Dandelion salad - classic and very tasty recipes. Dandelion salad - delicious and healthy snack recipes for every day How to remove bitterness from dandelions

Tatyana Lyamzina, radio presenter:

I had a story when I lay in a cast for a long time, fell into depression, and gained excess weight. Everything was not nice, I didn’t want to go to the mirror.

And then I thought that I should go to the country and gain some strength, some spring emotions. I just came across an article in a magazine that talked about cleansing the body with the help of dandelions.

1. The first two weeks need to be used flowers, just the very yellow ones that delight us all. Pick them up, dry them a little so that they wilt. Then we take 2 tbsp. flowers and fill them with boiling water (half a liter). We let it brew for about forty minutes, then we filter it all and drink 100 grams an hour before meals.

A little bitter, but it's useful. Bitterness is both choleretic, diuretic, and laxative - just what you need to cleanse the body.

2. Second recipe - used leaves dandelion. First, we wash them and soak them for half an hour in salted water so that they are not so bitter. And then we chop them with a knife and fill them with kefir. A little cumin, pepper for taste and stimulation. We get both a vitamin cocktail and a choleretic agent.

In two weeks, I felt that I was finally starting to come to life.

Gennady Malakhov:

I know a similar salad, but it will be even tastier.

We take dandelion leaves, cut them. But we also rub a bright red apple on a coarse grater. Add some honey, vegetable oil. And spices to taste.

Taisiya Kobeleva:

I have been drinking dandelion for twenty years.

And before that, my liver hurt. The doctors diagnosed him with cholecystitis. They forbade me to eat salty, fried, fatty, smoked - everything that I then loved.

And I went to the village to my grandmother, who lived for 85 years. And she drank dandelion juice. And of course she recommended him to me.

It was spring, we collected dandelions, and we took them whole - along with flowers, leaves, stems, roots. Washed, dried and squeezed juice out of them. Mixed juice with sugar one by one. For preservation, one tenth of vodka was added.

This syrup can stand up to three years. Stored in the refrigerator.

It's ready in two weeks. You need to take syrup 2-4 tbsp. in a day. And, preferably, the first spoon on an empty stomach, and the rest - before meals during the day.

Very tasty, very fragrant and very healthy. We can say that it is the "elixir of life". He helped me cope with cholecystitis.

Gennady Malakhov:

Dandelion juice is used as the most biologically active substance to cleanse the liver, to normalize its function, to normalize bile formation. And due to this, liver cells are restored.

Natalya Kovaleva, phytotherapist:

Dandelion practically has no contraindications.

There are only two contraindications: individual intolerance and a tendency to diarrhea.

Dandelion can be given at any age. It really is the elixir of life. It has a powerful positive effect on the liver. And the liver is directly responsible for the state of the kidneys, heart, brain, lymphatic system, hormonal system.

The use of dandelion prevents the development of the following diseases:

• atherosclerosis,
• hypertonic disease,
• diseases of the liver, gallbladder,
• metabolic disease,
• obesity,
• skin diseases.

In addition, dandelion juice has a very powerful antitumor effect. That is, it is universal as well as wild rose.

I will also tell you about a good dandelion recipe. It is called the "elixir of longevity".

To do this, we collect only flowers, pluck them and immediately put them in a jar. Why? Because dandelion pollen contains a huge amount of vitamins. Such as C, E, A, B vitamins and many other useful substances.

We lay the flowers in layers of 3-4 cm and pour a layer of sugar in 1 cm. Fill the jar up to half and tamp it down. And so we continue until we fill the jar to the brim. We close it with a lid. All.

In addition to the fact that this recipe has a multivitamin tonic effect, it also has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, wound healing, immunoregulatory, diuretic effects. It is very good to use it for various hepatic, intestinal and renal colic.

Reception:

• Add a teaspoon to tea or water.
• We just breed and drink to health.

Julia Aksyonova:

At one time, dandelion oil helped me a lot to treat burns. There is such a famous "healing recipe". It also helps in the treatment of abrasions, cuts.

Dandelion oil:

For 200 gr. unrefined sunflower oil, take ten dandelion flowers. Cut half of an onion head. Boil this for ten minutes over low heat. Leave overnight. And in the morning strain through several layers of gauze.

Everything, dandelion oil is ready. Keep refrigerated.

This oil is also good for hemorrhoids.

Valentina Kutlubaeva:

I have a recipe for oil already from dandelion leaves and also in vegetable oil. They can heal burns in 24 hours.

For cooking, you need to take only the leaves. They do not need to be washed, but simply wiped with a clean cloth. Therefore, the lowest part of the leaves, which is always dirty, needs to be cut off.

Next, cut the prepared dandelion leaves and pour unrefined sunflower oil. The leaves must be completely covered with oil, otherwise the prominent leaves will turn black. To prevent this, I press them on top with currant sprigs, laying a cross on a cross.

