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DANDELION Taraxacum Offixinale (Efo Yarin)

One cup of dandelion green contains:

• 25 calories.
• 42 milligrams of sodium.
• 218 milligrams of potassium.
• 5 grams of carbohydrates.
• 7 percent dietary fiber.
• 535 percent vitamin K.
• 111 percent vitamin A.
• 32 percent vitamin C.
• 5 percent vitamin B6.
• 10 percent calcium.
• 9 percent iron.
• 5 percent magnesium.

BENEFITS OF DANDELION

• • Protects bones: Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body and dandelions contain 10 percent of your daily value. By drinking dandelion tea or eating the greens, you can easily avoid tooth decay, muscle tension and high blood pressure and calcium deficiency.
• • High in Vitamin K: Vitamin K is an essential fat soluble vitamin that plays an important role in bone and heart health.
  In fact, vitamin K builds bones better than calcium and it helps maintain brain function and a healthy metabolism
• • Cleanses liver: The vitamins and nutrients present in dandelions help cleanse our livers and keep them working properly.
• • Fights Diabetes: Dandelion tea and juice help people with diabetes by stimulating the production of insulin form the pancreas and keeping blood sugar levels low.
  If our pancreas doesn’t produce proper amounts of insulin, it results in diabetes.
  To fight diabetes naturally, dandelion tea also helps the body remove excess sugar that’s stored in the body.
• • High in antioxidants: Antioxidants are substances that help prevent certain types of cell damage.
• • Prevent urinary tract infections: Dandelion tea can help prevent urinary tract infections, as well as bladder disorders.

ANOTHER USES OF DANDELION

• For gall bladder problems: has been combined with Veronicastrum Viriginicum, Berberis Vulgaris and Cheloneglabra.
• For gall bladder stones: a combination of one OZ dandelion root, one OZ parsley root, one OZ lemon balm, ½ OZ ginger root and ½ OZ licorice root has been gently simmered in two quarts of water down to one quart, then strained and a wineglassful taken every two hours.
• Dandelion for pain relief: Root and Leaves have been used for Arthritis, Rheumatism, chronic joint pain, swelling and gout.
• Dandelion for digestive health: Home remedies of dandelion are used for chronic hypertension and as a digestive tonic bowel inflammation. For asthma the roots have been combined with equal parts of coots foot leaves and rosemary and smoked in a pipe.
• The herb has been used for anemia (taken as tea) insomnia (warm tea taken thirty minutes before retiring). Cancer, and hypoglycemia.