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What You Don’t Know About This Supreme Plant…
Dandelion is most often thought of like an irritating weed that takes over people’s gardens and meadows.
It can be a particular nuisance for gardeners by popping up in cracks and crevices everywhere,.
Lucky for us, it is also excellent food and herbal medicine that anyone can find, grow, and put to use.
The peak flowering season for Dandelion is from April to June. Flowering is sporadic during the rest of the year, but some can be found flowering in every month.
The name “dandelion” comes from the French for “dent de lion,” or the Italian “denti di leone,” both of which mean “the lion’s tooth,” a reference to their jagged edges.
Healers have used dandelions for centuries because they are renowned for supporting healthy liver function, and they are full of antioxidants such as beta-carotene and lutein (which is great for healthy eyesight).
The dandelion is also a powerful diuretic (in French it’s also known as “pissenlit,” which means to ‘piss-a-bed’).
Even though Dandelions are at there most tender and most delicious during spring, we can enjoy the health benefits of this powerful plant all year round in the form of dandelion coffee, dandelion tea, and dandelion tinctures. Alternatively, you can go and buy yourself some seeds or Dandelion leaves, which can be found fresh in some health food markets or as a freeze-dried herb.
The coffee and tea have been a potent addition to my health arsenal this year. Although at first, the taste can be quite bitter (especially the coffee granules), it is one that grows on you, and I now look forward to my daily intake of dandelion.
So why is dandelion so good for us?
Well to start with (as I mentioned before) dandelion is a very rich source of beta-carotene which we convert into vitamin A. It is also rich in vitamin C, fibre, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and phosphorus. And it is also a good place to get B complex vitamins, trace minerals, organic sodium, and even vitamin D.
That’s not all…
Another of Dandelion’s benefits is that it contains protein too – more than spinach in fact. It has been eaten for thousands of years and has been used to treat anaemia, scurvy, skin problems, blood disorders, and depression.
This plant is so healing that not so long ago scientists discovered that the root of the dandelion can cure cancer – the leaves are especially rich in the antioxidants and phytonutrients that combat cancer – and that it was hugely more effective than chemotherapy as it only destroys the cancer cells, and leaves the white blood cells alone, unlike its chemical counterpart.
Not only is Dandelion root anti-cancer, as well as cleansing the liver, gallbladder, kidneys and lymph
BUT
It is also used to treat many diseases and symptoms such as:- constipation, edema, arthritis, rheumatism, hepatitis and gallstones.
It can lower blood pressure, it can clean the skin of acne, it helps to regulate blood sugar, boost immune function, fight off microbes and fungi, and it reduces inflammation in the body.
There’s not much this plant can’t help you with.
But what about some of those diseases that are only contracted by women…can it help them?
Well, it should by now come as no surprise to you that Dandelion root is extremely good for treating women’s diseases. Especially the prevention and treatment of various diseases of the breast, such as cysts, cancer, various tumours, swollen breasts, breastfeeding problems and improving breast milk.
Dandelion truly is a wonderful plant capable of giving you fantastic health promoting properties.
In my opinion ,it should be present in everyone’s diet in some way or another.
If it isn’t in your diet yet…don’t you think it’s time it was?
Health & Happiness
Ryan
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