Under no circumstances should the lid be closed.

We put the jar on a plate so that the oil rising from heating does not smear your window sill.

Place in the lightest spot where you get the most sun. Put a note next to it stating when you made the butter.

After two weeks, take and filter through 2-3 layers of gauze. Be sure to drain into a dark container and close tightly.

Store in a cool place. Shelf-life Unlimited.

When treating a burn, smear it every hour. Significant relief occurs within 24 hours.

Gennady Malakhov:

I think we need dandelion oil all the time. It turns out that the same oil can be used internally. One tablespoon of oil can be consumed before meals and it will improve digestion.

This oil can be moistened with a cloth and applied to the affected areas of the skin of the body for those who suffer from some skin diseases, in particular eczema.

Tatyana Lvovna Larina, dermatologist:

With severe burns of 3-4 degrees, this oil will no longer help. If this is a 1-2 degree burn, then dandelion oil really promotes healing very well. The fact is that dandelions, namely the leaves, contain a lot of biologically active substances, minerals, microelements.

As for dandelion flowers, you need to be very careful with them, because allergic reactions often occur on them.

Rimma Nozdreva:

I suffered so much hypertension, the pressure rose to 200. My doctor said: "Try dandelion." And I obeyed.

The recipe is:

• We take three tablespoons of calendula,
• Two tablespoons of dandelion root
• Rosehip - if ground, then 5 tablespoons, and if whole fruits, then more.
• Liter of hot water.

This broth insist in a thermos. After an hour, you can already take it. Add honey.

When I feel bad, I make this infusion and start taking half a glass before meals. The tone is restored, the pressure becomes 120 to 80.

Nadezhda Nozdreva:

Dig up dandelion roots. We dry them in the oven until brown, so that they become hard and brittle. Roast them lightly for a savory, coffee-like flavor. Next, grind the roots into powder. Pour a spoonful of the resulting powder with boiling water and let it brew.

If everything is done correctly, the resulting drink will be very similar in color to coffee. And it tastes like chicory.

And with this infusion you can wean yourself from the habit of drinking coffee. At the same time, it also has a healing effect.

In addition to being an amazing medicine, dandelion can also be poisonous.

Elena Malankina, candidate of biological sciences:

Like all plants, dandelion is also prone to the accumulation of certain trace elements.
And when it grows in a meadow, in nature, in clean soil, the amount of these trace elements is very, very small.

But when it grows in the city next to industrial enterprises, next to the exhaust gases of cars, then, accordingly, the dandelion begins to accumulate lead, zinc, and copper. Can you imagine, if you take lead for six months, then such treatment will not benefit, but harm!

In order for dandelion to bring only benefits, it must be collected at least 30-40 km from large cities, from large enterprises and no closer than 200 m from major highways.

Dandelion Salad:

Finely cut dandelions, sorrel, nettles and everything that grows in your garden. Add a hard-boiled egg, maybe two. And we season it all with either butter or yogurt. Salad ready.

Gennady Malakhov:

More recipe: It is necessary to take 200 gr. dandelion flowers, pour them one and a half liters of boiling water. Insist for a day and then strain. Then add one and a half kg of sugar and make jam. And add another lemon. It turns out dandelion honey.

Irina Ortman, singer:

As a teenager, when spring came, I got freckles. I loved to sunbathe, and spent the whole summer in the village with my grandmother. She, seeing my worries about freckles, said that lotion could be made from dandelions.

Dandelion lotion: One by one, pour dandelion flowers with vodka and insist 21 days. Then we filter and dilute with water so as not to burn the skin.

From the TV program "Malakhov +"

Dandelion leaves contain 85.5% water, 2-2.8% nitrogenous substances (including proteins), 0.6-0.7% fat, some fiber, mineral salts, vitamins, bitterness. It is not worth getting rid of bitterness completely - it is precisely this bitterness that dandelion owes its medicinal effect. The secret lies in the fact that only those leaves that have rounded rather than jagged edges are suitable for eating - it is better to collect them in thick grass and in the shade.
Processing dandelion leaves - remove the leaf blade from the dense central vein, and for tiny leaves, remove only the petiole; then lower the processed leaves into cold salty water for 20-30 minutes (so that all the bitterness is gone).
The buds are pickled in vinegar and used as such in salads and soups instead of capers. However, small, still dense buds inside can be eaten raw. From them, as well as from the leaves, you can cook soup, make a side dish, salads.
Beverages are prepared from inflorescences - from delicious syrup to wine.
Dandelion roots can be simply fried like potatoes. When heated, the bitterness disappears, the roots become sweetish. If the roots roasted without oil are slightly overcooked, until brown, you get a good and nutritious coffee substitute.
There are several ways to get rid of an unpleasant aftertaste:
1. Bleach - time-consuming, but effective. Dandelion leaves grown in the dark are devoid of green color and bitterness. For bleaching, it is enough to cover the growing socket with something impenetrable to light - a board, a box, a black film, in the end - an empty tin from under canned food. After a few days, the leaves under cover will turn white and stretch out a lot. Such bleached leaves retain brittleness and elasticity, more pleasant in a salad.
2. Scald with boiling water. The leaf will darken and soften, and at the same time lose some of the vitamins.
3. Soak in salt water. How long to keep dandelions in brine, decide for yourself to taste, but the finer they are cut, the faster the bitterness disappears. Usually 20 minutes is enough to get slightly bitter leaves that taste like a regular salad.

