman's breast is swollen, boil it with water, sweat it, seal it, and it will disappear immediately. Remove food toxin, qi stagnation, heat toxin, malignant swelling and tuberculosis, treat swelling ... blackening hair and strengthening bones and muscles. White juice: just apply evil thorns and fox urine thorns. " Modern medicine also confirms that dandelion has high medicinal value.

Triterpenoid alcohols contained in its roots are dandelion sterol, dandelion sainol, dandelion picrin, caffeic acid, inulin and pectin. The whole plant contains inositol, asparagine, picrin, saponin, resin, inulin, pectin and choline; Does the flower contain Ranunculin and Vitamin B 2? . Dandelion has certain bactericidal effect on staphylococcus aureus resistant strains, hemolytic streptococcus and pneumococcus, meningococcus, diphtheria bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus, typhoid bacillus and dysentery bacillus.

Efficacy and function: clearing away heat and toxic materials; Eliminate carbuncle and loose knot. Main breast carbuncle; Carbuncle of lung; Intestinal carbuncle; Sore; Furuncle, sore and swelling; Eyes red and swollen; Cold and fever; Cough; Sore throat; Stomach fire; Enteritis; Dysentery; Hepatitis; Gallbladder scare inflammation; Urinary tract infection; Snake and insect bites. Used for furuncle, swelling, breast carbuncle, carbuncle, conjunctival congestion, sore throat, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, damp-heat jaundice, and heat stranguria. ?

For a long time, a large number of facts have proved that dandelion is a precious Chinese herbal medicine with sweet, bitter and cold nature. Clearing away heat and toxic materials can be used for heat toxin syndrome, especially for clearing liver heat and treating liver fire, red eyes, swelling and pain, various infections and purulent diseases. Eliminating carbuncle and resolving stagnation can treat carbuncle, swelling, sore and toxin caused by heat toxin and muscle mass, and high fever persists. It has a good curative effect on breast abscess, and can detoxify, dissipate stagnation and promote lactation. It can be taken orally or externally. It is often combined with honeysuckle. In addition, rhubarb and peony bark can be used to treat intestinal carbuncle. ?

Indications: acute mastitis, mumps, lymphadenitis, carbuncle and sore, acute conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, cold and fever, acute tonsillitis, rheumatoid arthritis, acute bronchitis, gastritis, hepatitis, etc. Pneumonia, cholecystitis, acute and chronic appendicitis, urinary system infection, osteomyelitis, vaginitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, duodenal ulcer, acne, acne, lithiasis and various cancers.

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