Dandelions: useful and medicinal properties
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Useful properties of ordinary dandelions
Of course, summer residents shout with one voice: “Never!” A spring meadow with yellow-headed dandelions somewhere in the park looks amazing! But sprawling greasy jackets of cheerful flowers in a model garden is a real disgrace and a spot on the reputation of the mistress of the garden.
Now, if a dandelion could grow strictly in a specially fenced place and not spread throughout the garden! Alas, this plant is not capable. One dandelion inflorescence gives up to 200 seeds, and a whole bush - up to three thousand. In addition, thanks to such a modern method of distribution as a parachute, it is unlikely that the dandelion will sit in one place. Therefore, if your garden is not designed in a natural style, then the dandelion will forever remain the worst weed, and, furiously mowing the cheerful yellow heads, take comfort in one: your garden has been visited by a very medicinal plant!
In our region, dandelions are called kulibaba. In spring they grow everywhere, I have a whole field of dandelions in the garden. I do not scold them, but I use the ground part of the plant and roots for medicinal purposes. By the way, in Ancient Greece this plant was called "the elixir of life". The famous Avicenna believed that the juice of a dandelion can defeat a minimum of 100 diseases. And Chinese doctors claim that if you eat 5-10 daily on the petals of a plant, many diseases will go away by themselves.
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Leaves with flowers dry land in the open air in the shade, lay them out in a thin layer, often turn over. I keep the dry plant in paper bags for two years.
Dandelion is rich in vitamins, it contains half of Mendeleyev's table: manganese, potassium, calcium, sodium, iron, aluminum, magnesium, copper. Once the inhabitants of the north, this flower saved from scurvy.
Dandelion: benefit
Oil from the root of a dandelion
It saves from burns. Crushed roots I insist in a warm place on sunflower oil (1: 4) two weeks. If necessary, lubricate the affected area or apply a compress.
Spirituous infusion of dandelion flowers
Effective with rheumatism, pain in the muscles and joints. Sore place rub it up to a burning sensation or I compress: I moisten the fabric in a tincture and apply it to a sore spot.
I take 50 g freshly picked dandelion inflorescences. I put it in a glass jar and pour 0,5 l of vodka. I close the lid and put it away in a dark place for two weeks. I shake it regularly. Two weeks later, I filter, store in a dark cool place.
Water infusion of dandelion flowers
This is a wonderful cosmetology tool. It saves from freckles and age spots. Infusion I use as an ordinary lotion for the face. I rub it clean skin morning and evening. It refreshes and tones up the skin, removes puffiness.
A large handful of fresh or dried inflorescences of dandelion is filled with a glass of boiling water. I insist for 1-2 hours (better in thermos). I cool and filter.
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Spring salad from dandelions
Young dandelion leaves are almost flawless. Therefore, I take a moment and prepare salads from them.
I use leaves only during the flowering period, after the dandelion has faded, there is no sense to collect them: they are coarse and bitter. If nevertheless I collect leaves in the summer, then I pre-soak them on 30-40 min. in saline solution, then bitterness is less. I read that it is proved: a salad of fresh dandelion leaves and powder from their roots lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
Cut 100 g of dandelion leaves, as much green onions, 50 g parsley or celery, 1 egg, season with sour cream, salt and add 1 tsp. sugar, dissolved in 1 art. l. 596 Vinegar.
Dandelion leaves can be added to salads with potatoes, beets, peas, onions, eggs. Undisclosed buds of a dandelion can be marinated, and then they taste like capers.
The real fans of the sun flower are Japanese, Chinese and French. They specifically grow dandelions in containers, just like Rose, and produce decorative varieties. For example, there is already a pink dandelion!
Dandelion cultured: from the Encyclopedia of Plants
In the wild, the DANDYER grows in Europe. Asia. North and South America. Australia and even in Africa. In many European countries it has long been considered a valuable vegetable culture. In many countries it is used as a medicinal plant both in folk medicine and in official medicine.
PORTRAIT.
Herbaceous perennial of the Astro family with a rod thickened root and rosette of cirrus-leaf leaves, up to 25 cm. In the center of the rosette, a doodic shoot develops with an inflorescence-basket of yellow color. Fruit is a small seed with a white tufted parachute. allowing it to fly over long distances. Germination of seeds is maintained for two to three years.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES.
