Dandelion is a common medicinal and edible plant in China. Traditional Chinese medicine and modern medical research show that it has the functions of protecting liver and gallbladder, diuresis, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and auxiliary protection against chemical liver injury. Chinese medicine believes that spring health care should nourish the liver, and dandelion can "protect the liver". You can drink dandelion tea in spring to deal with some common diseases. This article will tell you, but you should know that drinking dandelion water can't treat hepatitis.

China Association for Science and Technology Rumors @ Science Rumors Recently, it is widely rumored that drinking dandelion water can cure hepatitis by removing liver poison. Can dandelion tea really clear away the hepatotoxicity and treat hepatitis? It is pointed out that although scientific research has found that dandelion extract has protective effect on mouse liver, methanol extract is used in the experiment, which has protective effect on liver only at the level of cell experiment and animal experiment. At present, there is no experiment to prove that drinking dandelion tea can treat human hepatitis.

Dandelion can be used as medicine and edible. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, dandelion can clear away heat and toxic materials, detoxify and reduce swelling. In modern textbooks of traditional Chinese medicine, dandelion has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, inducing diuresis and treating stranguria, and has been applied in treating acute mastitis, lymphadenopathy, eye swelling and pain, damp-heat jaundice, cold and fever, sore throat, gastritis, enteritis and other diseases.

Li Chunsheng of Xiyuan Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that you can always drink four kinds of dandelion tea to cope with spring diseases:

Dandelion has the reputation of "natural antibiotic". Pharmacological research shows that dandelion has broad-spectrum bactericidal and bacteriostatic effects, and has inhibitory and killing effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi and Shigella dysenteriae.

Tonsillitis occurs frequently in spring. When tonsillitis occurs, you can get good results by drinking dandelion water 1~3 times continuously.

Recurrent oral ulcers are mostly caused by hemolytic streptococcus, and dandelion can effectively kill this bacteria.

Recommended collocation: dandelion+chrysanthemum morifolium+honeysuckle, which has strong anti-inflammatory and fire-removing effects, can be used to treat wind-heat cold, sore throat, carbuncle and so on.

Modern people often use mobile phones and computers for a long time, which will lead to excessive use of eyes and dizziness. Dandelion can improve common eye diseases.

Recommended match: dried dandelion bud+green tea, which can be used as tea every day.

Keeping in good health in spring focuses on nourishing the liver. Dandelion is often combined with other traditional Chinese medicines to treat hepatitis, cholecystitis and gallstones and restore liver function.

Recommended collocation: dandelion+medlar, nourishing yin and blood, nourishing and protecting liver, suitable for people with weak kidney qi and excessive liver fire.

Dandelion can obviously reduce gastric mucosal injury, improve gastric mucosal blood flow and reduce gastric mucosal inflammation.

Recommended collocation: dandelion+black tea, dandelion is good, but it is cold, and black tea is warm, which can dispel the cold of dandelion. The combination of the two can nourish the stomach, detoxify, promote fluid production and clear heat, and is suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and "three highs".

Dandelion has many advantages. You can make it yourself at home or go to the drugstore to buy it. When making it yourself, the newly dug dandelion roots must be preserved, cleaned, steamed for three to five minutes, dried in the sun, stored in a cool and ventilated place, and brewed with boiling water when drinking tea.

Always drink dandelion tea, pay attention to the following five points:

1. Use with caution in people with low blood pressure;

2. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not drink dandelion tea alone. Because dandelion is cold, drink it with warm products, such as black tea, roses, red dates and ginger slices.

3. Drink dandelion tea hot, don't drink herbal tea;

4. Don't drink too much at a time. The recommended daily oral dose is 10 to 60 grams, which will hurt the spleen and stomach;

5. Drinking dandelion tea needs to be tailored according to one's physique and illness.

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References: Li Chunsheng. Drink dandelion tea to deal with common diseases in spring [N]. Health Times, 20 18-04- 19(009).