Dandelion wine 1
Ingredients: dandelion flowers 3 kg, raisins 100 g, sugar 1.25 kg, orange 1 pc., lemon 1 pc., wine yeast 3-5 g, boiled water 3 l.
Separate the flowers from the receptacle (whole flowers can also be used) and brew them with boiling water (about 1 liter). Infuse for 2-3 days, no more, so as not to turn sour. Drain the dark brown infusion, squeezing the flowers. Pour in the heated remaining water, after dissolving sugar in it and adding orange and lemon juice, raisins and yeast.
Wine yeast can be replaced with ordinary (3-5 g), but not dry from a bag. In principle, you can do without orange and lemon. Cover the dishes with gauze and leave to ferment for two days. Then, using a siphon (so that sediment does not get in), pour the wine into a large bottle, without adding about a quarter of the volume to the edge, and close it with a fermentation cork (cotton wrapped in gauze or a thin rubber glove).
After the end of fermentation, carefully bottle the wine and let it mature for 3-6 months. Wine is about 3 liters.
Dandelion wine 2
Pour 1 kg of flowers with 5 liters of boiling water. Let stand for a day. Add juice and peel of 2 lemons and 1 orange, 0.5 kg of sugar per 1 kg of flowers. Cook for 20 minutes. Strain through a colander. Add ammonium phosphate and wine yeast, leave to ferment.
Dandelion wine 3
Ingredients: dandelion flowers 1 kg, lemon 2 pcs., sugar 0.5 kg, raisins 1 tbsp. spoon, water (boiling water) 3 l.
Collect flowers, clean them from green leaves. Brew with boiling water and leave for 3 days. Strain the infusion, squeeze the lemons, add sugar and raisins. Close the dishes with gauze and put for fermentation.
After the primary fermentation, pour into a large bottle along with raisins and put a rubber glove with a small hole in the finger on the neck. When fermentation stops, separate the sediment and add sugar to taste. Pour into bottles, close tightly and put in a cool dark place for four months.
Dandelion leaf salad
Squeeze the soaked dandelion leaves, finely chop. Add any greens (lettuce, dill, onion and garlic feathers, etc.) and vegetables (fresh or pickled cucumber, radish, etc.), potatoes and a boiled egg. Mix everything, season with mayonnaise and add salt.
Dandelion paste
Grind the soaked leaves with a blender, add grated cheese, add ketchup. For spiciness, you can add pickled cucumber or hot pepper (to taste).
Dandelion flower jelly
200 g of dandelion flowers, 100 g of lemon or orange finely chopped with peel (without seeds that give bitterness) are placed in an enameled pan, 0.5 l of water is poured. Bring to a boil, add 500 g of fructose or 800 g of sugar, and then simmer for an hour and a half over low heat with the lid open. Then it is poured into jars, cooled (until jelly is formed) and closed with a plastic lid. The product can be stored for a long time in a dark, cool place.
Dandelion honey
Ingredients: dandelion flowers - 300 pcs., 1-2 lemons, 1.5 kg of sugar in 2 cups of water.
Separate the petals from the stalks, put them in boiling syrup (sugar and water). Add grated lemon, mix, cook over low heat for 30 minutes. Let it brew for 12 hours, boil again for 15 minutes. Strain the resulting honey through cheesecloth. Squeeze out the flowers and discard. Cool the mass and pour into jars. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.
Jam "seven minutes"
Ingredients: dandelion (flowers) - 360 pieces, water (cold) - 2 cups, sugar - 7 cups.
Rinse about 360 May dandelion flowers with sepals, but without a stem, pour two glasses of cold water and boil for 2 minutes from the moment of boiling. Put cheesecloth in 4 layers on a colander, put dandelions on it and squeeze them thoroughly. Pour 7 cups of sugar into the squeezed water, put on fire and, with continuous stirring, bring the sugar to complete dissolution. Boil the syrup for 7 minutes, counting from the beginning of boiling. The jam is ready.

