Healing with Food: Dandelion Lemon Ginger

(from greenfood’s recipe box)

he dandelion has a number of medicinal properties. The sap from the stems can be used to cure warts, and the leaves can be dried and made into a tea to aid in digestion. A tincture brewed from the blossoms is believed to help with complaints related to the liver, and the root can be dried and brewed into a tea as well.

Some people use dandelions to enhance psychic abilities, use of dandelion roots in a tea to aid in divination and prophetic dreaming.

In some magical belief systems, the dandelion is associated with growth and transformation – after all, a few dandelion flowers soon turn into hundreds of seeds waiting to travel around the neighborhood, repopulating other yards. There’s also a connection to moving on – if you’ve got a bad habit you want to get rid of, associate it with a dandelion puff, and then blow it out away from you.
Ingredients

Source: Weston A Price

Ingredients

  • 1 inch of fresh ginger root
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 6 tbsp unfiltered, raw honey
  • Big handful dandelions
  • Half gallon of filtered or spring water

Directions

  1. Use half the water in the blender, mix another half in pitcher.

  2. Blend ingredients in blender, squeeze through a nut milk bag.

  3. Poor in pitcher and enjoy!

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