Can dandelions cure colds?

As we all know, dandelion is not only a common wild flower on the hillside, but also a traditional Chinese medicine with great medicinal value in traditional Chinese medicine. In summer, people can drink more tea made from dandelions, because this kind of tea can clear away heat and detoxify. When a cold occurs, cold patients will look for many small folk remedies. Will dandelion have a therapeutic effect on colds?

It has a certain effect. Dandelion is cold in nature and sweet and bitter in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as carbuncle, breast abscess, red eyes, sore throat, damp-heat jaundice, etc. Dandelion contains ingredients such as taraxacin, taraxacin, and inulin, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are effective in treating colds.

Can I drink dandelion for wind-heat cold?

Can drink. Traditional Chinese medicine divides colds into wind-cold colds, wind-heat colds, summer-dampness colds and other syndromes. Wind-heat colds are external syndromes caused by the wind-heat evil, and symptoms include fever, headache, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion and yellow discharge, etc. Dandelion has the effects of detoxification, anti-inflammatory and heat clearing. It can be used for colds, fever, sore throat, etc., so it can be drunk for wind-heat colds.

Dandelion's effects and functions

Clearing away heat and detoxifying

Dandelion has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It can clear liver heat and relieve insomnia, irritability, dizziness and other symptoms caused by liver heat. Dandelion soaked in water can also be used for sore throat, toothache, mouth sores, etc.

Eliminate carbuncle and resolve nodules

Dandelion has the effects of detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and dispersing nodules. It can be used for breast carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle, etc. Dandelion treats cough, chest and flank pain caused by lung abscess. It can be combined with Platycodon, Scrophularia, Lonicera and other medicinal materials to promote lung function and detoxify.

Diuretic and diuretic

Dandelion has a diuretic effect and can expel warm and hot evil from below. Dandelion can be used together with other medicinal materials such as Artemisia capillaris, Gardenia jasminoides, etc. to treat jaundice caused by damp heat. When used with Phellodendron chinense, Plantago seed, Imperata root, etc., it can enhance the effects of clearing damp heat, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria.