Dandelion Medicinal

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Instructions for use:

1. Description
2. Application of medicinal properties of dandelion
3. Contraindications

Description of medicinal dandelion

Dandelion is a perennial plant that blooms with bright, noticeable yellow flowers. For medicinal purposes, all parts of the dandelion are used, both its aerial part and the roots. Leaves and flowers are harvested when the plant blooms, and the roots are dug up in early spring or autumn.

Phosphorus, vitamins B, A, C, E, potassium, nickel, copper, manganese, calcium, cobalt, boron, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, phosphorus are found in medicinal dandelion. The following medicinal properties of dandelion are known: sedative, tonic, diaphoretic, choleretic, antipyretic, blood-purifying, bactericidal.

In the description of medicinal dandelion it is said that for long-term storage, flowers and leaves are best dried in the air, hiding from the sun, and often turning over. And the roots of the plant are dried at 50-60 degrees in dryers. The dried parts of the plant should be stored in paper or cardboard containers: flowers and leaves for one or two years, and roots for about five years.

Application of medicinal properties of dandelion

The plant helps to improve the digestive tract, restores strength, improves metabolism, cleanses from toxins, stimulates the activity of the pancreas, and affects the production of insulin.

Preparations on medicinal dandelion cleanse the blood, stimulate the formation of leukocytes and the process of hematopoiesis in general, therefore the plant is recommended to be used for cancer, inflammation of the lymph nodes, and poisoning.

With anemia, it is useful to drink dandelion juice - 50-100 g daily for three weeks. Juice is preferable from young leaves.

In addition, dandelion juice is useful in case of loss of strength, spring vitamin deficiency, deterioration of the digestive tract, poor appetite.

The medicinal properties of dandelion are better manifested if you mix it with black radish juice. This remedy helps well with hepatic colic, gallstone disease, hepatitis, liver disease.

If you mix dandelion juice with carrot juice, you get an effective fracture treatment that promotes rapid bone healing. This mixed juice can be given to children with rickets and the elderly to strengthen bones and prevent bone fractures.

With increased pressure, dandelion powder helps atherosclerosis: it is taken 5g daily, washed down with water.

Juice, a decoction of medicinal dandelion helps with dropsy, gout, rheumatism, urolithiasis, snake bites. With diseases of the joints, you can take these funds inside, make lotions.

In addition, dandelion juice enhances lactation, helps with fever and colds that occur with fever.

To cure herpes on the lips, you need to lubricate the skin on the lips with fresh juice at the first symptoms. It is helpful to take dandelion juice or syrup inside at the same time.

The medicinal properties of dandelion are also used in cosmetology: freckles and age spots are removed with juice. To do this, freckles are smeared with juice three r / day, and persistent spots on the skin - about five r / day. The juice is washed off after it has dried with clean water, milk whey or kefir.

Fresh juice from the stalks of medicinal dandelion can be lubricated 5 r / day for viral warts.

To moisturize the skin on the face, give it more elasticity, a tablespoon of plant juice is mixed with a tablespoon of oatmeal and a teaspoon of honey. The product is applied to the décolleté, neck, face, held for 15-20 minutes, washed off with water.

Dandelion root decoction helps with dysfunction of the thyroid gland. Baths with such a decoction are effective for skin rashes, eczema.

With radiation skin lesions, burns, oil extract from medicinal dandelion helps. To prepare it, crushed dandelion roots are infused for 2 weeks in sunflower or olive oil (1: 4) in a warm place. The resulting oil is applied to the affected skin.

To prepare a decoction of medicinal dandelion root, you need to take one tablespoon of raw materials, pour 250 ml of water, and boil for one minute. After this, the broth is insisted for one hour, filtered. Drink ½ cup broth in the morning, in the evening 30 minutes before meals.

To prepare a decoction of medicinal dandelion leaves, take five tablespoons of table raw materials, pour 300 ml of boiling water and boil for another five minutes, insist for three hours, filter.

The juice from medicinal dandelion is prepared as follows: young leaves are collected, washed, kept in saline for 30 minutes (three tablespoons of salt per liter of boiled cold water). After the leaves have matured, they are washed with plenty of cold water, poured over with boiling water, crushed with a blender or meat grinder, and the juice is squeezed out of the resulting gruel. Before use, the juice is usually diluted with water 1: 1. You can store it for no more than two days in the cold. They drink juice at 0.25 cups two r / day, 20 minutes before meals.

To prepare syrup from medicinal dandelion, first squeeze the juice, and take two parts of sugar for one part of it, mix them and insist in an open container, stirring every hour, until the sugar is completely dissolved within two or three days. After that, the syrup can be poured into a jar and removed in the cold. They drink this syrup in a teaspoon three r / day, it is effective for diseases of the stomach and liver.

Contraindications

In the description of the medicinal dandelion it is indicated that it is contraindicated in the presence of stomach ulcers, increased acidity of stomach juice, with a tendency to frequent diarrhea, hypersensitivity.

Information about the drug is generalized, provided for informational purposes only and does not replace the official instructions. Self-medication is hazardous to health!