traditional chinese herbal, “dandelion” and its applications on skin-care

Dandelion (taraxacum officinale) belongs to the asteraceae or sunflower family. its leaves, stems, androots have been used in traditional chinese herbal for a long time because dandelion has a wide range ofpharmacological properties including anti-microbial, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-infectiousas well as anti-oxidation especially in the dandelion root extract which is the most medicinal value.a clinical study of dandelion extracts on skin acne and a simple preparation method of the dandelionextract would be discussed since the dandelion extract has low toxicity on the skin, even is non-toxicbased on the british herbal pharmacopoeia recommendation.