Dandelion leaves are rich in vitamins C, B2, B6, provitamin A, beta-carotene, inulin, and trace elements: iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium. Collect the leaves better in the spring, before the flowering. And the roots, excavated in autumn, accumulate up to 40% inulin, contain mucous and tannins, fatty oils, rubber. Eating fresh leaves stimulates appetite, increases the secretion of gastric juice, tones up the body, lowers cholesterol in the blood, increases the lactation of nursing mothers.
Dandelion juice is an effective remedy for treating skin problems: acne, eczema, boils, etc. Broths and infusions of grass and roots promote the excretion of kidney stones, have a diaphoretic, diuretic and antipyretic effect. Dandelion leaves are used to prepare vitamin salads, it is better to use only young leaves, the old ones are very bitter. To remove the bitterness, the cut greens are soaked in warm salted water for 20-30 minutes or boiled in boiling water 1 minute.
Flower buds are marinated and used for refueling soups, saltwort, pickles, salads. From the inflorescences prepare various drinks: syrups, tinctures, wine, as well as boiled jam, reminiscent of honey, petals are used for coloring dishes. From roasted dried roots make a coffee substitute.
BREEDING CONDITIONS.
In nature dandelion is not exacting to soil conditions, it tolerates drought, cold and frost. But when grown in culture the largest yield of greenery and large roots can be obtained only on fertile, well-drained and sufficiently moist soils.
LANDING AND CARE.
Dandelion is grown by direct seeding of seeds in the soil in early spring or autumn. The seeding depth is 0,5-1, see Shoots appear on the 10-12 day. In the phase of two real leaves, they are thinned, leaving between the plants in a row about 10 cm, the aisles - 20-25 cm. Care for plantings consists of propolis, loosening of row spacing, regular watering and removal of peduncles (when cut into greens). To improve the taste of the leaves a few days before the cut, they are bleached, for which the beds are covered with a black film or muked the planting of mulch, loose earth. Cuttings of leaves are repeated during the summer as they grow. The plantation can be used for several years, the roots excavated in autumn are suitable for greenery forcing during the winter.
DISEASES AND PESTS.
Dandelion is not susceptible to diseases of garden plants. Infusion of leaves and roots are used in the fight against garden pests: mites, leafworms, meds, moles.
GRADE.
Cultivated varieties of dandelion differ from wild ones in larger and tender leaves, as well as their varied color. Popular salad varieties: Red-stemmed dandelion greens' (red-stemmed), 'Puntarelle', 'Lamb's tongue' and 'Frastigliata'.
How to "blow away" a dandelion?
In the specialized literature, scattered information about dandelion is sometimes found. Both good and bad are said about him. But I would still like to know for sure: is it a weed or a vegetable?
Alexander Stanislavovich POLTARATSKY, Mogilev Region, Kostyukovichi
We have to fight the weed
Everyone knows a dandelion. It grows in fields, meadows, parks, kitchen gardens, near houses, along roads. Most do not doubt that it is a weed, and they fight it from early spring until late autumn.
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In abundance settling on meadows and pastures, a dandelion significantly worsens the quality of the grass stand, because its flowers and leaves the animals avoid the side, do not consume them for food. In the garden and the vegetable garden, because of its rapid spring growth, the dandelion intercepts nutrients and water from cultivated plants, and depresses the fragile shoots of cultivated plants.
As with a weed, with a dandelion, of course, it is necessary to fight. And do it not alone, but teaming up with neighbors. After seeding the garden and vegetable garden can occur from nearby areas, where the weed is allowed to grow freely. In addition, the seeds can be brought from the roadside, ruffians, nearby meadows.
In general, if this weed appeared in the summer cottage, you just need to dig it with the root. And it’s better to do this during the period of the buds. At this time, the root system of dandelion is most vulnerable. There is another way to destroy this weed - regular pruning of leaf outlets. As a result of the depletion of the root system, the weed can also die.
The Protector of the Garden
However, a dandelion can do good. From it, the earliest natural plant medicine is prepared, which helps against a disease such as gray rot. It repels pests, including aphids, ants, coffins, various mites. Infusion of dandelions (300 g roots and 400 g leaves chop, pour 10 l water and insist for three hours) is used to spray trees and shrubs on bud buds and during flowering. Do this several times.
Everyone will have it on the table!
This is a valuable food plant. Young leaves of dandelion are used for food as an excellent salad, of which seasonings are made to meat and fish dishes, soups are prepared. Flower buds are marinated and used for refueling salted salads, salads, dishes from the wild. From the roasted roots prepare a delicious and aromatic coffee substitute.