Dandelion leaf salad is considered a healthy food for people who suffer from the following diseases:

1. Vascular diseases. Dandelion juice effectively cleanses blood vessels from atherosclerotic plaques, improves blood properties.
2. Pathology of the liver or kidneys. This product removes toxins, eliminates puffiness and has a restorative effect.
3. Osteochondrosis, sciatica, arthritis. Natural antibiotic and antioxidants provide restoration of damaged joint tissue.
4. Anemia and avitaminosis. The beneficial substances that make up the medicinal plant increase the defenses of the immune system.
5. Diabetes mellitus and other endocrine diseases. With frequent use of dandelion salad, carbohydrate content is regulated.
6. Skin lesions. The tool helps to eliminate rashes as a result of an allergic reaction, boils and warts.

In addition, with the daily intake of such a drug, the reproduction and growth of pathogenic microorganisms is reduced. It is also recommended to eat this salad with helminthiasis.

Due to its composition, dandelion increases the production of mother's milk, so it is advised to use it during breastfeeding.

Dandelion salad is an effective tool for the prevention of cancer and diabetes. It is also recommended for people who wish to lose weight.

A contraindication to the use of the plant is individual intolerance and gastritis, stomach or duodenal ulcer. In addition, the plant is not allowed to be used by patients with gallstone disease.

How to make dandelion salad

There are a large number of recipes from the roots, leaves and flowers of the plant. Salad can be prepared with the addition of other medicinal herbs (parsley, dill, nettle), with fruits and vegetables, cheese and cottage cheese, as well as boiled meat. In any case, such a dish will be not only healthy, but also very tasty.

It is desirable to fill the salad with sour cream, honey, lemon juice or unrefined oil. The combination of dandelions with these ingredients promotes better absorption of nutrients.

Dandelion salad recipe "Vitamin"

This dietary salad improves metabolic processes and strengthens the immune system. It is made from the leaves of the plant. Calorie content is no more than 50 calories per 100 grams of food.

For cooking, take the following products:

• 100 g of dandelions (leaves);
• a bunch of onions;
• 1-2 ;
• celery (to taste);
• spices (optional)

Step by step preparation:

When the leaves of the plant are young, soaking is not required, as there is no bitterness in them.

You can add wine vinegar, mustard or honey to this dish for a better taste. A delicious salad will be if you grind sunflower seeds, crackers or almonds into it.

Salad with nettles and dandelions

Dandelion and nettle salad is considered a healthy snack for people who suffer from various diseases. For him, you need to prepare such products:

• 0.5 kg of nettle;
• 200 g of sorrel;
• 20 g dandelion (flowers and leaves);
• 30 g plantain leaves;
• 20 g green onions;
• half an egg;
• 10 g of radish;
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• spices.

To prepare this salad you need:

1. Grind all greens with a meat grinder.
2. Add the chopped egg to the resulting mass.
3. Fill the salad with vegetable oil and put it in a bowl in a dish.
4. It is recommended to decorate the dish with radish circles.

Such a salad is considered tasty and nutritious. It is recommended to use it for any diseases associated with a weakened immune system.

The best time to make this salad is spring. At this time, the ingredients are more juicy and nutritious.

To prepare a salad in French, you need to add a little sugar, chopped loaf slices and other medicinal herbs infused with vinegar.

Chinese salad

Chinese Dandelion Salad is a nutritious snack for people who lead a healthy lifestyle.

To prepare it, you need the following products:

• 0.5 kg of dandelion (leaves);
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• any vegetable oil.

Step by step cooking instructions:

You should use a plant that grew away from the road and industrial plants. It is recommended to collect leaves in sunny and dry weather.

Dandelion is a medicinal plant that is used to make wine, jam and other dishes. The most useful is the salad, which can be prepared in various ways. In any case, such an appetizer is useful and widely used in traditional medicine for the treatment and prevention of many diseases.

The beneficial properties of dandelion include the ability of this bright flower to remove toxins from our body, prevent diabetes, obesity, destroy gallstones, clean the ducts, stimulate the activity of the cardiovascular system, treat gastritis and beriberi. The latter is so characteristic of all of us in the spring.

Dandelion includes such a variety of useful properties that you begin to understand why it is called a life elixir: it is a laxative choleretic property, and it cleanses the body, expectorant, blood-purifying ...

They help lower blood cholesterol levels, and dandelion leaves and roots are used as an anti-sclerotic agent.

What confuses in the use of dandelion is its bitterness, but we will learn how to remove it!

Dandelion bitterness improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, promotes faster and better digestion of food, improves metabolism. The result is more strength and energy.

Dandelion cleanses the kidneys, is a diuretic, but unlike medicines, it does not remove potassium, which makes its use even more valuable.

It has an excellent effect on the nervous system: it tones, soothes, uplifts the mood, increases the overall tone..

Perhaps you can’t describe all the beneficial properties of dandelion, but what you have already learned will most likely be enough to “respect” this malicious weed for summer residents and an excellent solar healer for everyone who cares about their health without resorting to dangerous chemicals. medicines.
How to remove bitterness from dandelion.

There are several ways:

1. We direct a strong saline solution and hold a dandelion there for 20 minutes. The bitterness goes away, only a slightly bitter taste, similar to the taste of lettuce leaves, remains.

