In summer, dandelions often soak in water. What is good for our health?

It is hot in summer, and our bodies are prone to heat toxicity, so it is very appropriate to soak some Chinese herbal medicines in water at this time. Dandelion is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, which blindly "clears away heat and detoxifies". Besides, dandelion tastes less bitter and its price is lower, so it is more popular.

Dandelion tastes bitter, a little sweet, and its efficacy is relatively cold. As a medicine, it not only has a good effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, but also has the effects of clearing away damp-heat, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass.

1. Soaking dandelion with clear water in summer can help us clear away the heat toxin in our body.

Dandelion is fierce in clearing away heat and toxic materials, which can effectively eliminate heat, poison and fire evil in the body. Just like the hot summer climate, we are often irritable, from thirsty and restless to nameless sores and sores on the skin, and even unbearable pain.

Dandelion can clear away the heat toxin in the body very well, and play the role of detumescence and stagnation. In the book "Herbal Preparatory Medicine", it is clearly stated that dandelion is used as medicine to treat sores, carbuncle and furuncle, which shows that dandelion does have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and reducing swelling.

2. Soaking dandelion with water in summer can help us get rid of damp heat in the body.

Hot and humid in summer is sticky, and it is easy to produce hot and humid in the body. For example, sometimes it will be accompanied by sticky tongue, yellow urine, dysuria and so on. In severe cases, it will be accompanied by a stone shower.

If dandelion is soaked in water, it can not only clear away the damp and heat in the body, but also have a certain diuretic effect, which can obviously improve the wet and turbid state in the body and reduce the occurrence of calculus stranguria.

3. Soaking dandelion with water in summer can enhance immunity to some extent.

When modern medicine studies dandelion, it is found that dandelion contains a lot of dandelion sterol, dandelion picrin, caffeic acid and other components. These chemical components can play the role of antibacterial, inhibiting the malicious proliferation of cells and protecting liver cells. It can also enhance the immune level of the human body to a certain extent.

However, dandelion has a good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, but because it belongs to bitter and cold Chinese herbal medicine, excessive use may cause adverse reactions such as diarrhea, so when we feel unwell after drinking dandelion water, we should not continue to drink it.