All parts of the plant secrete milky juice - very bitter, but not poisonous. Bitterness is easy to remove. Leaves should be soaked in salted water for 30-40 minutes or blanched in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Dandelion roots are not soaked. It is enough to boil them in salted water for 15-20 minutes.
Recently, dandelion is grown as a vegetable crop in many countries, especially in France. Breeders bred magnificent dandelion varieties with thick fleshy leaves of delicate texture and excellent taste, and technologists developed the basic elements of cultivation technology. So this plant has a great future.
Recipe
Classic dandelion salad: chopped “bleached” (blanched) dandelion leaves, parsley, chives, dressing - crushed garlic, vinegar, vegetable oil.
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Biologists have determined that dandelion releases a large amount of ethylene, which accelerates the ripening of fruits. They strongly recommend keeping a couple of dozen dandelion plants on the site, as its neighborhood is favorable for apple trees and other fruit crops.
The reader was asked by the candidate of agricultural sciences Alexander Vladimirovich GORNY
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Healing recipes from dandelions
For some, dandelion is a weed, while for others it is the embodiment of the beauty and strength of nature. I advise you not to miss that moment of spring, when the first leaves and yellow heads appear in order to get a shock dose of nutrients
Hardly anyone needs to be convinced that a dandelion is useful. No wonder it is called Russian ginseng and the content of useful substances compared with the table of Mendeleev. Only for some reason in the spring they do not hurry to back up their body with incredibly useful elements contained in roots, leaves and flowers. And without much difficulty and for free.
As soon as the dandelion hatch, and the sprouts are still whitish, I cut them and put them into salads. They are less bitter than leaves. Until the leaves have appeared, in the garden, in a clean place, I dig out the roots, peel and force the whole family to eat whole on the spine - to get a spring dose of nutrients. I’m already over 80 years old, health must be helped.
Once, my mother used to make dandelion leaves along with nettles, and we rinsed our heads with this green water after washing. To hair grow better. And when I went to America, it was in Soviet times, everyone gasped there - I had such braids.
I dig up Jerusalem artichoke roots and always eat with garlic. Jerusalem artichoke is now universally added to baby food, it is so useful. Be sure to use the thick heads of the fern when it just begins to crawl out of the ground. Nature has a lot of wealth, right under your feet - just do not pass by.
© Author: Margarita Zhagrina, Bykovo, Moscow Region.
The recipe for dandelion honey
If you are allergic to honey, then it is not necessary to deprive yourself of this wonderful product, it will be replaced by honey dandelion. I have been preparing it for many years according to the old recipe. With pleasure I drink tea with him. And about the benefit itself speaks for itself the popular name of dandelion "doctor with a golden head".
- In an ecologically clean place I collect 250 yellow dandelion heads. This is about 250 g, but depends on the saturation of moisture. In dry weather, flowers are drier and lighter.
- One lemon is finely chopped together with the peel. I mix with dandelions, pour half a liter of water, bring to a boil and cook on low heat 10 minutes. After leaving for a day under the lid.
- Then squeeze the juice (two gauze). I add 700-800 g sugar, put on a small fire. Stirring, I hold until the sugar dissolves. By appearance, a product is obtained that is almost not different from honey bee.
- I rolled it into cans and stored it in a cellar, but it is possible and at room temperature.
© Author: Galina Yablokova, Khotkovo, Moscow Region.
BUTTERFLY OIL
This modest plant with a golden head of inflorescences is considered by most to be a weed, but dandelion has long been valued for its medicinal properties. It is used to treat many diseases.
Dandelion as an anesthetic
This plant is one of the most effective means to relieve pain in the joints and muscles. Dandelion's anti-inflammatory properties have been proven to help in the treatment of arthritis and even gout. In addition, this wonderful flower relieves spasms and headaches.
But in order for the plant to become truly healing, it is best to prepare dandelion flower oil, which is rubbed sore spots. This tool is considered the most powerful effects on the body. But we must remember that the preparation of medicinal raw materials should be conducted only in ecologically clean places, eaten from highways and major cities. Flowers need to be collected in dry and sunny weather.
HOW TO PREPARE THE OIL FROM THE DANDER
I prepare oil in two ways, although, as I have seen in practice, the first is more effective.