2. The main bitterness is contained in the green bract: just remove it.

3. Dandelion roots are used to make a coffee substitute. In a frying pan, the roots are fried without oil until brownish-golden. Bitterness disappears when heated. Then they grind it in a coffee grinder. A great healthy drink is ready!

The roots are also fried in oil, like fried potatoes.

Dandelion recipes.

Dandelion jam for the treatment and prevention of liver diseases.

We tear off 300-400 pieces of yellow dandelion inflorescences. Fill with water and let stand overnight.

Add 1 kg of sugar, 1-2 finely chopped lemons (possible with the peel), 1 teaspoon of citric acid and cook for another 5 minutes.

Remove from heat as soon as the jam becomes similar in color to honey.

Cool, filter through gauze or a fine sieve and boil the resulting mass for 1-2 minutes. We chill again. Dandelion jam goto.

We apply preferably on an empty stomach, in the morning, dissolving in a glass of green tea or milk thistle.

Milk thistle with dandelion will cleanse the liver of toxins and harmful substances, act as an anti-inflammatory and choleretic agent.

It is also an excellent remedy for the prevention of bronchitis and asthma.

Eat at least 2 tablespoons. Your liver will be clean and healthy.

Dandelion salad.

50 g of crushed young dandelion leaves, 5 g of vegetable oil, a little lemon juice.

Leaves are not soaked. Serve immediately after preparation.

Revitalizing dandelion tea.

Collect young dandelions at the beginning of flowering. Use the entire above ground part of the flower. Dry it. Useful brew is ready.

1 tbsp to 1 cup boiling water. We insist 1 hour. We filter.

We drink 20-30 ml 2 or 3 times a day half an hour before meals.

We use tea for no more than 2 weeks.

Winter vitamin dressing "Solar energy."

Dandelion flowers should be almost open.

We put them in a glass jar, pouring sugar in a 1: 2 ratio in layers. We put in the refrigerator.

The resulting syrup is taken 1-2 teaspoons 30 minutes before meals.

This is not all, but the main beneficial properties of a beautiful plant called "dandelion". We use, thank nature, become healthy and happy)

Be always healthy and happy!

Consult your doctor before use!

