Amazing flowers, which at first have a cheerful bright yellow color, and then pleasing the eye with fluffy white balls, are familiar to everyone from the very childhood. But very few people know how widespread the dandelion is in medicine - useful properties and contraindications to the plant were known to healers, both in antiquity and in the modern medical community.
Dandelion root - good and bad
The most valuable component of the dandelion in question is inulin. This substance is produced by the human body and helps to normalize the functioning of the liver. Due to the high concentration of inulin in the roots of the plant, they are successfully used to treat various hepatological diseases, are recommended as maintenance therapy for diabetes mellitus, endocrine diseases.
Also, dandelion is rich in triterpenes, proteins, rubber, resins, essential and fatty oils, amino acids, vitamins. Due to the diverse chemical composition of the root of the plant, it has the following useful properties:
- diuretic;
- antineoplastic;
- choleretic;
- expectorant;
- antipyretic;
- hypnotic;
- soothing.
The effect produced by medicinal preparations based on dandelion is used in the therapy of liver and gallbladder diseases, oncological diseases, mastopathy in women, upper respiratory tract pathologies, nervous disorders.
Despite such a wide range of beneficial effects, the root of the herb in case of incorrect application can cause strong vomiting with bile and blood impurities, diarrhea, cracks in the rectal mucosa.
Dandelion root - medicinal properties and contraindications
The above effects of taking drugs using plants can eliminate small stones and sand in the kidneys, gall bladder, clean the ducts. In addition, it was found that the regular intake of decoction from the roots of dandelion helps restore cells of the liver parenchyma after acute hepatitis, both of a viral and mechanical and infectious origin.
It should be noted that the crushed rhizomes of grass are often included in the composition of phytogens from cough, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia. Tea with the addition of this ingredient well helps to get rid of fibrous and cystic neoplasms in the mammary glands, prevents breast cancer.
Contraindications for a dandelion is not much:
- gastritis;
- a stomach ulcer and a lumen of the duodenum;
- blockage of bile ducts with large stones.
Therapeutic properties of dandelion flowers
As a rule, the leaves and flowers of the plant are used to extract fresh juice and prepare decoctions or infusions. These components are effective in such diseases:
- intoxication;
- gum disease and oral cavity;
- external skin damage, dermatological problems;
- anemia;
- joint diseases;
- pathology of the digestive system;
- warts;
- irritation due to allergic reactions;
- dandruff and seborrhea;
- decreased immunity;
- colds, flu, ARVI;
- spasms of smooth muscles of internal organs;
- pneumonia;
- persistent constipation;
- intestinal obstruction ;
- colitis.
It should be noted that the greatest benefit of dandelion flowers is when restoring the body after surgery, prolonged antibiotic treatment, weakened immunity. A huge amount of vitamins, macronutrients, proteins, amino acids and carbohydrates promotes rapid and intensive recovery of deficiency of necessary substances, increases protective forces, improves blood composition.