taraxacum

/tuh-rak-suh-kuhm/US // təˈræk sə kəm //UK // (təˈræksəkəm) //

蒲公英,蒲公英属植物,蒲公英属,芋头

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pharmacology.
- : the dried roots of any of several composite plants of the genus Taraxacum, as the dandelion, T. officinale or T. laevigatum, used in medicine in powdered or fluidextract form chiefly as a tonic and aperient.

Good extract of taraxacum should be wholly soluble in water.
First, every one knows Taraxacum or dandelion; invalids know crust-coffee, and many with indignation know burnt peas.
Taraxacum, tar-aks′a-kum, n. the root of the dandelion, a tonic laxative in diseases of the liver.
I was suffering at this time from liver complaint, p. 182and had on my shelf a concoction of taraxacum and podophyllin.
Taraxacum Dens-leonis (common dandelion), Smith's, 1853; only there.