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Dandelion - ELIXIR OF LIFE AND WHAT A MEDICINE!!! Dandelion - the elixir of life Dandelion officinalis. The leaves, flowers and roots of the dandelion have absorbed all the forces of nature! The little yellow healer - dandelion contains a gold reserve of the most useful elements of the periodic table. Medicinal dandelion is an unpretentious plant, but containing a good half of the chemical elements of the periodic table. Sodium, potassium, manganese, magnesium, aluminum, iron, copper, calcium, as well as vitamins A, C, F and group B. Dandelion has long been assigned the status of an "elixir of life", which has an analgesic, choleretic, diuretic, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory and tonic actions. In France, it is bred on plantations. Its leaves are used in salads, flowers are used to make a wonderful medicinal jam for a hundred diseases. Wine is no less healing, flower buds are preserved and pickled, using them in salads, vinaigrettes and hodgepodges instead of capers. In autumn, the roots are dug up and the healthiest and healthiest coffee is made from them. From the whole plant (leaves, roots, flowers) produce canned juice - a wonderful medicine. Even Parisians treat their sore joints with arthritis and polyarthritis very simply and effectively - as soon as dandelions bloom, they look for their yellow flowers in flowerbeds and parks, pick 10 pieces and carefully, chew them for a long time into a pulp, and then swallow. Those who have these diseases in a chronic form - they dry the flowers for the winter. And then steamed with boiling water and eat 1 tbsp. per day in the morning on an empty stomach. Those who have vasoconstriction or coronary heart disease do not eat flowers, but raw flower stems - from 5 to 10 pieces in the morning on an empty stomach 2 hours before breakfast, chewing thoroughly. In general, the best, simplest and most affordable remedy for purifying blood and lymph, for increasing hemoglobin is our native dandelion. The medicine, which is always underfoot, is also unusually effective for increased acidity of gastric juice. The Germans still use it as a sedative and hypnotic. And they are right. Dandelion has a lot of magnesium - that's why it heals nerves, heart and blood diseases so well. Dandelion leaves are high in phosphorus, more than other leafy vegetables. And phosphorus is healthy, strong teeth. In the spring, salads are made from the leaves, which treat the liver, as well as cholelithiasis, gastritis, beriberi, anemia, skin diseases, improve appetite and digestion. For those who use them daily and regularly, the complexion improves, a healthy glow returns and the skin is gradually cleansed, acne, pimples, boils disappear without a trace. All parts of the dandelion have healing properties - roots, leaves and flowers. Its roots contain natural substitutes for starch and sugar (as a dietary product, it is perfectly absorbed in diabetes, kidney and gallbladder diseases). Dandelion removes toxins from the body and stimulates the activity of the cardiovascular system. Raising the tone, it improves mood. Dandelions for lactating mothers For nursing mothers, dandelion juice is the most effective assistant in increasing lactation. Dandelion treats edema Even Avicenna treated heart and kidney edema with milky juice, recommended it for dropsy and venous congestion. In Russia, an old dandelion saved the northerners from scurvy and jaundice. Dandelion is rich in antioxidants that protect against diabetes and cancer. It has a beneficial effect on water-salt metabolism, accelerates recovery processes after a stroke. In folk medicine, extracts, extracts, infusions from dandelion roots are used for various diseases: the spleen, pancreas and thyroid gland, hyperacidity, inflammation of the lymph nodes, constipation, furunculosis, rashes. The solar flower prevents obesity, cirrhosis, destroys gallstones and cleans the ducts, treats the liver, gastritis, beriberi, improves appetite and digestion. Dandelion root powder heals wounds, burns, ulcers. A decoction of flowers is used for insomnia and hypertension. A large amount of magnesium heals the nerves, the heart and increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood. Chemical composition. Dandelion root contains up to 10% of the bitter substance taraxacin, triterpene compounds: taraxerol, taraxasterol, etc.; sterols: P-sitosterol and stigmasterol; flavonoids: cosmosine, luteolin-7-glucoside; up to 24% inulin, up to 3% rubber, fatty oil, etc. In France, Austria, Holland, Germany, India, Japan, and the USA, dandelions are bred on special plantations. The French use them for healing salads, jams, wine and pickling. Young leaves of the yellowish healer have almost no bitterness. They make salads and sauces. By the way, delicate pickled buds taste like capers. An exotic jam is made from the flowers, and an excellent coffee-like drink is obtained from the roots! Action and application. The bitter substances of dandelion increase appetite and improve digestion (see Watch). The ability of dandelion to remove dead cells, moisturize and make the skin supple is successfully used in cosmetology (nutritious, moisturizing, whitening and rejuvenating agents). Rubbing the milky juice of dandelion leaves into the skin, ancient beauties got rid of age spots and freckles. With daily and regular use of dandelions, the complexion improves, the skin is cleansed - acne, pimples and boils disappear without a trace. The sun generously illuminates the earth, giving life to all living things. However, not everyone generously takes this life-giving force. You can't say the same about dandelion. He is the sun itself in its power. We can say that the dandelion is the little sun on earth, both in form and in healing power. The main element of the sun is red-hot iron. By studying the spectral analysis of the composition of dandelion, scientists come to the conclusion that the same iron is present in dandelion. Figuratively speaking, it is the very red-hot iron that is so afraid of. Folk recipes The vascular system is the crossroads of all problems in the body. One of the destroyers of the vascular system is rheumatism. It is especially cruel in its manifestations in the 4th generation of patients. And here it should sound like joy - to burn out this ailment with a red-hot iron. The sun is far away, but on the other hand, we have a small sun on earth - a dandelion, which can defeat such a formidable disease as rheumatism. To get rid of it, you need a little: collect and grind dandelion flowers right there in the