The following ingredients are required: 500 of dandelion flowers and 1 of sunflower oil, preferably cold pressed. Flowers (it is not necessary to wash them) should be folded in a jar with a capacity of 1,5 l, pour vegetable oil, tie the neck of glass containers with gauze. Put the jar in a warm, sunny place on the 3 week (I just leave it on the balcony). When the flowers turn brown, strain the contents of the jar through gauze, squeeze well and pour into a sterilized container, preferably from dark glass.
Store healing oil should be in a dark cool place. I have it in the fridge. For rubbing the joints, this medicine is slightly warmed up. I rub oil into sore spots for 2-3 minutes at night, then I tie it up with a soft cloth and go to bed. The oil is stored 1 year.
According to the second method, the preparation is prepared faster, the composition of the ingredients and their mass are the same. Add vegetable oil to the pan and add dandelion flowers. Warm the mixture in a water bath for 30-60 minutes at the slowest fire. The oil should not be too hot, in no case should it be allowed to boil. The longer you manage to warm it without boiling, the more beneficial substances the flowers will release into oil. After heating, pour the entire contents of the pan into a jar and leave in the sun for XNUMX hours. After this, strain the oil through cheesecloth into a container of dark glass. Keep refrigerated.
Almost ginseng
No less useful is the dandelion root, it is literally stuffed with biologically active substances that are beneficial to humans. Connoisseurs call it ginseng, and for good reason. Ingredients include calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, selenium, zinc, vitamins, carotene, glycosides, flavonoids, polysacchides, inulin, choline, sucrose, organic acids, and much more.
Dandelion roots are harvested either in early spring - in April-May, or in autumn from the end of September. When digging in the spring, it is important to do this before flowering. For medicinal raw materials, large roots, cleaned of small lateral roots, are suitable. They are first dried for several days, after which they are washed, cut into pieces and dried in special dryers or laid out on paper in a ventilated room or in the oven at a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees.
Note
Despite the benefits of dandelion roots, there are contraindications to the use of their infusion inside: blockage of the bile ducts, peptic ulcer, and individual intolerance to the plant.
© Author: Anna Ivanovna MURAVTSOVA
DANDELION: FERTILIZER UNDER THE FEET
In the garden and garden, due to its rapid spring growth, dandelion intercepts nutrients and water from cultivated plants, which inhibits only emerging and still immature seedlings of cultivated plants. I share a great way to dispose of its tops, thanks to which the weed turns into fertilizer.
In the spring, like all gardeners, I treat dandelion like a weed: I dig it out with a pitchfork, removing it from the root. I noticed that it is better to do this when the plant just throws out the buds. At this time, until its root system has started to grow, it is easily removed from the ground.
But I do not destroy the uprooted dandelions, but prepare an herbal infusion from them. After all, dandelion is not only a weed, but also a recognized medicinal plant capable of
to accumulate in large quantities not only macro- and microelements (potassium, phosphorus, calcium, nitrogen, iron, manganese, molybdenum, boron), but also biologically active substances. All of them, to one degree or another, are necessary for the growth, flowering and fruiting of horticultural crops. But even though its leaves contain a lot of nitrogen, first of all, dandelion tops are a concentrated potash fertilizer.
I make an infusion from it: a 20-liter plastic barrel
half fill with dandelions and fill with water. It is better to grind the tops, but if there is no time, then you can load it like that. After the end of fermentation, I dilute with water 1:10 and feed all garden crops with this infusion at the root. Cucumbers, peppers and zucchini - until the end of summer, other crops - only until the middle.
The recipe can be improved by adding 10 g of superphosphate for every 30 liters of infusion.
Natalya Zastenkina, agronomist
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Not only leaves can be used as food, but also flowers and dandelion roots.
Salad roots should be cleaned, washed well and mixed with sweet vegetables. And you can cook them for a couple. Flower buds are pickled, put in vegetable soup, in vinaigrettes instead of olives and added to game. And dandelion flowers make excellent jam and tasty light wine. Here are some interesting recipes.
Dandelion salad with sauerkraut
Required: 200 d dandelion leaves, 150 g sauerkraut, 50 g green onions, 1 boiled egg, 60 g sour cream.
Leaves dandelion soak in cold salted water 30 minutes and chop. Pickled sauerkraut from brine. If it is large, then chop it, combine with dandelions, green onions and egg, salt and mix. Fill with sour cream.
