Taraxacum officinale - Dandelion
"CONSTITUENT: Taraxacin, taraxacerin, resin, inulin, pectin.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Taraxaci, Extract of Taraxacum. Dose: from five to thirty grains. Extractum Taraxaci Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Taraxacum. Dose: from one to four drams. Specific Medicine Taraxacum. Dose: from five to sixty minims.
Therapy: It is valuable in combination with other remedies of similar action, in chronic jaundice, in conditions attributable to auto-intoxication, in rheumatism and in blood disorders, as an alterative. It is especially an alterative for chronic eruptions, and unhealthy conditions of the skin.
It will stimulate the stomach, and is useful in chronic catarrhal gastritis with perversion of nutrition. In aphthous ulcerations of the mouth it is useful.
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)"