field, mix them with sugar in a ratio of 1: 1. Put them in an open place for one day, but not in the sun. Then place in the refrigerator for 1.5 weeks. Squeeze out the contents, strain and put back in the refrigerator. Use randomly, the more the better. It won't hurt anything, except for those who can't eat sugar. But this is an aid. The main remedy is dandelion stalks, on which a yellow flower grows, it must be eaten raw. Eat as much as the body allows, check at what amount you will feel comfortable, so that there is no discomfort, either from the gastrointestinal tract, or from the kidneys. It is best to eat the stems on the third day after the flower is thrown out, when the stems become slightly brownish and have a lot of healing juice. It is necessary to meet the season in order to get rid of the disease. Dandelion treats joint diseases, there are cases when the use of dandelion relieved those suffering from stones in the gallbladder, in the kidneys. Improving metabolism, getting rid of osteochondrosis, pain in the joints, in the neck, pain in the fingers, curvature of the fingers. To do this, you need to prepare dandelion honey. Such honey should be consumed within 2 years, but for whom how. For some, even one year helps. But imagine what a powerful healing you will carry out in the body when you put in order the main filters of the body - the liver and kidneys. And then treat the entire skeleton of the body from salt deposits. To prepare dandelion honey "from little suns" should be collected during the first mass flowering, choosing an ecologically clean place for this purpose, at least 2-3 km from busy highways, in order to avoid heavy metal salts. For 1 liter of honey, 350 dandelion flowers should be collected along with a green base in the form of a basket, but without stems. Thoroughly rinse the entire flower mass with cold water and pour 1 liter of cold water, put the container on fire, bring the mass to a boil and simmer for 1 hour with the lid closed. Then throw the flowers in a colander and when all the liquid drains, throw them away. Pour 1 kg into the resulting green broth. sugar, bring to a boil and cook again for another 1 hour over low heat. 15 minutes before the end, squeeze the juice of one lemon there. Let the liquid stand until the next morning. This completes the process of making dandelion honey. It should be taken 1 teaspoon three times a day. One person needs for a year (from dandelions to dandelions) it will take three servings of honey preparation. You can prepare a medicine for a whole year at a time, increasing the amount of the composition accordingly. Or do it in three steps, whichever is more convenient for you. Children under 19 years of age should not take dandelion honey, because until the growth of the skeleton of the body ends, and with it the formation of bones, otherwise dandelion honey can damage the young bone tissue that has not yet formed. The root is used as a decoction at the rate of 10-20 g of raw materials per 200 ml of water, 1 tablespoon before meals for anorexia of various etiologies, anacid gastritis, hepatitis and inflammation of the gallbladder, Botkin's disease. Due to the high content of inulin, it is prescribed for diabetes. The action is enhanced by the combination of dandelion root with blueberry leaves, nettle and bean leaves. For problems with the thyroid gland, you need to add a little seaweed, parsley root or greens, boiled beets and season with vegetable oil to dandelion leaves. It will be such a strong source of iodine for the body that the patient's condition will definitely improve. But the leaves are very bitter, and getting used to them is not so easy. To partially remove bitterness, fresh leaves are soaked in salt water for half an hour, and then eaten. To make it easier to get used to dandelion salads, fresh leaves can first be added to salads with other vegetables and herbs, and then used as an independent dish. Dandelion oil will protect against digestive problems. During flowering, do not forget to prepare another medicine of fantastic healing power - oil from dandelion flowers. For diseases of the liver and stones in the gallbladder, with habitual constipation, as a choleretic, and any problems with the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, colitis), it is taken orally in a tablespoon 3 times a day before meals, and if it is difficult - even during meals. Skin diseases, chronic wounds, scars, burn marks, eczema, psoriasis, erysipelas, impetigo are treated by applying linen napkins soaked in this oil to the affected areas. Cooking oil is not a complicated process, but a long one. In dry sunny weather, dandelion flowers are harvested along with flower stems. All this is ground until juice appears and laid out in glass jars, filling them halfway. Then they fill it to the top with fresh (from a churn) sunflower oil, tie the necks with gauze and take it out for the whole day in the bright sun for 3 weeks. Then filtered, squeezed and stored in a dark place at room temperature. Jam from dandelion - and the benefit of all, and overeating In goiter, diseases of the liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, with cholecystitis, gastritis, hepatitis, medicinal jam is useful. Fresh dandelion flowers without green sepals - 500 g, a glass of water, 400 g of sugar and 1 medium lemon, finely chopped with peel, but without seeds. Harvested for medicine and dandelion roots. They are dug in early spring, before flowering, and in autumn. But autumn roots differ significantly in their composition from spring ones, because by autumn the dandelion accumulates natural polysaccharides. Autumn roots contain up to 40% inulin, a natural relative of insulin, which makes them the most valuable remedy for diabetics. In case of diabetes, they use a salad of raw autumn roots and coffee from the roots, dried and roasted in a pan, and then ground into powder: 1 tsp. powder in a glass of boiling water. Or simply crushed dried roots: 2 tsp. 10 minutes boil in a glass of water. The decoction is taken orally in half a glass 2 times a day 20 minutes before meals. Dandelion roots are the strongest and most valuable part of the plant. Collected in May and pounded into mush, the roots are applied to tumors on the chest in women for their speedy resorption and to hardening on the lymph nodes under the armpits and in the groin. The same slurry is used to treat hemorrhoids and stop uterine bleeding (the slurry is wrapped in gauze and tampons are placed). Vodka tincture (2/3 cup of roots per 0.5 l of vodka or pervak ​​is kept for 2 weeks in a dark place, shaking occasionally) treats