Taraxacum officinale, Weber
Common Name: Dandelion
Parts Used: The root
Constituents: Taraxacin, taraxacerin, resin, inulin, pectin.
Preparations: Extractum Taraxaci, Extract of
Taraxacum. Dose, from five to thirty grains. Extractum Taraxaci Fluidum, Fluid
Extract of Taraxacum. Dose, from one to four drams. Specific Medicine
Taraxacum. Dose, from five to sixty minims.
Physiological Action. This agent acts mildly upon the liver as a
cholagogue, and in consequence its laxative influence is mild. It stimulates
the flow of bile into the duodenum, and encourages the eliminative changes
carried on by the liver. It encourages the proper elaboration and
elimination of urea, and the excretion of uric acid.
Therapy: It is valuable in combination with other remedies of similar action, in chronic jaundice, in conditions attributable to auto-intoxication, in rheumatism and in blood disorders, as an alterative. It is especially an alterative for chronic eruptions, and unhealthy conditions of the skin. It will stimulate the stomach, and is useful in chronic catarrhal gastritis with perversion of nutrition.
Abstracted from :
Ellingwoods American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy - 1919
