There are no special contraindications to washing your face with dandelion, but if you are taking dandelion internally, you need to be aware that excessive dosage can lead to slow diarrhea.
Dandelion has the efficacy of clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swelling and dispersing knots, inducing dampness and promoting gonorrhea, and can be used to treat carbuncle furuncles, breast carbuncle (red, swollen, and painful breasts, with milk not being discharged well, and ultimately forming a suppurative disease), lung carbuncle, jaundice with dampness-heat, heat and jaundice, and heat and gonorrhea astringent pain (burning pain and stabbing pain in the urination with frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling in the abdomen), and so on. Excessive internal use may lead to slow diarrhea.
Patients with boils on the face can use dandelion to wash their face, there are no special contraindications, but note that washing the face with this medicine plays a limited role in the medicinal components, it is difficult to play a therapeutic role.
External use of dandelion is recommended to follow the doctor’s instructions after pounding the external use, or decoction of the affected area fumigation. When the body is not well, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time, do not blindly self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.