Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Dandelion or Diente de León

taraxacum officinale weber

Notes:

Dandelion is a medicinal plant with wide medicinal applications. Since this plant contains a lot of nutrients, vitamins and minerals, even more than other vegetables of mass consumption, so it has important medicinal properties. It is used for liver problems because it promotes the secretion of bile, hepatitis, cirrhosis, for digestive problems such as gastric hypoacidity, inappetence, is diuretic, rheumatism, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, wound healing, hypertension, helps prevent birth defects or problems in pregnant women to contain high levels of folic acid.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Nayeli
Spotted by
Nayeli

Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Spotted on Sep 4, 2012
Submitted on Sep 4, 2012

Related Spottings

taraxacum Taraxacum officinale Dandelion Taraxacum officinale

Nearby Spottings

Eucalipto Butterfly Rufous-capped Warbler Caterpillar

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team