DANDELION RESEARCH Detoxing With Dandelion Author Name Detoxing With Dandelion Dandelion can be seen as the main ingredient of a detoxication cure or detox. Mellie Uyldert (see related sources) said that it is wise for every person to eat two leaves of dandelion every day. You can add this to your bread as leaves between the slices of cheese or you can shred it through a salad. Of course dandelion leaves can also be put in soup or on a peanut butter sandwich. Eating dandelion leaf can be part of a lifelong cure but there is also a 14-day cure with the stems. A great detoxifier The healing power of dandelion is well known in European history. Dandelion is a beautiful ower to see. You can eat it and make tea of it. In addition, the herb can be a means of detoxication. In fact, the body permanently takes in too many bad substances. We as modern people eat too many foods that have no nutritional value such as sugars, white our products, trans fats, E-numbers and table salt or sodium chloride enriched with synthetic iodine and an aluminium solution to prevent the salt from clumping. How Dandelion Works Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion Dandelions contain bitter substances. These bitter substances help the bile to stimulate production. The liver works better when the gallbladder secretes more bile. This allows the liver to cope with more toxins. Furthermore, a better functioning liver is good for the entire digestion. More nutrients are taken from the diet. Dandelion can therefore also achieve an anti-fatigue eect; we get enough nutrients again. Permanent Cure With Dandelion Leaves Eating two dandelion leaves every day is in fact doing a cure; a permanent, life-long course of detoxication. There are a lot of waste products in our body and therefore we can always use a detoxication. The 14-Day Detox With Dandelion Stems Normally you shouldn't eat dandelion stems. But you can use them for two weeks to do a cure. As you may know, there is a lot of dandelions in spring. From July onwards, the dandelions have largely nished owering. A cure with dandelion stems is best done when there are lots of dandelions; so that there are always enough stems. How do you proceed? The rst day: eat 1 dandelion stem The second day: eat 2 dandelion stems The third day: eat 3 dandelion stems Etcetera until the seventh day. Then you eat 7 dandelion stems. After this you start counting down again; you reduce the number of dandelion stems by one every day Two approaches Dandelions can thus be used in two ways to detoxify: Daily use of at least two leaves The 14-day dandelion stalk cure Multiple ways to detoxify the liver Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion There are many other ways to detoxify the liver. The beauty of dandelion is that it's free of charge. Milk thistle is the strongest way to detoxify the liver. Carrot, endive and chicory are also eligible to be used by anyone who wants to detoxify the liver. Turmeric is also a good spice that stimulates the liver function. For a healthy liver function, it is important to reduce coee consumption or stop using it altogether. It can help to drink a mix of chicory and coee. Chicory root and leaves also help to detoxify the liver. You can dig up dandelion roots yourself, clean, dry and roast them and then powdering them and using them as a coee mix. Four ways to consume dandelion There are several ways to use the dandelion as a liver cleanser. The most important are listed here: The 14-day dandelion treatment Dandelion tea Dandelion leaf in salad, soup or on bread Using dandelion root as a coee substitute Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion How do you make dandelion tea? Dandelion tea is easy to make by drying dandelion leaves. These can then be powdered. It is possible to do this with a hand blender. If it is powdered you can use dandelion leaves as a basis for tea. It is a good idea to collect nettle tops in the same way and to dry and powdering them as well. Stinging nettles have a stimulating eect on the kidneys and urinary tract. A mixture of nettle and dandelion can purify the body even better. You might want to try this Dandelion leaf is found in various high-end, cleansing tea mixes from organic shops. Dandelions in a Vegetable Garden Dandelions are quite easy to pick in nature. However, you can also grow them yourself. Firstly, you can collect the u balls and put them over a delimited area in your vegetable garden, secondly, you can collect roots or plants from nature and plant them in your own vegetable garden. The advantage of dandelion leaves from your own garden is that you know you don't use rubbish in the garden. In the wild, dandelions are very exible and grow even after herbicides have been applied to them. In nature you don't know exactly what you eat. Dandelions picked in the wild are almost always grown without chemicals. But from dandelions from your vegetable garden you really know for sure. Other ways to detox Besides eating dandelion, it is important to sweat a lot; this helps you to get rid of waste products. Sweating reduces the strain on the liver. After sweating you drink a lot of water, preferably with a little celtic sea salt or himalaya salt to maintain your mineral level. Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion Work up a sweat by: Hard work, for example by digging in your vegetable garden Playing sports, for example running or cycling Visiting a sauna Conclussion: Nature is full of great medicinal plants and herbs that can be used to help aid us maintain our health and immune system in top condition. Among these medicinal herbs, the common dandelion is one of the best documented. Several studies have conrmed the health benets of dandelion. To learn more about the healing power of dandelion follow the link. Further reading and other sources: Mellie Uyldert Healthline Verywellhealth In addition to its diuretic properties... it stimulates the gallbladder, cleanses the liver, helps with allergies and reduces cholesterol and is recommended as a dietary supplement for pregnant women and post-menopausal women. Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion The beginning of April is an ideal time for picking dandelion. Pick it outside the city, in areas far from roads. When picking see that you take out the whole plant (easiest way is to put a knife under the root and push the knife up) because every part of the dandelion is useful and healthy. The leaves of the dandelion (chicory) are great for making a salad. The leaves go great in combination with boiled eggs and potatoes. The leaves contain more vitamins than the spinach and the tomatoes. In addition to that it has diuretic properties it stimulates the gallbladder, cleanses the liver, helps with allergies and reduces cholesterol and is recommended as a dietary supplement for pregnant women and postmenopausal women. Dandelion contains more carotenes than carrots and is a great source of various vitamins and minerals. From the owers of these plants you can make syrup, which is sometimes compared to honey. This syrup cleans and strengthens the blood and improves digestion, and helps with coughing. Preparation: Pick about 400 yellow dandelion owers. Pour over them 3 liters of cold water and insert 4 slices of lemon and 4 sliced oranges. Leave for 24 hours. Then lter through gauze and transfer the liquid in a pot. Add 2 pounds of sugar and stir frequently, cook for about an hour and a half after the liquid is brought to the boil and you should get thick syrup. Then reduce the heat and pour the hot syrup in hot jars that you previously sterilized. Close the lids on the jars. The syrup is dense and is often referred to as honey. It is excellent for removing the symptoms of colds, coughs, bronchitis … Take it with a teaspoon. It's great for the kids, so do not be afraid to give it to them every day. Tea made from dandelion: Detoxing With Dandelion Detoxing With Dandelion Pick the owers and dry them in the open. Of the dried owers make tea and drink it always freshly prepared. You can add honey, which will further enrich the healing properties of tea, but do not forget that you should never put honey in hot tea with a metal spoon. Use a wooden or plastic one. Dandelion root cures cancer This plant is so healing that not so long ago scientists discovered that the root of the dandelion can cure cancer. If we want to keep dandelion root fresh, it should be dry. Before drying, the roots should be carefully peeled and cut into equal smaller pieces after that dandelion root is dried in the open. Spread the dandelion root on a surface, in a cool dry place with good air ow. The root will be dried for a period of 3-14 days, and you will recognize that when dried becomes brittle under the ngers. Dry dandelion root preserves its medicinal properties up to a year in its dried form, keeping it in a jar in a dry, dark place helps. Dandelion root cleanses the liver, gallbladder, kidneys and lymph and stimulates the kidneys to get rid of toxins through urine sent out from the body. This root is also used to treat many diseases, such as constipation, clean the skin of acne, edema and similar, cures arthritis, rheumatism, hepatitis and gallstones.