Josh Clark

That's like the introduction, I think.

He put the introduction in the title.

Yeah, that's a little, did it say the end at the end?

Pretty much.

This is from, like I said, the 16th century, and it talks a lot about, you know, all the kinds of things they thought it could help back then, toothaches, fevers, depression, even baldness.

But they also talked about growing it alongside other vegetables and herbs in the garden.

And you dug up this kind of cool fact.

It's ethylene gas that they release.

So if you actually grow dandelions or have dandelions growing near plants,

Yeah.

Isn't that neat?

Super cool.

Yeah.

We're going to cover a lot of actually pretty cool little benefits, I guess, that they provide.

But let's keep going with the tradition of using them medicinally, shall we?

There's a guy named John Gerard who wrote a book in the 1630s, and he's like, hey, I want to contribute to this too.

I've found that dandelion strengthens the weak stomach, which is important because actually if you use the roots of a dandelion, it contains a lot of inulin, which is an important prebiotic for gut health.

So John Gerard wasn't just whistling Dixie.

No, not at all.

It turns out they have more vitamin A than spinach, more vitamin C than tomatoes.