Plants and their European monographs
- Dandelion — Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg., root
European Medicines Agency monograph (EMA/HMPC/475726/2020): traditional use for mild digestive disorders, for temporary loss of appetite and for increasing urine volume in minor urinary complaints.
From “Before You Begin”
The book’s safety page, quoted as it stands. Read the whole page — it is free.
- Fifteen of the recipes are drunk whenever you like. Make them at whatever frequency suits you, within the limits each chapter gives.
- If you came here to replace a daily cup of coffee, Chapters 32 and 35 are the two you want, and they are written for that purpose.
- Pregnancy. Twenty-six of the twenty-eight recipes here are restricted in pregnancy — most because safety has not been established rather than because harm has been shown, but the answer is the same either way. The two that carry no restriction are the rosehip brew of Chapter 26 and the sea buckthorn of Chapter 28, both of them fruits eaten as food across Europe.
The recipe is in the book
Chapter 35 gives the rest:
- the amounts and the steps
- what each plant does in the cup, and on what basis
- who should not drink it, from what age
- how much, and for how long