This is a plant that should never be dried, from the fact that authors have told us, and we know by experience, that it loses its medical properties when dried, consequently the green root is the part in demand for medicinal virtue.

Medical properties and uses. -- Dandelion is a laxative to the bowels, yet very mild and certain in its effects. It is a valuable remedy in constipation, and in dyspepsia where constipation is connected with it. Dose, of the tincture of the root, from one-half to a teaspoonful three times a day.