Fried baskets
Required: 250 g of dandelion flower baskets, 50 g of crushed crackers, 75 g of butter.
Boil the flower sockets in salted water, fry in butter, sprinkle them with crushed breadcrumbs, serve hot.
Dandelion coffee
Dandelion roots wash well, dry in the oven at 60 degrees
3-4 hours. Then put the roots in a dry frying pan and fry over moderate heat, stirring constantly, until dark brown. Grind roasted roots in a coffee grinder and store in a tightly closed jar. Brew the resulting powder just like coffee.
Vitamin tea
On a glass of boiling water take 1 tsp. dry leaves or 2-3 fresh dandelion leaf. Insist under the lid 5-10 minutes. Drink 1 cup in the morning. In the evening it is better not to use, because tea has a strong diuretic effect.
Darya Dmitrievna CHERNIAEVA, city of Ekaterinburg
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Many anxiously await when weed control begins, which inevitably attacks our beds. I look forward to it with impatience. Indeed, many of the weeds are simply a storehouse of vitamins and literally priceless for health. And the very first - dandelion.
In some countries, this plant was awarded a loud title "yellow ginseng." And he deserved this title by right. If you look at its composition, it turns out that the plant is literally filled with vitamins and minerals. From it I cook delicious and healthy dishes. So we combine the weeding with the harvest of the vitamin crop. Here are the recipes 2 salads that I cook.
May salad
Finely chop 100 of dandelion leaves, the same amount of green onion feathers and 50 of parsley, add chopped boiled egg. Add salt and sour cream. To add an interesting flavor add 1 tsp. sugar, diluted with 5% vinegar.
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In a salad dandelion leaves must be taken before the end of flowering, while they contain the most nutrients. It is best to use the earliest spring leaves, which are gentle and have practically no characteristic bitterness. If you want to cook a salad with dandelions in summer, then to remove the bitter taste, you should soak the leaves for several hours in plain or half an hour in lightly salted water.
Salad "Vitamin Explosion"
Required: 200 g nettle, 100 g sorrel, 20 g flowers and leaves of dandelion, 10 g plantain leaves, 10 g green onions, 1 egg.
Mix all the ingredients, grind in a meat grinder, mix well, then add the chopped boiled egg. Season the salad with vegetable oil, put in a slide in a dish and decorate with circles of radish (if it is ripe by this time). Salt and spices to taste.
Galina V. SEMENTSOVA
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From the usual dandelion can be prepared infusion that helps get rid of ticks, aphids, medyanits on vegetables.
uproot several plants, rinse with cold water. Narva leaves (400 g), cut the roots (200 g) and pour 10 liters of warm water. Insist 3 hours. Then strain and immediately spray those plants that are affected by aphids and ticks. The first time this is done before flowering, the second - after it. So you save vegetable beds from parasites, save on a ready-made remedy for pests and collect an environmentally friendly crop!
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Dandelion "honey" with their own hands
At the time of flowering dandelions, and it is already coming, I always prepare a useful restorative remedy, which I advise all readers. Of course, you only need to collect flowers in places where there is no soil and air pollution.
It is best to do this at noon on a sunny day.
At this time, the inflorescence is very well revealed.
To prepare the medicine will need about 500 flowers, 0,5 l of boiling water, 1 kg of sugar, 2 lemon, 20 fresh cherry leaves.
Inflorescences well rinse with cold water, discarded in a colander and allowed to drain. Then inflorescences, cherry leaves and grated lemons (without pits) on the large grater should be placed in the same bowl that is used for cooking the jam, pour boiling water and cook for 15 minutes, then let 12 hr.
Then it is necessary to crush everything with a stick to the state of gruel, strain through gauze and squeeze well. The resulting liquid should be poured into the jam for cooking jam, bring to a boil, add sugar and cook on low heat, removing the foam, about an hour.
The finished product has a golden yellow color, which makes it look like a natural honey bee. It is perfectly stored at room temperature.
Dandelion "honey" when taken indoors no 1 tsp. In the morning, it positively influences immunity, fights inflammatory processes of any organs, promotes elimination of toxins, sand from the gallbladder, dissolves stones in the kidneys, prevents liver disease, normalizes body temperature and stabilizes the pressure.
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At my dacha, however, like many, a dandelion grows. Of course, I fight with him, but where he does not interfere, I do not touch, because dandelion is a medicinal plant.
