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Dandelion is a little weed with a lot of uses! Here are a few of the treasured ways dandelion can be utilized, an excerpt from The Herbarium:
“The dandelion offers many benefits to those knowledgeable enough to use its treasures. Ellingwood recommended dandelion root as an alterative for blood disorders and chronic skin eruptions, chronic jaundice, rheumatism, chronic gastritis, and mouth ulcers. In TCM, it is used to reduce fire in the liver, and for detoxification, hepatitis, acute infections, flu, skin ulcers, fluid retention, stomach disorders, constipation and breast health. Dandelion leaf, root, and/or flower were used as food and medicine by at least 22 Native North American tribes for tonic effects, blood purification and anemia, gastrointestinal distress, sore throats, breast milk production, laxative, analgesic, kidney trouble, toothache, chest pain/lung disorders, and menstrual cramps. Dandelion was approved by Germany’s Commission E for dyspepsia, stimulation of diuresis, disturbances in bile flow, and loss of appetite. Dandelion root is also in the national pharmacopeias of Austria and the Czech Republic and is listed in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia, the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, and the British Herbal Compendium. David Hoffman calls dandelion

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