2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
These flowers are the harbingers of the beginning of summer and warmth. They round off a whimsical spring and bring a sunny mood. But when dandelions run into the garden, they can make you nervous. However, the benefits of them are much more than harm
As soon as the soil warms up after the snow melts and fresh grass appears, everywhere, like little sun bunnies, fluffy, yellow flowers jump out of the juicy green leaves. But for the gardener, dandelions are most often associated with a common and annoying weed. It is very difficult to get rid of them. However, before completely removing this plant from the garden, it is worth learning or remembering about the mass of useful properties of dandelions.
1. Health benefits
Dandelion is a medicinal herb that helps fight the problems of kidney and liver diseases, treats heartburn and appendicitis. The plant is completely edible: roots, flowers and leaves are used. The plant contains vitamins A, B, C, D, many minerals - iron, potassium, zinc.
The main medicinal properties of dandelions:
* Their leaves contain a lot of beta-carotene, which is good for the eyes.
* Vitamin K strengthens bones.
* Using dandelion root tea helps in the treatment of leukemia.
* Dandelion is a diuretic that helps the kidneys remove toxins, salts and excess water from the body.
* Dandelion is a wonderful antioxidant that helps to avoid premature aging, cancer and other diseases.
* Eating dandelion root and leaves helps regulate blood cholesterol levels.
* The use of plant extract enhances immunity, kills microbes.
* Dandelions have a beneficial effect on the digestive tract - fresh or dried herb makes you hungry, and dandelion roots are a mild laxative.
The effects of dandelion on the body
Dandelion is used as a choleretic, antipyretic, laxative, expectorant, sedative, antispasmodic and mild hypnotic. Ingestion of an aqueous extract of the roots and leaves of the plant has a beneficial effect on the digestive tract, increases appetite, normalizes metabolism, and helps to increase the overall tone of the body.
If a nursing mother takes dandelion infusion, she produces more milk. Biologically active substances contained in dandelion gruel reduce fermentation processes that occur during colitis.
The plant has anti-tuberculosis, antiviral, fungicidal, anthelmintic, anticarcinogenic and antidiabetic properties, therefore it is recommended for the treatment of diabetes and anemia.
Dried dandelion roots, ground into powder, remove harmful substances from the body, reducing sclerosis, gout, rheumatism. Reception of a thick decoction or plant extract enhances the secretion of the digestive gland, has a choleretic property.
3. Using dandelions at home and in the garden
Dandelions are useful flowers that can come in handy in home and garden chores
* Using dandelion as a natural dye
Dandelion flower is a natural natural dye that is in no way inferior to, and even superior to, chemical dyes that are dangerous and harmful to human health and the environment. It can be used to dye woolen fabrics.
* Use as fertilizer
Dandelions can be used to make an amazing fertilizer that will make the soil of your garden better, saturate it with nutrients. Flowers, leaves and roots of dandelions are rich in minerals and vitamins, which are essential for the cultivation of cultivated plants.
Don't compost your dandelions right away. It is better to fill at least some of them with boiling water, and after cooling, spray the infusion on the plants in the flower garden or garden beds. This will have a beneficial effect on plant growth.
* Great food for goats
If you have goats on your farm, then to get nutritious and very healthy goat milk, you need to feed the animals with a variety of herbal foods. A weed like dandelion grows in any garden. By using this plant, you can follow a balanced diet for your goats.
* Healing and delicious nectar for bees
Do not remove all the dandelions from the garden - leave some flowers for the bees who drink their nectar, as a result of which you get a tasty and healthy dandelion honey.
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