dandeline root and lemon grass extracts

[lewicki]

Is any one using these Herbs ?

Seems they may have apoptosis on prostate cancer .

[larry_dammit]

Yes I use dandelion root every day, I mix it with cinnamon tea and honey. Not bad ,hoping it helps. 55 months and counting 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[Afterglow]

I drink the tea's regularly just in case their is a benefit.

[Currumpaw]

Hey lewicki!

My grandparents always ate a few pots of spring dandelion greens from the yard. It was a practice passed down from the generations before them. As Nalakrat said, it used for liver issues or just as a live cleanser.

Medicinal Traditionals offers dandelion root tea as well as leaf and root. Whole Foods sells organic dandelion greens.

Memorial Sloan Kettering article might be of value. Read the, "Do Not Take If", part. Copy the script between the lines.

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Dandelion. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Updated 2019.

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Currumpaw

[treedown]

I eat the greens fairly regularly but not the roots.

[lewicki in reply to treedown]

Interesting. I have the greens growing all over. In full bloom now. Do you harvest them all year and how do you prepare them. I do not fertilize or use any pesticides on the grass. Actually the grass is just a field around the house that I mow.

[treedown in reply to lewicki]

I get them from my local food coop, we also have in our yard and don't use chemicals. Very recently my wife asked why I don't harvest them and I had no good answer, so this may be the year I do it.

I eat them raw in my salads, they are quite bitter. That said most of the greens I eat are bitter to varying degree's The right dressing and additonal items added help mitigate that, nuts, dried fruit, other veggies/mushrooms, sauerkraut. etc , etc.

[lewicki in reply to treedown]

I learned how to make Collard greens I googled quick collard greens and found a good recipe. Maybe a good idea to add all these greens to the Collard recipes. My response to making Collard greens was overwhelming. I am very happy to get so many responses from the forum about greens. You are what you eat.

[treedown in reply to lewicki]

Collard greens are much hardier than dandelion greens, I eat those quite frequently as well, cooked and raw, so would not want to cook together. I also like mustard greens, dinosaur kale (my preference of the various kale's), mizuna, beet greens, carrot greens, broccoli greens, chard, radicchio (all types), leeks bulbs/ fronds, spinach, romaine lettuce, watercress and others that don't come to mind all eaten raw.

We get organic kraut at Costco and buy a few tubs at a time and eat it on almost everything.

I also make a batch of sauteed veggies weekly with 5 types of mushrooms, rutabaga, turnip, burdock root, jicama, (the last 2 are pre-biotics) at least 1 form of radish, eggplant, jalapeno, carrot, celery, celiac root (occasionally), garlic, sweet peppers, roasted chestnuts (when available) , leeks or other onions and purple potatoes. I probably forgot a few. We eat this as a staple with some form of vegetable protein or occasionally some fish or chicken. This would be in addition to greens in salads. Some weeks I also roast about 10 pounds of cauliflower/greens, brussel sprouts, figs, tofu and a bunch of the veggies above. That keeps my family in veggies for about 5 days. The roasted veggies are made spicy and we eat them like candy and they don't last as long as the others.

As you may notice its about diversity, fiber and promoting gut biome for me.

[lewicki in reply to treedown]

That is great what you are eating. Really fantastic. Going to introduce some of these in my diet. Rutabaga and turnips were in my diet as a kid but wife never aet them as a kid so she has no taste for them.

[treedown in reply to lewicki]

I didn't eat them as a child but I really like them now. I tried them all raw and they were OK but I prefer them sautéed with herbs and spices. I counted 33 ingredients in 1 batch.

[TFBUNDY in reply to treedown]

Your salads n greens sound amazing. I must try to be more imaginative..

[lewicki in reply to treedown]

I have a local store catering to Polish etc. customers . Here I can get Kraut out of the barrel. I suppose it has all the probiotics. Since Covid the barrel is hidden. Great stuff.

[j-o-h-n]

If you're picking them from public places..... make sure people don't walk their dogs there. I know that some us eat dog wormer but I don't think any of you want dandy's if dogs leave a leak on them....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Friday 05/07/2021 5:20 PM DST