In the spring, as soon as dandelion greens appear, I use it for salad preparation (with onion feathers, garlic greens, lobster and dandelion), previously soaked in salted water. For medicinal purposes, young leaves are cut off, washed and dried in the shade, in a well-ventilated place. I apply from anemia: 1 tsp. leaves pour
1 a glass of boiling water, I insist, filter and drink 3 times a day.
When the dandelion starts to bloom, I tear flowers (200 pcs.) And cook honey, which normalizes the pressure and strengthens the immune system. Inflorescences are flooded with salted water for a day. Then I pour out the water and press the flowers. Fill 1 with a glass of water and boil 20 min. on low heat, add sugar (0,5 kg), 1 lemon, grated with skin. I bring to a boil and cook 5 min. I strain the syrup and boil it for another couple of minutes. I pour hot into jars.
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Dandelion really has miraculous properties "
I prefer to use natural cosmetics. I want to share my beauty recipes on the basis of dandelion.
In the early spring I use juice from dandelion leaves to remove acne and freckles. When metabolic disorders, skinheads, rashes, I drink a decoction of dandelion roots. For this 1 art. spoon of crushed roots pour 1 glass of hot water, boil over moderate heat 15 minutes, strain and drink on 1 / 2 glass 3 times a day for 15 minutes before eating.
From freckles, pigment spots, for bleaching face fill 2-3 st. spoons of dandelion flowers 1 a glass of boiling water. I insist in a thermos for half an hour. I rub my face 2-3 times a day.
On dry scalp, oil from fresh dandelion flowers works very well. I pour 0.5 l of sunflower oil in enameled dishes and boil in a water bath 10 minutes. Then close the lid tightly, let stand and pour into a clean glass jar. I'm adding 6 art. spoons of fresh dandelion flowers in a jar with sunflower oil. I close the lid, shake it and put it
8 is a dark place for 2 of the week. Before washing my head, I divide my hair into strands and wipe the skin with a cotton swab dipped in dandelion oil. I tie my head with a towel and after 40 minutes I wash the oil with shampoo for dry hair. And that the hair became fluffy and shiny, in the final stage after washing, I rinse them with acidified water (1 a spoonful of vinegar for 3 l of water).
To improve the metabolism with excess weight, I take 2 art. spoon collection from the leaves of dandelion, nettle, blueberry, hops and corn stigmas, pour 1,5 glass of boiling water, wrap and insist 3 hours, filter and drink on 1 / 3 glass 4 times a day.
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Dandelion for a good appetite
Medicinal dandelion is a common plant with beautiful yellow inflorescences. Delicious vitamin salads are made from dandelion leaves, and the roots are used as a substitute for coffee, tasting something similar to chicory.
For the treatment, roots are mainly used. They should be harvested in autumn, when the leaves begin to fade. To prepare a medicinal broth, the roots should be cleaned and finely-finely chopped. Total should be 3 art. l. Pour the roots 400 ml of water and put on fire. Bring to a boil, and then boil on low heat 15-20 min. After the dandelion broth cools, it must be filtered. Drink on
1 a glass of 2 a day before meals. But this is the norm for exciting the appetite. When liver diseases and chronic constipation is enough to drink half a glass for half an hour before eating.
In the spring with beriberi, a cocktail of dandelions is very good. A handful of young leaves should be rinsed, soaked in salted cold water for 30 min. to remove bitterness, then squeeze, chop with a knife, pour) a glass of yogurt, stir well and add a little cumin and ground black pepper for taste. If you drink this cocktail during
2 weeks, there will be no trace of vitamin deficiency.
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Dandelion is really useful. First of all, its leaves have healing properties, they help with atherosclerosis, hypertension, anemia, joint diseases. Its roots are rich in inulin and sugar, they also contain malic acid and provitamin A. Prepare and dry dandelion
it should be in autumn or early spring. Infusion of the roots can be used in diseases of the liver and gallbladder. And yet this infusion has: antipyretic and diaphoretic actions, it helps with furunculosis and acne.
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Dandelion: roots on the table!
It would seem that the weed is a weed. But no, it's not so simple! And "tops", and "roots" of a dandelion are simply stuffed with healthy substances. And the root was even nicknamed Russian ginseng. Tinctures and decoctions on its basis have a choleretic, diuretic and anti-inflammatory effect, relieve pain and spasms, and soothe the nervous system.
