Is dandelion a dandelion?

Many people are not particularly familiar with Dandelion. In fact, Dandelion is the same as Dandelion. Speaking of dandelion, many people are more familiar with it. It is also called dandelion. It is a common wild vegetable with good therapeutic effects. Its most obvious function is clearing away heat and detoxifying. In early spring, many people like to go to the wild to dig some dandelion and take it home to eat. It has good anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, clearing heat and reducing fire effects.

Is dandelion a dandelion?

Dandelion is also known as yellow flowered dandelion. The Chinese medicinal herb Huanghuayeding is a perennial herb. The root is slightly conical, curved, 4 to 10 cm long, brown in color, wrinkled on the surface, and has brown or yellowish-white hairs on the root head. The leaves of Yellow Flowering Yewu are obovate-lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 20 cm long, 1 to 5 cm wide, with obtuse or acute tip.

The margin is sometimes wavy-toothed or pinnate-lobed, sometimes inverted pinnate-lobed or large-headed pinnate-lobed, with the apical lobe larger, triangular or triangular-halberd-shaped, entire or dentate, 3 to 5 lobes on each side, triangular or triangular-lanceolate, usually dentate, spreading or inverted, with small teeth often interspersed between the lobes, the base gradually narrowing into a petiole, the petiole and main veins often reddish-purple, sparsely covered with spider-like white pubescence or almost glabrous.

What does yellow flower gentian look like?

The scape of the yellow flowered gentian has 1 to several, which are equal to or slightly longer than the leaves, 10 to 25 cm high, purple-red on the upper part, densely covered with spider-like white long soft hairs; the head inflorescence is about 30-40 mm in diameter; the involucre is bell-shaped, 12 to 14 mm long, and light green; the involucral bracts are 2 to 3 layers, the outer involucral bracts are ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, with broad membranous edges, light green at the base, purple-red on the upper part, and thickened at the apex or with small to medium horn-like protrusions;

The inner bracts are linear-lanceolate, 10-16 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, purple-red at the tip, with small horn-like protrusions; the ligulate flowers are yellow, the ligules are about 8 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, the back of the marginal ligules have purple-red stripes, and the anthers and stigmas are dark green. The achenes of the yellow flower yedoensis are obovate-lanceolate, dark brown, about 4 to 5 mm long and 1 to 1.5 mm wide, with small thorns on the upper part and small tubercles arranged in rows on the lower part. The top gradually shrinks into a conical to cylindrical beak base about 1 mm long. The beak is 6 to 10 mm long and slender; the pappus is white and about 6 mm long. The flowering period is from April to September, and the fruiting period is from May to October.

The efficacy of Huanghuayeding

[Habitat distribution] Growing on hillside wasteland. Distributed in southern, southeastern and southwestern provinces of my country.

【Chemical composition】Contains crotonine.

[Nature and flavor] ① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "cold in nature, bitter in taste."

[Meridian] "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "enters the lung meridian."

Is the yellow flower gentian a dandelion? What does the yellow flower gentian look like?

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat, detoxifies and acts as a diuretic. Treats chronic cough, phlegm and asthma, urethritis, cystitis, carbuncle and furuncle.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 5 qian. For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat long-term cough, phlegm and asthma, with air blocked in the throat, like the sound of pulling a saw, and insomnia: 2 qian of Rhizoma Coptidis (fried with honey), 2 qian of Herba Lycoris (fried with honey). Take it as a decoction. (Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan)