Dandelion is a cold herb.
Dandelion is a heat-clearing herb with a sweet, bitter taste and cold nature, and is attributed to the liver and stomach meridians. The efficacy of dandelion is mainly to clear heat and detoxify (remove heat and toxicity in the body), relieve dampness, eliminate swelling and dissipate lumps, and treat conditions such as redness of the eyes, sore throat, breast carbuncle, lung carbuncle, damp-heat jaundice, and heat drenching (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by urinary urgency, and discomfort of pulling in the lower abdomen) and astringent pain.
Dandelion is cold in nature, the dosage has clear limitations, large amounts of application can easily lead to spleen and stomach cold (spleen and stomach weakness and cold), attention should be paid to compounding, and attention to the frail, cold patients, allergy, contraindicated, pregnant women, menstruation, use with caution.
Patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions for rational use of drugs, do not blindly self-medication.