They dig up roots either in the spring before flowering, or in the fall from the end of September. Then they need to be washed, remove all small roots, cut into slices and dry, spread out on paper in a well-ventilated room (you can also in the oven at 40 * C, but not higher). By the way, from the dried roots of dandelion, you can make a sedative ... "coffee". To do this, they should be fried until brown, chopped in a coffee grinder and cook for 3-5 minutes with the expectation of I teaspoon per cup. Such a drink helps with insomnia.
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Dandelion, which many gardeners consider a malicious weed, is a whole pharmacy for the prevention and treatment of a variety of diseases. It is used to strengthen bones, since it contains a lot of calcium, in the treatment of anemia, since it contains iron, etc.
Dandelion is also indispensable in cosmetology. It has long been known about its miraculous effect on the skin - it perfectly evens complexion, removes age spots and freckles. You do not need to run to the pharmacy for infusions, creams and tonics from dandelion. All this can be prepared independently. • Dandelion roots will be required to prepare the tonic. They need to be washed
and pour water (it must completely cover the roots). Boil 5 min. and strain through gauze. After that, cool and, adding a few drops of lavender oil, wipe this broth in the morning and evening.
• To make a face mask, a bundle of leaves (10-15 pcs.) Must be cut very finely and add 1,5 st. l. low-fat cottage cheese. Apply mixture on face for 10-15 min. If the skin is oily, instead of cottage cheese you can take egg whites.
• For 20 cream of dandelion leaves, chop and pour boiling vegetable oil. Mix. Use after 15 days.
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Dandelion is a very useful plant with anti-inflammatory, restorative, diaphoretic, antipyretic effect, it even improves appetite. For the treatment of atherosclerosis, wine from dandelions and burdock is useful. For its preparation, the roots of dandelion and burdock are crushed and poured with boiling water (2 spoonfuls of the mixture per 3 glass of water). This mixture must be infused overnight. In the morning it should be boiled and allowed to cool. Take this wine on 0,5 glass 5 once a day. For the treatment of liver diseases, jam from dandelions is useful. The flowers are cooked in sugar until a thick consistency is formed. In the cooled jam add honey (2 spoons on 0,5 l jam).
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In diseases of the liver and gallbladder, you can take such a useful tool. For its preparation, dandelion root (30 g) soak overnight in 300 ml of water. In the morning, bring the tincture to a boil and keep it on a small fire for about 7 minutes. The broth should be taken during the day on 1 st. spoon 5 times.
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Dandelion as a vegetable
I heard that you can cook a lot of dandelion. But this "vegetable" in each cottage is a lot.
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We have already said more than once that cooking is not our profile, we only touch casually! Therefore it is very short.
First of all - young leaves, fresh in salads, cooked and stewed - as a component of soups and a full seasoning for fish and meat.
To remove bitterness, large-sliced leaves are kept for at least half an hour in a strong solution of the sop, and then rinsed. Roots for this 10 minutes are boiled in salted water. Then they are dried and fried, and completely dried serve as raw material for surrogate coffee (not bad for taste!).
Buds of a dandelion pickle, it turns out something like a kind of capers, from the opened flowers cook jam or squeeze out juice from them and ferment them on wine.
Dandelion is much more than rich, but collects a lot of harmful substances in the city, along roads and near dumps - keep in mind! In general, it is very useful for many problems of the gastrointestinal tract, liver. And healthy - just delicious!
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What is a dandelion honey, everyone knows, probably. I keep it ready for the winter. But once I thought: why only dandelions? There are so many other flowering and no less useful plants around.
I cook honey from lingonberry and strawberry flowers, rosehip buds, willow-tea flowers, Kuril tea, white and red clover (white cleanses the blood and boosts immunity, and red - an antitumor agent), cucumbers and zucchini hollow (and why not? ), and, of course, from dandelions.
The recipe for all types of raw materials is one: a liter jar of flowers, not ramming, pour 1 l of cold water for 2 hours. Then I bring everything to the boil and cook 10 min.
When the mixture has cooled to room temperature, squeeze, strain and add 1 kg of sugar. I cook on slow heat for another 30 min., At the very end I add juice of half-lemon. I poured into a sterile container and corked. Of course, there is practically no vitamins in such "honey", but there are a lot of other useful substances! A liter bottle of our family of three people is enough for a month.
By the way, I do not cook honey from the flowers of the sweet clover, as it is toxic in large quantities, and the risk of overdose is high.