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Other names: Wet-the-bed, dindle, blow-ball, cankerwort, doon-head-clock, fortune-teller, horse govan, irish daisy, milk witch, lion's tooth
Flower colour: Yellow
Flowering: Mainly April - November
Height: 5 - 40 cm
Active ingredients: Taraxin, phytosterols, fatty acids, inulin, suggars, flavonoids, fenolic acids, minerals
Used parts: Mostly the roots, but also the leaves harvested before the plant is flowering.
Dandelions were used in the Ancient Chinese and Arabic medicine, in the seventh century and the tenth to eleventh century. Curiously, the plant has not been mentioned since that time untill the very late fifteenth century. The first after that period was in 1485. So, let us return to the Chinese uses of the Dandelions. They used the leaves of the plant against urinary tract disorders and they used the root against liver issues. In the middle ages there are still not really much uses of the plant to be found, though it was actually used a bit. Matthiolus used it primarily against jaundice and the latex of dandelions was sometimes used against warts. During the Second World War, dandelion leaves were used as food and maybe even a bit earlier poor people used the roots to create something a bit like coffee, because they could not afford the real thing. The dandelion has hundreds of subspecies and there are people who make it their goal to identify all of them.
Sometimes Dandelions are still used. It can be used against hepatitis, liver insufficiency and arthritis.
Sometimes there can be light stomach complaints.
Overdose can cause diarrhoea.
If you are allergic to other plants of the Asteraceae family, you could be allergic for Dandelion too.
Contact with the latex of the plant can sometimes cause irritation of the skin.
Do NOT use Dandelions if you have gallstones, diabetes, oedema or heart or kidney disease.
Do NOT use this plant if the intestine or bile ducts are obstructed.
Do NOT use Taraxacum Officinale if you have heartburn or ulcers.
Do NOT use Dandelions if you use oral huypoglycemic medicines.
Do NOT use this plant if you use corticoids.
Do NOT use this plant if you use certain antibiotics.
Do NOT use Taraxacum Officinale if you use antihypertensives.
If you use potassium supplements, do NOT use this plant.
This plant can influence the absorption of bivalent minerals. Hence, do not use nutritional supplements at the same time as Dandelions.