Safety at a glance
No rule in our tables for this herb: pregnancy, breastfeeding, incompatible pairs (十八反 / 十九畏), herb–drug, dose ceiling. This is not a safety clearance.
Not graded — No toxicity grade is recorded. Most herbs in the catalogue carry none.
Traditionally used for
- Digestion
- Urinary & fluids
- Energy & fatigue
- Skin
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
As a member of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) aggregate, this microspecies is treated as a proxy for the well-documented Western/European herbal use of dandelion. The bitter root and leaf have long been employed as a digestive bitter and liver tonic to stimulate appetite and bile flow, as a gentle alterative ('blood cleanser') in skin and sluggish-digestion complaints, and the leaf especially as a diuretic for fluid retention while preserving potassium (standard Western herbal materia medica, e.g., Grieve; British Herbal Pharmacopoeia tradition).
Botanical Description
Taraxacum laetum is a dandelion microspecies within the apomictic Taraxacum officinale aggregate (Asteraceae) of Europe. Like other members of the aggregate it is a rosette-forming perennial herb with a stout taproot, basal, pinnately lobed (runcinate) leaves, hollow leafless scapes exuding white latex, and solitary yellow ligulate flower heads that develop into globular seed heads of plumed achenes.
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