https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5341965/
Dandelion is an amazing medicinal plant. The Terpenes in the root are anti-tumor. I harvested about a pound of dried Dandelion root powder. 3 pounds as fresh root weight! Or 1.5 liters in volume.
I haven't completely dried it and I'm drying at very low temp - so I can preserve the terpenes because terpenes evaporate at low temp (over 70 F. to 100 F.).
I tasted it about an hour ago and definitely a strong terpene taste! Wow - almost as strong as my Tea Tree Oil! I'm very excited. It took me several hours to harvest and cut off the greens and then clean the roots - spray and scrub. Then I threw in the Vitamix blender to turn into powder.
But terpenes are normally extracted with distillation method using steam and condensation of the steam as oil with water mixed together. It happens in 30 minutes as the steam vaporizes the oil but it takes 3 hours to make sure you get all the oil.
So it would be better to probably just cut up the root into slices and not heat it and then just steep it in hot water at 100 F or so - and this will release the oil better than the powder as the "smell" of terpenes MEANS the terpenes are evaporating into the air.
Of course it's medicinal to have terpenes in the air also.
And the leaves of the Dandelion as a tea were tested for blocking fat digestion - very effective! Green tea also blocks fat digestion. I had no idea. hahahaha.
I will keep harvesting Dandelion - what an amazing food medicine.
OK drinking my first cup of brewed Dandelion Root Tea - the terpenes are not that strong but I didn't use a lot of tea powder. Also I didn't steep it that long. My experience with tea is that if you let it steep a long time it definitely turns much stronger.
It does actually taste a little bit like coffee but with a definite medicinal terpene taste. hahahahaha. I think I preserved the terpenes well enough for sure.
I am finishing the drying of my DRE - dandelion Root Extract in the refrigerator. I opened the bags up so the evaporation will condense on the side of the frig and not back in the bags - that's the hope.
So far I'm surviving five minutes into drinking the tea. I'm drinking it fast.
OK I drank another cup this morning. I moved the bags around to dry some more and then I put the DRE powder into little glass jars with metal lids. I distributed out one jar and have a request for another jar - and am keeping the third. I'm curious to see how long it lasts in the frig.
Meanwhile I have plenty of Dandelion greens and also I blended up the full Dandelion plant as vodka extract - I have a lot of that left.
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