Dandelion – weed, medicine, vitamins

In early spring, as soon as the first turn green grass, bloom bright yellow dandelion blossoms.

No doubt, the dandelion is a weed, and fight with him in the garden should be. But there is nothing superfluous in nature. Just do not all know how generous can bestow this plant people. So what is a dandelion?
In the botanical atlases of plant states called dandelion or common dandelion. This is a perennial plant of the family Asteraceae, with a straight, fairly thick roots. Pinnatisect leaves collected at rosette, stem not. Flower arrows are hollow, each bearing a flower basket from the ray flowers with golden-yellow corolla. The fruit – achene with a long thin beak, bearing the crest of fine white hairs. All parts of the plant contain a milky sap.
Dandelion is rich in protein, sugars, calcium, cobalt, is it different vitamins. All parts of the plant contain a milky sap. It is widely used in folk medicine as a remedy for chronic liver disease, gallstones, inflammatory processes in the kidney. (No wonder the people say about him: “Dandelion – you are my friend, help relieve the illness!), It also helps with intoxication, edema of different origin, gastritis with low acidity, with joint diseases, atherosclerosis, etc.
Dandelion relates to plants containing bitter. It is used to excite the appetite and improve digestion. By law, it is believed that all parts of the plants remove toxins from the blood, therefore, useful in various skin diseases, including in furunculosis and abscesses.
Modern science confirms that the dandelion serves inhibition of cholesterol absorption, stimulates the formation of bile. And so the plant extract is part of many medications.
It is not only a valuable medicinal plant, but also food. Of the young leaves are cooked in ancient times soups, and roots gathered in autumn after flowering or in early spring before flowering, dried and used instead of coffee. The infusion of the roots and leaves of plants – healing, delicious, popular drink. Of particular value is in the spring, when our bodies feel the lack of vitamins.
Eliminate the bitter taste of leaves soaking them in salted water for half an hour. But even without this salad of dandelion quite edible, if only to prepare his young, succulent leaves and spices. Leaves for the salad must be taken from plants that have not yet flowered and produced flower arrows. And as a condiment suit green onions, salt, vinegar and vegetable oil or mayonnaise, and eggs. With the aging of plant leaves dandelion grubeyut lose the richness and freshness, and become unfit for human consumption. But by that time arrive, and other greens.
Do not suggest to gather dandelion, for that matter, and other plants on roadsides, especially major highways, as the ground part of plants accumulate a lot of substances harmful to humans.