This beautiful golden flower is one of the first to please us in the spring. He is unpretentious and decorates himself with vacant lots and islets of greenery somewhere under the fence or at the porch. It is a dandelion, a favorite of children and those who are fond of folk medicine.
Dandelion - a healer of 100 diseases
The composition of the "tops and roots" of the dandelion includes a multitude of trace elements: magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, manganese, selenium, copper. There is beta-carotene, vitamins C, K, E, PP and B vitamins. All this makes dandelion a truly precious source of health benefits.
This plant has a hypoglycemic property, helps to lose weight, remove excess from the body. The powder of dandelion root heals wounds. And from it you can make surrogate coffee, harmless to health.
You can make a salad from it. Pick up approximately in equal shares the leaves of dandelion, nettle (pre-scalded them) and sorrel. You can add pancake or spinach. Put the leaves for 30 minutes in salt water (to remove the bitterness and disinfect), then cut and season with vegetable oil and lemon juice (slightly: sorrel sour).
You can make a salad and without adding other wild leaves, supplementing the dandelion with only vegetable greens: parsley, dill, celery, beet tops.
Young leaves of dandelions can be added together with other spring greens in soup or borsch.
What is the use of dandelion jam?
The most delicious and amazing that you can make from dandelions is, of course, jam (and, probably, wine, sung by R. Bradbury). Dandelion jam has undoubted useful properties, and it is not difficult to cook it.
Dandelion preserves
Ingredients:
- inflorescence of dandelions - 300 pcs .;
- water - 0,5 l;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation
So, first you need to thoroughly wash the inflorescence, make sure that no insects in them are sitting. Pour half a liter of water and boil for about 15 minutes. Five minutes before removing from the fire, add two crushed lemon to the dandelions. To insist 24 hours, strain, add a kilogram of granulated sugar - and again on fire. Jam should be boiled several times and cooled until it acquires the consistency of good honey. If it is necessary that the jam should stay all winter, it must be rolled into sterile jars.
It is difficult to list everything from which jam from dandelions helps. First, it has a very beneficial effect on the liver, helps, including, and with hepatitis. Substances that make up the dandelion, restore even liver cells.
Dandelion jam brings significant benefits and as an antioxidant, acting even against free radicals - the possible root causes of oncology.
Anemia, asthma, cholecystitis , diabetes, urolithiasis, constipation, gout, hypertension are the incomplete list of diseases with which this yummy is struggling.
It is difficult to imagine that jam from dandelions can have contraindications. Indeed, they are, in fact, not. But, like any biologically active substance, jam from dandelions can bring huge benefits, and can harm if treated with it unreasonably.
Safety precautions
Jam from dandelions can do harm if you do not follow the precautionary measures.
Do not use dandelion in patients with obstruction of the biliary tract: it is a strong choleretic, so it can end badly.
Persons with ulcers and gastritis should observe their usual caution.
Jam from dandelions - tasty, but medicine! You can not abuse them. In case of an overdose, problems with the gastrointestinal tract may occur.
Collect flowers should be away from the roads: the composition of the dandelion and so very rich, it is not necessary to supplement it with salts of heavy metals and other muck.