TOOTH LEON (taraxacum officinale)

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	TOOTH LEON
	*taraxacum officinale*

Name
TOOTH LEON

Scientific Name
taraxacum officinale

TOOTH LEON

Castilian: Tooth of Leon.

English: dandelion, blowball, milk witch, yelow gowan, cankerwort, priest's crown, swine's snout.

She is one of the most useful plants. One occurs in wild form and their main properties are like purifying, aperitive, laxative, diurético, antirheumatic and sudorífico. The parts that are used more of the Tooth of Leon are the leaves, the flower and the root. By means of the cofoundation of these a liquid is obtained that serves to alleviate affections of the liver, taking itself as use water; also the infusion of the same ones is a good remedy to deal with problems the biliary vesicle, which must of being ingested by three days. On the other hand, the Tooth of Leon or Lechuguilla is used to alleviate buccal wounds, pulmonary irritation of eyes, affections, cough, throat and muscular inflammation.

Grass that less measures than 30 cm. of height, with leaves forming a circle in the base of the stem and from where leaves their yellow flowers. These when the curing originate globosos fruits. In Center America and Panama it lives in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering, and grows in territories of culture associated with the tropical forest caducifolia and subcaducifolia; scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

Its French name is pissenlit, that is equivalent to something as well as "pipi'-in-the-bed", in reference to its diuréticas properties. Amargón, name with which is known in some American regions of Castilian speech, makes reference to the bitter flavor of its leaves. The root is well-known like radiceta in Argentina.

Plant of lion tooth and alongside two details of its fruit: one with the vilano that aid to scatter and the other to him, without him. A tooth of lion on the verge of letting save its fruits, that will be scattered by the wind.

No text of botany mentions the tooth of lion prior to century xv, and in the CVL it mentions like diurético and vulnerario, although their supposed virtues are put in judgment fabric and our plant falls in the forgetfulness until, in the last years of xlx, he is redescubierto and multitude of virtues attributes itself to him. The herbolarios even speak of "taraxoterapia", that is to say, treatment by means of the lion tooth (Taraxacum).

CHARACTERISTICS: Plant vivaz, herbaceous, of up to 50 cm. of height, heavy root of which, if an incision with a knife becomes, is given off a milky white liquid (látex). From root stems arise floral turgid, that they culminate in a precious flower of innumerable extended petals, of intense yellow color, that is opened with the dawn and it is closed in the twilight, throughout the year. The fruit is very small and, mature, it is united to his base by a plumosa structure that facilitates its dispersion by the wind (it is what the children call "angelitos").

LOCATION: One grows up everywhere. In lands noncultivated in the ways in the meadows and mountains until the 2000. It perfectly grows in the humid places, grass and areas abandoned or incultos of boreal Europe, Asia, Africa and America. One is not in the South hemisphere

HARVESTING: If they are for eating them fresh, the leaves gather at the end of the winter, that is when they are more tender. In order to make infusion preferable cut them before, in the summer they are so tender, but they are less bitter. The root is preferable to take it to the one of the summer or in autumn, that is when but they concentrate in her the active principles.

USES And APPLICATIONS: Like stimulating of the appetite, like depurativas and to take advantage of their vitamin content, the decorated crude leaves like the salads must be used, with dressing of vinegar and salt (in the salads, the oil always has to be of olive). Vinegar by lemon juice can replace, and more considering than the leaves of tooth of lion of by himself, bitter, and the fort lemon taste can disguise a flavor that can, to be disagreeable. In decocción (100 grams of leaves and roots to equal parts by liter of water) it can serve like purifying and diurética, taking a cup before each food. Let us remember, nevertheless, that with the boiling eliminates vitamins. Like diurética, it can be used in infusion of dry fresh leaves or trocito of leaf (half of half) by water cup, that will take after the food the radiceta (the root) is used to obtain a sucedáneo of the coffee. The process to obtain it is similar to the previous one: the root, cut in trocitos is toasted and the infusion is ground is prepared in the same form of the coffee

OTHER RELATED SPECIES:

Taraxacum mongolicum Hand: Amargón of Mongolia (Pugongying).Originario of ample zones of Mongolia, China and Asia ex--Soviet. It is used traditionally like pectoral, in case of gastritis, abdominal pains, and in many other smaller indications. Dose 9-15 g.

Jacaranda filicifolia D. Don: Amargón of the Turquestán. It is cultivated in great extensions of the Ukraine and Crimea to obtain látex, that can constitute until 25 % of the weight by the dry root. When the curing, látex produces a rubber species. It does not have medicinal properties that deserve to be outstanding.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

Internal use:

- Decocción (roots and leaves): a sopera spoonful by cup, to boil two minutes. Three cups to the day, before the meals.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 40 to 60 drops, 3 or 4 times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.

- dry Extract (5:1): 0,5 to 2 g to the day (1 g is equivalent to 5 g of dry plant).

- fresh Juice by root: one to two spoonfuls to the day, along with an infusion.

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