The traditional Chinese medicine name of dandelion grass is dandelion, dandelion has the efficacy and function of clearing away heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body), dispersing knots and eliminating swellings, and inducing diuresis and drenching.
Dandelion is the dried whole grass of dandelion plant of Asteraceae family, cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, belonging to liver and stomach meridian. Its main effect is to clear away heat and detoxification, dissipate lumps and swellings, and promote dampness and diuresis.
It is mainly used in the treatment of carbuncle and furuncle (a skin disease referring to severe furuncle), breast carbuncle and carbuncle, redness and swelling of the eyes, jaundice with dampness-heat, hot lymph (burning and stinging pain when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling in the abdomen) and astringent pain.
Adverse effects of dandelion have not been precisely documented, because of its bitter-cold taste, so the vegetative body of the spleen and stomach cold (spleen and stomach weak cold) people should be careful to use dandelion. Excessive dosage of this product may cause slow diarrhea.
If you need to use dandelion, it is recommended that you choose it after clear identification by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and do not blindly purchase the medicine on your own, so as not to affect the efficacy of the treatment.