Dandelion has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, inducing diuresis and treating stranguria, and clearing liver and improving eyesight.

Dandelion, the scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. Alias Huang Hua Di Ding, Po Po Ding, Hua Hua Lang and so on. Perennial herbs of Compositae. A flower head with white crown hairs on its seeds, which floats to a new place with the wind after flowering and breeds new life. It is dried whole grass of dandelion, taraxacine or several plants of the same genus. Bitter, sweet and cold. Mainly used for furuncle, toxic swelling, breast carbuncle, carbuncle swelling, conjunctival congestion, sore throat, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, damp-heat jaundice, heat stranguria and astringent pain.