The influence of everyone on dandelion should be the appearance of seeds floating in the wind, as well as the wild grass with small yellow flowers on the roadside that was accidentally crushed. Although dandelion is a very ordinary plant, it has medicinal functions. Dandelion is often used for soaking in water because of its slightly bitter, slightly sweet, and slightly cold characteristics, which can clear heat and diuresis, and is commonly used for calming the mind, diuresis, and carbuncle elimination. In the folk, it is often heard that elders use dandelions to soak in water and drink. In the old days when people couldn't eat and ate tree bark and wild grass, dandelions were a rare life-saving grass that contained some minerals and a lot of water, which could be used to satisfy hunger. Nowadays, it is rare to hear about eating dandelions and soaking dandelions anymore, because the water soaked in dandelions tastes slightly bitter and not pleasant to drink.

Traditional medicine: effective in clearing heat and resolving carbuncle

Dandelion is recorded in many ancient books, such as "Tang Ben Cao", "Ben Cao Shi", "Sui Xi Ju Diet Manual", "Gang Mu Shi Yi", and so on. Due to its slightly bitter nature, dandelion can eliminate carbuncle. In modern times, dandelion is often used to soak water and drink to eliminate female breast swelling, and is often used to assist in the treatment of breast blockage. Breast nodules have symptoms of ulcers, and the effect is good. The bitter and cold nature of dandelion can detoxify heat, dissipate stagnation of qi, regulate redness and redness of the eyes, blush and redness of the face, and other heat symptoms. It is not conducive to urination, and can adjust the condition of dry stool and constipation. In daily "heat clearing" remedies, dandelion may be added to help more or less. In the "Compilation of Medical Forest Essentials", it is mentioned that dandelion can nourish the stomach and spleen. Although dandelion is slightly cold, its cold is not very severe, but it can also relieve stomach heat because it has a sweet taste and sweet food that moistens the spleen, which helps to digest and relieve pressure on the spleen and stomach.

Can dandelions detoxify?

Many sources mention that dandelion has the effect of "anti-inflammatory and detoxifying". In fact, dandelion's water extract has the effect of inhibiting bacteria or cocci in some experiments. However, this is not equivalent to drinking dandelion soaked water can have antibacterial effects. The detoxification here is actually more suitable for traditional medicine's "detoxification", especially in clearing heat and carbuncle, which is where dandelion is better at. Dandelion contains some active ingredients, such as flavonoids, polyphenols, linoleic acid, coniferol, etc. These substances are not abundant. They have antioxidant effects, can protect blood vessels, improve macrophage phagocytic ability, and have disease resistance. However, they can only have a weak effect, and cannot improve immunity and detoxify due to this.

Can dandelion treat three highs?

Dandelion soaking in water cannot treat or improve the three highs, they can only have auxiliary effects from the side. Some exaggerated claims that dandelion can lower blood sugar, fat, and even blood pressure are unreliable. The enlarged effect of dandelion is to reduce swelling and disperse nodules, diuresis and relieve gonorrhea, but these effects are not related to the three highs. Even if dandelion has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, it may have the effect of metabolizing sodium ions and keeping blood pressure more stable, but it is absolutely impossible to use it for reducing blood pressure.

Is it okay to drink dandelion to make tea every day?

Drinking dandelion tea every day also depends on the physical constitution of the population. Although there is no problem with drinking dandelion tea, there are still people who are not suitable for drinking because of the bitter and cold nature of dandelion. People with yang deficiency and external cold, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are still not suitable for drinking it every day, especially those who are prone to diarrhea, and may experience nausea and diarrhea; Drinking dandelion may lead to increased fatigue, decreased appetite, and pale complexion in a cold body; Some people who are allergic to dandelion should never drink it. If the fever is severe, drinking dandelions every day is fine.

If you drink dandelion flower tea purchased by a legitimate manufacturer, it is not a problem. However, if you bring it home by yourself from the roadside, you should be careful, as other pollutants may invade the roadside and hygiene cannot be guaranteed.