Comments on: Dandelion Tea Recipe

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:52:15 +0000

Great to see you promoting the great herbal remedies of the Dandelion. Used way back in the tenth century, the common dandelion does have some great herbal remedies, it certainly does meet the criteria of a healthy herb keep producing the great iformation.

By: Cheryfa

Cheryfa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:24:40 +0000

ok, silly me, I guess I just answered my own question.

I could keep my tea in a mason jar, eh?

LOL

By: Cheryfa

Cheryfa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:23:53 +0000

Forgot to mention, the little buggers chew right through plastic bags, gotta keep the dhaals in jars too!

By: Cheryfa

Cheryfa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:16:49 +0000

Hi again Ruth,

Maybe you can suggest to me a better storage method for my tea bags. I love both of the brands you have here on the top of the page, but just tonight I went into my tea cupboard to make myself a cup of dandelion root tea and found it riddled with holes in every bag, and a mound of dead spice bugs in the bottom of the box, (most likely having died of engorgement on my dandelion roots!)

See we cook Indian food and always have these little critters crawling around the cupboards and invading the cereals, (their eggs are in the spices, especially the coriander seed and dried red chilis). We now keep the spices in the freezer and only bring out a little at a time in closed mason jars on the countertop beside the stove for daily use.

But with cereals and pastas everywhere (can’t keep EVERYTHING in the freezer), they still manage to eek out a living in my kitchen, I usually just sieve everything first, (it all comes out in the wash, right?)

Soooo, if I freeze my dandelion teabags, will it effect the potency of the medicinal value?

By: Cheryfa

Cheryfa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:10:18 +0000

Hi Adelina,

I’ve just myself been reading about this subject, diabetes and dandelion. Verified from two different herbal madicinal books I have learned that dandelion will not only help to lower blood sugar levels, and of course support the health of your pancreas, it also helps to ease diabetes’ secondary disease processes; high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol!

Please add not only dandelion to your diet and tea tottling, but try nettle as well, it is even MORE beneficial (if you can imagine that!) for this purpose.

A mix is even better! (I learned nettle will increase the benefit of other medicinal herbs).

And thank you Ruth for this fabulous page, I’ll have to check out the entire site now!

By: Adelina

Adelina — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:04:36 +0000

I am enthralled to read about dandelions. Have been told for years they were good for me but no one really knew how to prepare them. I have an abundance of them here in my acreage and was considering as a last resort to “rounduup” them but I hate chemicals so decided to boil water in large quantities and burn them out. Now that I have found out how to prepare them (whole plant) I am going to brew tea, eat as a vegetable and dry roots for coffee. I have type 2 diabetes and wonder if this could help my liver. Anybody heard about that??

By: alison

alison — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:32:19 +0000

dear ruth, what a find your page is! Here in Greece we eat lots of dandelions. My particular favourite way to eat them is as a salad. We clean the leaves and boil them, changing the water twice.(The older the leaves i.e those picked after the plant has flowered have the strongest and best flavour for me). Drain them and let them become cold. Season with salt, sprinkle with lemon juice and drizzle olive oil over them. Delicious!!

By: michael

michael — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:33:47 +0000

hello ruth
i’m 18 and still in high school
so i read this page and was amazed
so i made the tea and my parents went bokers lol
my mom was saying stuff like it “could put you in a coma” i laughed hard and drank it anyway it was sooooooo goooood thanks XD

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:09:54 +0000

Hi, David! Thank you for writing! You can use the flower—and any other part of the plant—for tea. Just follow the recipe for tea, and use whatever part of the plant you want. I especially like to use the intact, entire dandelion. (And I eat the plant after I drink the tea!)

Another thing I do with blossoms—petals only, no green—is to make “honey”, heating the petals with an equal amount of water to just below a simmer for a half hour or so, strain out the petals if you like, and then heat at a simmer ’til thick like syrup (a lot takes a long time), sweetening to taste.

Dandelions bloom any time during the year, most prolifically in the spring.

Ruth

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:26:46 +0000

Hi Ruth
I am happy to read your responses. Can I use the flower for tea and how?