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Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

Dandelion appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: low concern
Books: 19
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 72

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: dandelion
Latin name: Taraxacum officinale(ambiguous)
Identity note: Taxonomy is often treated as an aggregate.

Safety

low concern

Generally low concern, with allergy and diuretic cautions for medicinal use.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Generally low concern, with allergy and diuretic cautions for medicinal use.

Aliases

dandelionTaraxacum officinale

Dandelion in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine and folk magic. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

medium

King's evidence anchors dandelion roots as an inulin source and links the root material to hepatic torpor and atonic dyspepsia contexts, despite some textual degradation in the excerpt.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 171

Medicine

high

Burton groups dandelion with endive, succory, and fumitory as blood-cleansing herbs in melancholy treatment, especially where spleen and blood are implicated.

Anatomy of Melancholy | Robert Burton | 1621

Page 583

Folk magic

high

Drake records dandelion seed-head divination: children blow the downy top to tell time or answer love questions, making the plant a rustic oracle.

Myths and Fables of To-Day | Samuel Adams Drake | 1900

VII OF FATE IN JEWELS

Preparations and ritual uses

Root extraction

medium

King's links dandelion roots to inulin preparation and digestive or hepatic materia medica, though the OCR around the medicinal sentence is degraded.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 171

Eye-scum root charm

high

Hohman instructs gathering four or five dandelion roots before sunrise on St. Bartholomew's Day, sewing them into an unwetted rag, and hanging it before the affected eye.

Pow-Wows | John George Hohman | 1820

Page 42

Dandelion Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Primitive Culture Vol 1.

Matched as dandelion; high confidence.

Folk magic

4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Domestic Folk-lore.

Matched as dandelion; high confidence.

Preparation

9 passages across 9 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.

Matched as dandelion; high confidence.

Safety

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted.

Matched as dandelion; high confidence.

Dandelion Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Crowfoot | Cuckow Point | Water Cress | | Cudweed | Crosswort | Dill | | Dandelion | Daisy | Devils Bit | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Eringo | Eyebright | Elecampane | | Dock | Dragons | Dogâ€™s Grass | | Dropwort | Doveâ€™s Foot | Bloody Dock | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Foxglove | Flower-de-luce | Figwort | | Fleawort | Fumitory | Fluellin | | Fennel | Flaxweed | Feverfew | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Wall Hawkweed. | Hartâ€™s Tongue. | Mouse-ear Hawkweed. | | Gentian. | Golden Rod...."

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Preparationalias: dandelionhigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"... Inulin docs not reduce Fehling"s solution, nor does it undergo fermentation. It may be prepared in abundance also from dandelion roots, and those of the dahlia and other roots of the Compo: :, rtxakneg/' of the dujeMiw. orqmix, hepntie torpor, atonic dyspepsui, with flatus, and internally and externally ill 'ettrr. itrh. and Other riUanemi,-i diiea.ie.-<. when="" added="" to="" the="" compound="" syrup="" of="" spikenard="" it="" should="" be="" exhausted="" by="" boiling="" alcohol="" and="" tincture="" instead="" with="" other="" articles="" as="" is="" usuall..."

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Preparationalias: dandelionhigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...ong and narrow also, but they are considerably larger. The flowers grow at the top of the branches; they are large like dandelion flowers in shape, and of a most beautiful pale yellow; the seed has a white down annexed to it. The root is long, thick, and brown. The root is the part used, and it is best fresh taken up. It is given in infusion, and it is cordial, and operates by sweat; it is good in fevers, but little used. ### VIPER'S BUGLOSS. *Echium.* A COMMON wild plant, about our path ways, and on ditch-banks, known by its spotted stalks, and fine blue flowers..."

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Preparationalias: dandelionhigh confidence

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

Gustavus Hindman Miller

1901

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Safetyalias: dandelionhigh confidence

Clavis Astrologiae Elimata

Henry Coley

1669

"...r Miot, Lung-wort, Wheat, Pyony, Self-heal, Liquorish, Wallwort, the Dazie, Fumitory, Elecompane, Colts-foot, Cinkfoil, Dandelion, Endive, Succory, Blood-wort, Hyssop, Liver-wort, Sage, Scurvy-grass, Bill-berries, Bar-Berries, Mul-berries, Cherries. - To Mars, all manner of Thistles, Onions, Leeks, and Garlick, the Nettle, Mustard-feed, Pepper, and Ginger, Carduus Benedictus, Worm wood, Brook-lime, Madder, Hops, Broom, the Bramble, Radish, Crow-foot, Haw-Thorn, Furs-bush, Rheubarb, Horse-radish, Spear-wort, Dane-wort, Birth-wort, Colloquintida. - To Sol, Saffron,..."

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Preparationalias: dandelionhigh confidence

Books Mentioning Dandelion

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

19 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Dandelion in Historical Sources

Medicine

Medicine

Folk magic

Preparations and ritual uses

Root extraction

Eye-scum root charm

Dandelion Archive Contexts

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Safety

Dandelion Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

Clavis Astrologiae Elimata

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