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Taraxacum officinale COMPOSITAE

The common “dandelion is probably the most underestimated and maligned “weed” ever to be consigned to the rubbish-heap. For generations, gardeners have complained about the plant’s encroachment into the flower and vegetable domain, and the difficulty in completely eradicating the tenacious roots and prolific seed heads. Dandelions, in spite of them, keep coming up smiling and, for the good of our health, it is just as well they do! Just listen to a record of their virtues: They contain potassium and calcium salts, manganese, sodium, sulphur, vitamins A, B, C and D, and that necessary liver-regulating substance, choline. The plants will grow and prosper only near human habitation, and are found all over the world wherever man has pushed back indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses. In comes the “stirrer” (its botanical name comes from the Greek taraxis—to stir up), insistently reminding gardeners of its often unrecognized value.

Star-disked dandelions, just as we see them lying in the grass like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes followed the lead of the ancient philosophers who placed dandelions under the dominion of the Sun. The leaves of the plants were used as a general spring tonic and blood purifier as soon as the first warm weather brought them into full growth. Their potency is greatest in spring and summer. During these seasons, the milky juice from the stems and leaves can be dropped carefully on to any warts on the skin. With repeated applications, the warts will soon blacken, shrivel, and drop off altogether.

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