Can dandelion cure hyperthyroidism?

Dandelion is a relatively common Chinese medicine. It has a good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and relieving inflammation and fire. It can treat a wide range of diseases. For example, it can treat mastitis and sore throat. For hyperthyroidism, dandelion can also achieve the effect of auxiliary treatment. The main purpose of treatment is to eliminate hyperactivity of liver fire. It has a certain effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and removing fire. Of course, this is only an auxiliary treatment, and regular treatment is still needed.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, hyperthyroidism is caused by dietary preferences, long-term consumption of sweet, fatty and hot foods, accumulation of fire and phlegm, liver depression and qi stagnation, burning of liver and stomach phlegm and fire, deficiency of heart yin, and emotional discomfort. In general, patients with hyperthyroidism will have symptoms such as hyperactivity of liver fire, deficiency of heart yin, phlegm and dampness, and stagnation of qi and blood.

Home remedies

(1) Mussel and safflower soup

100 grams of mussels and 10 grams of safflower. Cook the soaked mussels, then add safflower and cook for another 20 minutes. Season and serve as a side dish. It can resolve phlegm, soften hard masses, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

(2) Curcuma salvia miltiorrhiza trehalose syrup

90 grams of turmeric, 150 grams each of salvia miltiorrhiza and seaweed. Add these materials to 1000 ml of water, boil and concentrate to 300 ml, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, store in a cool and ventilated place, take twice a day, 15 ml each time. Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, regulate Qi and eliminate hardness.

(3) Saffron flower, orange peel and seaweed soup

We add safflower, orange peel and seaweed to water and cook them together for about ten minutes, then add appropriate amount of seasoning. It has the effect of promoting qi and blood circulation, resolving phlegm and softening hard masses.

(4) Cold white and green shredded vegetables

200 grams each of kelp and white radish, 100 grams of vermicelli. First cut the kelp and white radish into shreds. Boil the kelp shreds and vermicelli together in water, then add seasonings and stir with the white radish shreds before eating. Serve with meals. Regulate Qi, resolve phlegm, and disperse nodules.

(5) Seaweed and Radish Soup

5 grams of laver, 250 grams of white radish, 1 piece of fresh orange peel, slice the white radish, cut the orange peel into shreds, cook them together for 20 minutes, add laver to season, and serve as a side dish. Soothe the liver and regulate qi, relieve depression and resolve phlegm.

Seaweed and Radish Soup

External remedies

(1) Wet compress method

30 grams each of Dioscorea bulbifera and raw rhubarb, 10 grams each of whole scorpion, silkworm, and earthworm, 15 grams of fleabane, 5 grams of alum, and 5 centipedes, grind them into powder together, mix them with half vinegar and half wine to make an ointment, and keep it moist. Each batch of medicine can be used for 3 days, and 7 days is a course of treatment.

(2) Fumigation method

Boil 60 grams of dandelion into 2 bowls of decoction, take 1 bowl while warm, and use the remaining bowl for fumigation and washing while it is hot, once a day. This prescription is used to treat worsening exophthalmos after hyperthyroidism surgery, and it is extremely effective.