Taraxacum officinale

Background Taraxacum officinale (G.H. Weber ex Wiggers), commonly known as dandelion, is a herbaceous plant native to North America, Europe and Asia. This plant has been used for health purposes since ancient times. The phytochemicals present in different parts of the plant are responsible for its medicinal properties. In this review, we describe the main health properties of Taraxacum officinale. Main body of the abstract We searched for the main medicinal properties of Taraxacum officinale…

A keepsake dandelion shot before I sprayed the weed killer. They look nice, but still need the land for nicer stuff!

Common ruderal weed native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere of the Old World. Young leaves and unopened buds are eaten raw in salads, while older leaves are cooked. The leaves are high in vitamin A, vitamin C and iron, carrying more iron and calcium than spinach. It has diuretic properties; in Belgium season ale called Pissenlit ("wet the bed" in French) is brewed from it.

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19th century lithograph by Carl Friedrich Schmidt Dant y Llew, like Dent de Lion sounding fierce with ragged teeth; as kids we called it ‘wet-the-bed’ (like piss-en-lit), shreds of meaning to compose a memory: Pulling the yellow heads off the stalks we’d sit on the grass plucking each petal, daring each other to nibble, and then “you’ll wet the be-ed” from the girls and we thought of them wetting the bed too and plucked again as, tooth against tooth, we dared damp sheets. On waste ground or…

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Download free image of Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale (1596–1610) by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt. Original from the Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. by Rijksmuseum (Source) about dandelion, botanical dandelion, anselmus boëtius de boodt, dandelion vintage illustration, and dandelion illustration 561558