DANDELION ROOT

Energetics

Western Herbalism:
Cool–neutral • Bitter • Drying • Downward-moving • Clearing

TCM / Constitutional:
Cooling • Bitter • Draining excess while supporting restoration

Movement / Tissue Action:
Stimulates digestive intelligence • Supports hepatic clearance • Improves metabolic movement • Restores healthy elimination and assimilation.

Dandelion Root possesses a distinctly regulatory tonic quality — not nourishing through direct building, but through improving flow, processing and constitutional housekeeping.

Qualities

Alterative • Hepatic tonic • Bitter digestive • Cholagogue • Choleretic • Metabolic restorative • Mild diuretic • Digestive stimulant • Mineral-supportive tonic • Constitutional regulator.

Indications

Dandelion Root often suits the constitution that has become congested, burdened or metabolically stagnant through prolonged excess, accumulated heat, impaired elimination or diminished digestive intelligence.

The presentation may include sluggish digestion, hepatic overload, inflammatory heat, skin reactivity, poor fat metabolism, bloating, irritability linked to congestion, damp accumulation, constipation tendency, or the slow heaviness that accompanies impaired metabolic movement.

Dandelion frequently belongs to terrains where the body's rivers are moving too slowly.

Rather than forcing detoxification aggressively, Dandelion Root restores clarity through movement, bitterness and improved metabolic regulation..

Digestive / Bitter Support

• Weak digestive secretions

• Sluggish digestion

• Bloating

• Reduced appetite

• Poor fat digestion

• Bitter deficiency patterns

Liver / Metabolic Support

• Hepatic congestion

• Metabolic sluggishness

• Detoxification support

• Chronic constitutional stagnation

• Inflammatory metabolic terrain

Elimination / Regulatory Support

• Mild constipation tendency

• Reduced metabolic clearance

• Damp / congestive constitutions

• Slowed physiologic movement

Skin / Inflammatory Terrain

• Skin conditions associated with hepatic burden

• Heat / inflammatory constitutions

• Chronic low-grade inflammatory presentations

Constitutional / Long-Term Support

• Digestive restoration programmes

• Bitter tonic protocols

• Recovery of metabolic resilience

• Constitutional regulatory support

Contraindications / Cautions

Use cautiously with:

• biliary obstruction

• active gallstone disease

• significant gastric irritation / ulceration

Planetary Rulers

♂ Primary

Movement • hepatic action • metabolic activation • bitter intelligence • clearing of stagnation.

Dandelion expresses a Mars-like action to restore health through directed movement and metabolic correction.

☉ Secondary

Digestive fire • organismic regulation • healthy metabolic sovereignty.

♃ Minor expression

Restoration through improved nourishment, assimilation and physiologic abundance.

Key Constituents

• Sesquiterpene lactones

• Taraxasterol

• Inulin

• Triterpenes

• Bitter principles

• Potassium

• Polyphenols