Swanson Dandelion Root (515mg, 60 Capsules)

Features

• 515mg, 60 Capsules
• Historically used to support healthy liver function

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 2 x 4.2 inches; 0.15 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 0.15 pounds
• ASIN: B002BCMXBY
• Item model number: Swanson-SW1336
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Product Description

You may think you already know the Dandelion but as with all of mother nature's treasures, it could yet surprise you. Often derided as a simple garden weed, it helps to remind us that 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson so eloquently put it, "A weed is simply a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." In the case of Swanson Dandelion Root, how true that is. The Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants from which T. officinale and T. erythrospermum are borne.

• Not just a garden weed
• Used by Native Americans to settle the stomach
• Traditional Chinese Medicine embraced it to cleanse the liver & kidneys
• With naturally occurring chicoric acid

We know them because we have seen them in our gardens, across meadows and through fields for most of our lives. We know them because when we were young we liked to blow at their heads and watch their seeds float off on the breeze. We know them because we were told they were little more than pesky roots.

We thought we knew them. The name Dandelion actually comes from 'dent-de-lion', French for 'Lion's tooth', referring to their pin-shaped airborne seeds. They have been used to make everything from wine to honey substitutes and are edible in their entirety.

Swanson Dandelion Root, has harnessed their most nutritious point - their rhizomes. Which, as it happens are absolutely bursting with vitamins A, B, C and D, as well as minerals like iron, zinc and potassium.

It is that incredible armoury of vitamins and minerals which makes Swanson Dandelion Root such a unique and potent herbal remedy. A fact that was not lost on generations of folk remedies of the past.

Native Americans used to boil the Dandelion in water to create a brew which they believed would trea