Every year the gardens and the meadow turns into a beautiful yellow color. The Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) it’s a widely known flower. It is great for making flower crowning, how much fun is to blow the seeds and how hard is to get rid of it from our garden. Maybe some people know that it’s a herb, but not to many of them care about this fact.
A few years ago, i started to pay more attention to this plant. It’s all started with a book, that used to be my great-grandmother’s. It’s Maria Treben: Health from God’s garden. Altough I’m not religious, I strongly belive in the power of nature.
This little, but powerful plant, has so many beneficial effects.
- Liver disease
- Diabetes
- Psoriasis
- Pimples
- Gastric cleansing
- Tiredness
- Rheumatism
- Etc.
It blooms from April to May. All parts of the plant is edable and healty. You can eat it in a salad, you can make syrup from it and you can make tea from it. I tried all of these ways. I ate it raw, and for my taste it wasn’t delicious, I made syrup, wich was great and perfect for my tea, I made tea from it, after i picked and washed some, but i wasn’t too brave i blended it with other tea, and as you can see from the pictures i dried it’s leaves, flowers and roots, and put them in glass jars for later use.
And to end it, here is a story why the common dandelion looks like this:
It is said that once a fairy asked all the flowers, how they want to look like. The common dandelion was the only one who couldn’t answer, so it got a day to think about it. The next they the dandelion said: I want to look like the sun, the moon and the stars on the sky. that is why the flower is round and yellow, when it bloomed it is a silver ball and when you blow it, the little seeds are like stars in the sky.
Before using it for any problem, do your research on it! Too much or the wrong way of using it could cause problems. I’m not a doctor, nor a therapist.
My Choice 