TCM: Listed under “Herbs that clear Heat”, in “Herbs that clear Heat and resolve Toxicity”, bitter, sweet, cold Taraxacum mongolicum (pu gong ying) enters the Liver and Stomach channels. It removes Toxic Heat, disperses the Liver to improve eyesight, reduces abscesses and dissipates nodules, reduces swelling, disperses Qi stagnation and clumping, clears Heat, resolves Dampness and unblocks painful urinary dribbling.
General: For the treatment of acute mastitis, acute conjunctivitis, acute tonsillitis and tracheitis, hepatitis and cholecystitis, urinary infection with painful urination, boils and sores, dysentery, enterogastritis, inflammation of the eyes, Damp-Heat jaundice.