Herbal Dandelion(Taraxacum officinale) Prevents the Risk of Impaired Immune Function, According to Study

By Kyle J. Norton

An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc. and tumor cells, including irregular cells growth, cancer cells to keep us healthy.

In most cases, the immune system does a great job of keeping people healthy and preventing infections. But sometimes problems with the immune system can lead to illness and infection.

It is one of the body's defense system against diseases.

Although the immune system has done a great job in protecting us against foreign invasion, unfortunately, during the process of their functions, they may induce the production of free radicals and chain of free radicals that can be harmful to our body.

Immune dysfunction is a chronic condition, depending on the parts of the immune system affected.

There are 2 types of immune dysfunction
* The underactive immune system is also known as the weakened immune system. People with the underactive immune system are susceptible to infection, recurrent infections.

The most common symptoms of the underactive immune system are infection including frequent and recurrent pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections, ear infections, meningitis or skin infections and Inflammation and infection of internal organs.

However, blood disorders, such as low platelet counts or anemia and digestive dysfunction are also some of the common symptoms found in patients with the underactive immune system.

* The overactive immune system is also known as autoimmune diseases. In this case, patients suffer diseases associated with the immune system that attacks the body tissues.

An impaired immune system is a condition in which the immune system does not work properly and can't effectively protect a person against infection. 

Medical conditions with the use of immune suppression can weaken or impair the immune system.

Dandelion is a herbaceous perennial plant, genus Taraxacum, belongings to the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the world. It has been used in traditional and herbal medicine to treat gout, eczema, acne, gall bladder, kidney, liver and urinary disorders, hypoglycemia, dyspepsia with constipation, edema, blood pressure, and heart weakness, chronic joint, skin diseases, etc.

On finding a natural ingredient for the improvement of the immune system, scientists examined the 6 kinds of Chinese traditional herbs on the restoration of the suppressed immune functions in scald mice.

Polygonum cuspidatum, Taraxacum officinale, and Oidenlandia diffusa (wild) roxb showed immunomodulating effects as measured with 3 immunological parameters.

Furthermore, all tested herbal medicine demonstrated a strong effect on cell-mediated, humoral and non-specific immunity, compared to the depressed immune system in the control non-treated scald mice in various degrees.

More importantly, the immunomodulatory effects are varied according to the dosage of drugs.

Taken altogether, Dandelion may be considered an antioxidant remedy for the improvement of the immune functioning, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) [The use of Chinese traditional medicines to improve impaired immune functions in scald mice].[Article in Chinese] by Luo ZH. (PubMed)