Taraxacum mongolicum HandMazz

Dandelion Perennial plant. Root paniculate, surface Brown, wrinkled, leaf margin sometimes undulate-toothed or pinnately parted, base attenuate into Petiole, petiole and main vein often reddish purple, upper part of flower purplish red, densely covered with spider-like white villous; head, involucre campanulate, achenes Dark Brown, long-crested hairs white, flowering and fruiting 4-10 months. Dandelion alias Taraxacum, Granny Ding, Hua Hua Lang and so on. COMPOSITAE perennial plant. The Flower head, the seed has the white crest hair knot pompon, after the flower floats to the new place to breed the new life with the wind.

Perennial plant. Roots slightly conical, curved, 4 ~ 10 cm long, Brown surface, wrinkled, root head with Brown or yellow-white hair. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4-20 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, apex obtuse or sharply pointed, margin sometimes undulate-toothed or pinnately parted, sometimes recurved to Pinnatifid or capitate-pinnately parted, apical lobes larger, triangular or triangular-hastate, entire or dentate, 3 to 5 lobes per side, lobes triangular or triangular-lanceolate, usually dentate, spreading or obliquely, lobes often sandwiched with small teeth, base attenuate into Petiole, petiole and main vein often reddish purple, sparsely arachnoid white pilose or scarcely glabrous. Scape 1 to several, as long as or slightly longer than leaves, 10-25 cm tall, upper purplish red, densely covered with spider-like white villous hairs; head diameter Ca. 30-40 mm; involucre campanulate, 12-14 mm long, Pale Green; involucre 2-3 layers, outer involucral Bracts ovate-lanceolate or Lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, margin broadly membranous, base Pale Green, upper purplish red, apex thickened or with small to medium angular protuberances; inner involucral Bracts linear-lanceolate, 10-16 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, APEX purplish red, with corniculate protuberances; ligulate flower yellow, tongue slice Ca. 8 mm long, Ca. 1.5 mm wide, margin flower tongue abaxially with purplish red stripes, anthers and stigma dark green. Achene obovate-lanceolate, dark brown, ca. 4-5 mm long, Ca. 1-1.5 mm wide, upper part with small spines, lower part with rows of small warts, tip gradually contracted to Ca. 1 mm long cone to cylindrical beak base, beak length 6-10 mm, slender; Crested White, Ca. 6 mm. Flowering from 4 to 9 months, fruiting from 5 to 10 months.

Dandelion is a kind of plant medicine, in traditional Chinese medicine has the laudatory name of natural antibiotics, is also a traditional medicine and food homologous dual-use plant. Dandelion has a variety of components, such as Dandelion bitter element, Dandelion sterols and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Dandelion has a bitter cold taste. For the liver and stomach have a role, it has Qingrejiedu, diuretic detumescence good role. Commonly used to treat some like Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, tracheitis, especially people more headache, such as gingival swelling and pain, very difficult to treat this disease, use it to treat. Or it can be used to treat folliculitis, pneumonia, conjunctivitis, etc. . The main treatment is to mash after oral juice, mashed dregs for external application, treatment of some skin inflammation, especially mastitis. Of course, it for some of the urinary tract infection, as well as prostate hyperplasia also has a certain role. However, it should be noted that because it is a cold plant, so the dosage, especially in the internal administration of the need to control the dose of the problem, otherwise it will lead to intestinal function damage, the state of thinning of the stool. Of course, Dandelion it is a drug, but also a food, in peacetime can be used to do some dishes, soup food dandelion, to the spring and autumn, it can be used as a salad, or can also do some food stuffing.