Should I use roots or leaves to make dandelion tea?

I grew up in the countryside, and my favorite thing when I was a child was playing with dandelions. With a gentle blow, it flies up, dancing gracefully, like the basic skills of ballet in the sky. Nowadays, I also like to drink dandelion tea. Especially after being diagnosed with liver problems, I subconsciously started making tea with dandelion flowers. It was not until I came into contact with this work and had contact with traditional Chinese medicine that I realized that I had been drinking it wrong all along.

Dandelion flowers can be used to make tea, either with roots or with leaves, each with different effects. Dandelion roots can be used to make tea, which can protect the liver very well, promote liver detoxification, improve the function of liver cells, and have a very good effect of protecting the liver. For people with poor liver, you can choose to use the root of motherwort to make tea. The leaves of dandelion flowers are rich in nutrients and are particularly suitable for reducing the body's liver fire. They have a very good regulating effect on symptoms of getting angry. For example, patients with oral ulcers, bad breath, stomach heat, swollen and painful gums, and even breast diseases caused by anger are more suitable for drinking dandelion leaves. Dandelion leaves can also reduce blood pressure, soften blood vessels, and resist infection and sterilize. Their application range is still very wide.

Originally, dandelion tea also had to be separated into roots and leaves. If you brew it incorrectly, you’re asking for trouble!

I believe that everyone is like me. In many places, we have seen that dandelion flowers have the effect of clearing away heat and removing fire, and can also nourish the liver and improve eyesight. In daily life, there are many people like me who subconsciously use dandelion tea to protect the liver, right? I am not the only one who is wrong.

I saw an article not long ago that said a young couple drank dandelion water and the wife was hospitalized after drinking it. Later, I found out that the wife herself had a cold body, and dandelion flowers are also a cold food. Of course, drinking them would easily cause stomach discomfort. This is also a common mistake of everyone soaking dandelions in water.

Fortunately, I did not make this mistake, but the old doctor told me that people like me who use dandelion leaves to make tea to protect the liver are asking for trouble.

Dandelion leaves are high in vitamin C and minerals, and also contain a lot of iron, which makes them beneficial in protecting blood vessels and anti-oxidation. In addition, dandelion leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and removing fire, and are effective in reducing fire. Because dandelion leaves also contain a lot of chlorogenic acid, which is a substance that is beneficial for sterilization and anti-inflammation, it also makes dandelion leaves a good tea for sterilization and anti-inflammation.

It is not difficult to find that although dandelion leaves have many functions, they only do not have the effect of protecting the liver. For someone like me who has some liver problems but a relatively good gastrointestinal tract, if I often make tea with dandelion leaves, I won't have any major problems. But for people whose gastrointestinal health is not good, it is simply that their liver is not well maintained and their stomach is damaged by drinking.

If you want to protect your liver, strengthen your spleen and nourish your stomach, you still have to use the root of dandelion.

The old doctor told me that the liver-protecting effect of dandelion flowers is mainly concentrated on the roots. The content of nutrients such as vitamin D and protein in the root of dandelion is very high. This helps to relieve the liver's detoxification pressure and promote the excretion of body waste while supplementing nutrients. Because of this, to protect the liver, you still have to drink water soaked with the roots of the motherwort.

In the same way, to strengthen the spleen and stomach, you should also rely on the roots. There are many specific ingredients in the root of dandelion, which can effectively protect the gastric mucosa from damage. The more common Helicobacter pylori infection can also be treated by drinking dandelion root tea as an auxiliary treatment. If you usually have vomiting and your bowel movements are not formed, you can try making tea with the root of dandelion.