epilepsy. In this case, it is taken in a tablespoon 3 times a day before meals. Powder from crushed dry dandelion roots drink 1 tsp. 3 times a day before meals with atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels to remove cholesterol, toxins and toxins from the body. With the ability of dandelion roots to bind and remove excess cholesterol, its antitumor activity is directly related. As you know, cholesterol and proteins, as well as complex lipid compounds of blood serum, feed cancer cells. The saponins contained in dandelion roots bind this cholesterol, forming sparingly soluble compounds with it, thereby dooming cancer cells to starvation and death. And the bitter substance taraxacin stimulates the formation of protective leukocytes and activates the immune anti-cancer defense of the body. That is why eating raw dandelion roots (especially when mixed with raw, grated burdock root) stops the growth of a cancerous tumor and gradually kills it after 10 days. How to prepare and store dandelion juice. Recipe 1. For this, the whole plant, together with the root, leaves and flowers, is passed through a meat grinder, the juice is squeezed through gauze. For preservation, 100 g of alcohol or a glass of 400 vodka are added to 0.5 l of the resulting juice and poured into sterile jars. In addition to the use already described above, a healing cocktail is prepared from this juice: 2/3 cup carrot juice, 3 tbsp. dandelion juice, 1 tbsp. honey and black radish juice to the top of the glass. Drink on an empty stomach 1 time per day in the morning to improve vision, to treat diseases in the spine, osteochondrosis, osteomyelitis, ankylosing spondylitis and periodontal disease. Avicenna also treated heart and kidney edema with dandelion milky juice and reduced an eyesore. The yellow dandelion flowers contain lutein, which is necessary for the normal functioning of the eye pupil. With its deficiency, vision deteriorates and eye diseases develop. Recipe 2. Add 150 ml of vodka to 700 ml of juice. Put in a cool place. After a while, the juice will turn slightly sour, but there is no need to be afraid of this. The lactic acid formed during weak fermentation improves the quality of the juice. It has a good effect on the digestion process and inhibits putrefactive processes in the esophagus, and is also an anti-cancer agent. Roots are harvested in autumn (September-October) or early spring at the beginning of regrowth (April). Plants are dug with shovels, shake off the ground, cut off the remains of the leaves, the tip of the root, the root collar and thin lateral roots. After that, they are washed in cold water and dried in the air for several days, until the milky juice ceases to stand out from them. Then the roots are dried in attics with good ventilation or under awnings, spread out in a thin layer on paper or cloth. Can be dried in ovens or dryers at a temperature of 40-50 °C. Roots. Raw materials should consist of slightly branched roots without a root collar, 2-15 cm long, longitudinally wrinkled, sometimes twisted, brown or dark brown on the outside. Inside, at the break, yellow wood. There is no smell. The taste is sweetish-bitter with a feeling of sliminess. Dandelion can cause loose stools (mainly by increasing bile secretion). Therefore, grass and plant roots are not used for gastrointestinal disorders. It is undesirable to take dandelion preparations with severe hypotonic dyskinesia of the gallbladder, since excessive flow of bile into a bladder devoid of contractility will contribute to its stretching and intensification of pain. It is undesirable to use dandelion for allergic dermatitis. An allergic reaction can be caused by dandelion flowers and their pollen. With flu symptoms, treatment with dandelion should be discontinued. Dandelion in cosmetology Dandelion is also good as a cosmetic skin care product. To remove freckles and age spots, use this recipe: pour 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed dandelion flowers! a glass of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes and let it brew for 45 minutes. Then strain. Apply this lotion to your face morning and evening. But to get rid of warts, you need to wipe them 4-6 times a day with dandelion juice for 3-5 weeks. And here is another original recipe that helps the whole family in the winter frosty cold, when joint pain occurs. Rubbing with a tincture of dandelion flowers on a triple cologne, infused for 10-12 days, they give a persistent analgesic effect. To do this, collect flowering dandelion heads, tightly folded into a jar, pour triple cologne. They insist, you can filter, I use it without filtering. The family, using this rubbing, forgot about any healing ointments. But dandelion is not only a wonderful medicinal plant. It is widely used in cosmetology. Lotion for oily skin: due to the high content of bitterness, the infusion of leaves and flowers perfectly cleanses and disinfects the skin. Collect a handful of leaves and flowers, wash, dry, put in a half-liter jar, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and put in a dark place for a week. Strain and squeeze the raw materials, add ¼ cup of boiled or mineral water - the lotion is ready. Wipe morning and evening with a cotton swab when taking care of your skin. Mask for aging skin: mash 5-6 fresh dandelion leaves and 2-3 flowers to a pulp, add 1 teaspoon of honey and a little water so that the mass is not very viscous. Grease your face with olive or corn oil. Next, apply a mask. Wash off with warm water. Freckle Tincture: The whitening properties of dandelion are unique. Pour a large handful of dandelion flowers with a glass of boiling water. When the infusion has cooled, strain it and pour it into a bottle. Using a cotton swab, wipe the largest accumulation of freckles in the morning and evening. You can freeze this infusion into ice cubes in the freezer, wipe your face with these cubes in the morning. Eliminates freckles, as well as tones the skin, eliminates swelling. Nourishing Mask: Dandelion is great for nourishing the skin. Pour a large handful of dandelion leaves and flowers with a spoonful of warm milk and leave for 10 minutes. Add half an egg yolk for dry skin, egg white for oily skin. Apply to clean skin several times as it dries. After 20 minutes, rinse with warm water, then cold. This mask will saturate the skin with vitamins. Mask for oily skin: Finely chop 6-8 dandelion leaves, rub with a wooden spoon and mix thoroughly with 2 tablespoons of fat-free cottage cheese. Apply the mask to cleansed skin. After 15-20 minutes, rinse first with warm, then cold water.