I found this fascinating:
We'd no idea about its history
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Its use as a medicine and foraging crop is well known to anyone interested in herbs and herbalism, but I didn't know they've tried to make rubber out of it!
In case anyone was thinking of trying it, it's young leaves you want to eat -- old ones can be very bitter. And as he mentioned it's a powerful diuretic, especially the stem sap. A folkname for it is piss-in-bed, and its name in French isn't dent-de-lion, but pissenlit!
In case anyone was thinking of trying it, it's young leaves you want to eat -- old ones can be very bitter. And as he mentioned it's a powerful diuretic, especially the stem sap. A folkname for it is piss-in-bed, and its name in French isn't dent-de-lion, but pissenlit!
I liked that the Chinese called the root system of the Dandelion an 'Earth nail'. Nice little detail.
The Romans used Daisies as medicine. Surgeons accompanying Roman legions into battle ordered slaves to pick daisies, extracting their juice. I would guess it was applied to wounds as an antiseptic.
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