Josh Clark

I think that kind of kicked off in COVID when people are like, well, I can't go to the store.

What can I eat that's in my backyard?

I'll try dandelions.

I've always wondered what they taste like.

So, yeah, nice.

So I think we said probably a couple times that people have been using dandelions for all sorts of reasons, not just as pot herbs.

For a long time, one of the earlier mentions we can find was in the Arabic world, a couple of physicians named Raziz and Avicenna both wrote about some of the properties of dandelions and dandelion roots back in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Right.

And most of what they were talking about was its use as a diuretic.

And medicinally speaking, that's probably the most famous property that dandelions have is they make you pee.

And in fact, there's a couple of names that refer to that depending on where you are for dandelions that refer to the fact that they make you pee, right?

Yeah, that's right.

In France, they're called, apparently more than they're called the Denteleon, they're called the Pissenlit, which means, you know, pee-pee in the night.

And a folk name in England is Pissabed.

For the same reason.

Yeah, and, you know, apparently it's all the potassium in there that's going to stimulate urination.

And, you know, because of that, diuretics are used for a lot of things.

And, you know, medicinally now and historically, if you want to work something through your system and pee it out, dandelions is a good way to make that happen.

Yeah, and very famously in the American Midwest, they're called pee-pee weeds.

Aw.