Healing with dandelion is fun and simple.
Dandelion - Great Allegheny Passage - Photo by Carol Wingert
Once you get to know this amazing wild edible and medicinal plant, eat it’s leaves. The tiny ones are great in salad, the bigger ones when chopped up make a great pot herb. The rule is simply boil the tough leaves in water, until tender.
The flowers are great in pancake batter. Just dip them and fry them. The roots can be boiled, and eaten too. As a great bonus, the water you boil the leaves or roots in can be drunk as a very pleasant tea, that has lots of minerals, and helps flush water through your system.
If you really want to train your native eyes, make sure you read the next article on Healing with Weeds – Coltsfoot – and compare the flowers, closely.
Have an amazing day, and see you soon on a Native Eyes Plant Walk!
Mr Twenty Twenty
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PS: Dandelion is a diuretic, and a tonic. Generally regarded as a gentle stimulant to the entire body, and especially to the urinary organs, it is primarily used in kidney and liver disorders.
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