Wild dandelions

[Other names] Dandelion, dandelion, dandelion, golden hairpin grass, dog milkweed, yellow flower dandelion, Huahualang, etc.

✿【Plant morphology】Perennial herb, 10-25cm tall, containing white latex. The roots are deep and long, single or branched, with yellow-brown outer skin. The leaves are basal, arranged in a rosette shape, comb-oblanceolate, pinnate-lobed or pinnate-lobed, the lobes are triangular, entire or with several teeth, slightly obtuse or pointed at the apex, gradually narrowing to a petiole at the base, glabrous, with fine, spider-like soft hairs. The flower stalks are shorter or equal in length to the leaves, elongated when fruiting, with a single, terminal inflorescence on the upper part, about 3.5cm long; the involucral bracts are herbaceous, green, partially light red or purple-red, with or without horns at the apex, and with white bead-like hairs; the ligulate flowers are bright yellow, truncate at the apex, 5-toothed, and bisexual. Achenes are oblanceolate, khaki or yellow-brown, with longitudinal ridges and transverse tubercles. The transverse tubercles above the middle have thorn-like protrusions, a beak at the apex, and white pappus at the terminal.

✿【Origin distribution】It is produced in hillside grasslands, roadsides, roadsides, river banks, sandy land and fields. The medicinal material is mainly produced in most parts of the country.

✿【Nature and flavor】Cold, bitter, sweet

✿【Meridian】Liver and stomach meridians

✿【Medicinal Parts】The whole plant is used as medicine. It is best to use gray-green, no additives, and dry.

✿【Effects】clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, diuresis and relieving stranguria