Chopped dandelion root can be combined with myrrh to make a poultice for boils and abscesses, with honeysuckle flowers to make a tea to be drunk to treat boils and abscesses, with skullcap and / or chrysanthemum flowers to make a tea to be drunk to treat sore eyes, or with heal - all to treat hard phlegm in bronchitis.
Ingredients For every three quarts of water add: 1 large onion,
chopped 2 carrots, sliced 1 cup of daikon or white radish
root and tops (ideal, but optional) 1 cup of winter squash cut into large cubes 1 cup of
root vegetables: turnips, parsnips, and rutabagas for sweetness 2 cups of
chopped greens: kale, parsley, beet greens, collard greens, chard,
dandelion, cilantro or other greens 2 celery stalks 1/2 cup of seaweed: nori, dulse, wakame, kelp, or kombu 1/2 cup of cabbage 4 1/2 - inch slices of fresh ginger 2 cloves of whole garlic (not
chopped or crushed) Sea salt, to taste 1 cup fresh or dried shitake or maitake mushrooms Instructions - Add all the ingredients at once and place on a low boil for approximately 60 minutes.