{"product_id":"dandelion-multi-90-capsules","title":"Dandelion Multi","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith Vitamin B6, Magnesium \u0026amp; Botanicals · 90 Capsules\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEach serving (2 capsules) provides\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVitamin B6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1714%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMagnesium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e66mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*NRV = Nutrient Reference Value\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlso provides\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDandelion Root**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e320mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAlfalfa\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e170mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJuniper Berry\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e100mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCELERY Seed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eKelp\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNettle Leaf**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eParsley Leaf\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRadish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWatercress**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e80mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e** = Equivalent weight from extract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhen you've been feeling a bit puffy and a bit slow\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a quiet kind of feeling. Your fingers feel slightly fatter on the keyboard than they did last week. Your rings sit a half-size tighter. The trousers that fitted properly on Monday feel less so by Friday afternoon. Your face in the morning mirror has a softness around the eyes that wasn't there last month.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou're not unwell. The bloods are fine. You probably ate a few more salty meals than usual, drank a little less water, slept a little worse, sat at the desk a bit longer. The body is just holding onto a touch more fluid than it really needs to, the way bodies sometimes do when life gets quietly inconsistent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis little bottle is the green-and-bitter answer to that feeling. Nine plants and a couple of nutrients — the kind of thing a French grandmother in a country kitchen would have made you a tea from, and walked off into the garden to gather most of the ingredients herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bottle, in your hand\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA clean cream pot, the green band of our label running around it. Ninety vegan capsules inside. The dose is two capsules, one to three times a day, before meals. Bitterness on the tongue is the traditional cue for digestive plants, and the encapsulated form misses that — but if you tip a capsule into hot water, you'll smell some of the green-and-bitter character through the lid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA capsule with breakfast, a capsule with lunch, a capsule with dinner — that's the high end of the dose. One a day is the gentle end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe story of dandelion\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaraxacum officinale\u003c\/em\u003e — the common dandelion. The English name comes from the medieval French \u003cem\u003edent-de-lion\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe lion's tooth\u003c\/em\u003e, after the jagged edge of the leaf. The plant grows everywhere humans have ever walked. It is one of the most successful flowering plants on earth precisely because it is so undemanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before it was a weed, it was lunch. Roman cooks used the leaves in salads. Anglo-Saxon herbalists prescribed it. Across rural France, the leaves were sold as \u003cem\u003epissenlit\u003c\/em\u003e — literally \u003cem\u003episs-the-bed\u003c\/em\u003e, an unsubtle reference to its long-known diuretic effect. The roots were dug up in autumn, dried, roasted and ground as a coffee substitute, particularly during wartime shortages. Even now, in any French \u003cem\u003ejardin ouvrier\u003c\/em\u003e in March, you can watch retired men picking the first young leaves before the flower comes — bitter, tender, the start of spring on the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two parts of the plant — leaf and root — have slightly different traditional uses. The leaf is a gentle diuretic; rich in potassium, which is a useful counterweight to fluid loss. The root is a \u003cem\u003ebitter\u003c\/em\u003e, traditionally associated with bile flow and digestion, classified for centuries in European herbal practice as a liver-supporting plant. Both have travelled into the modern dandelion supplement, often together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe use 320mg equivalent weight of dandelion root extract per daily serving — a meaningful dose, enough to give the formula its name and its character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlfalfa — the deep-rooted green from the field edge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfalfa (\u003cem\u003eMedicago sativa\u003c\/em\u003e) is a legume, a relative of clover, used as a hay crop for cattle for thousands of years. The Persians grew it for war horses; the Greeks called it \u003cem\u003eMedikai\u003c\/em\u003e after the Medes who first traded it westward. Its roots reach extraordinary depths — sometimes fifteen metres — pulling minerals from soil layers most plants never touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat depth is why alfalfa earned its place in herbal cabinets long before it was a salad sprout. The leaf carries a useful spread of plant minerals and a wide chlorophyll content. We use 170mg per daily serving — a quiet, mineral-leaning grace note in this formula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eJuniper berry — the hedgerow gin botanical\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe juniper berry isn't really a berry; it's a fleshy seed-cone from a small evergreen shrub that grows on chalk downs and Scottish moors. Its smell is the smell of gin — sharp, resinous, piney. That same essential oil profile is what European herbalists prized it for: a traditional diuretic and digestive bitter, used in folk medicine across northern Europe for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe use 100mg per daily serving — a small, supportive dose. The juniper isn't the headline. It's the friend who came with the dandelion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCelery seed — the ancient medicine that became a salt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelery seed, from \u003cem\u003eApium graveolens\u003c\/em\u003e, was used as a medicine in Egypt and Greece centuries before it was used as a vegetable. The Greeks crowned victors at the Nemean Games with celery garlands. Hippocrates wrote about it. By the medieval period, the seed had become a respected component of European phytotherapy, traditionally used for joint comfort and water balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seed is also what celery salt is made of — ground seed mixed with sodium. In this formula it appears as a powder at 80mg per daily serving. Worth a note for anyone with a celery allergy — it shows up in the allergen warning on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNettle leaf, parsley, kelp, watercress, radish — the kitchen-garden chorus\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive more green-and-bitter plants sit at small supportive doses, each carrying a long history of European or coastal-traditional use:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNettle leaf\u003c\/strong\u003e — the sting plant your grandmother said was good for you, dried and lost the sting; rich in plant minerals, traditional diuretic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParsley leaf\u003c\/strong\u003e — the garnish nobody eats; in fact, one of the densest plant sources of vitamin K, traditionally used for fluid balance and as a freshener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKelp\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eFucus vesiculosus\u003c\/em\u003e, the bladderwrack of the Atlantic shoreline; a marine source of iodine and trace minerals, used in coastal European folk medicine for thyroid and metabolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWatercress\u003c\/strong\u003e — Britain's quietly excellent native salad green; a brassica with a bright, peppery profile, traditionally a \"spring tonic\" food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRadish\u003c\/strong\u003e — the small bitter root, traditionally classified as a digestive bitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach appears at around 80mg in this formula. None is the headline; together they form a chorus around the dandelion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMagnesium and Vitamin B6 — the label-honest spine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo essential nutrients carry the EFSA-authorised wording in this bottle. \u003cstrong\u003eMagnesium\u003c\/strong\u003e at 66mg per serving (18% NRV) — \u003cem\u003econtributes to electrolyte balance, normal muscle function, and a reduction of tiredness and fatigue.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eVitamin B6\u003c\/strong\u003e at 24mg per serving (1714% NRV — a high but safe upper level for short courses) — \u003cem\u003econtributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and to normal protein and glycogen metabolism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two are the spine of the bottle. The plants are the headline. The nutrients are the backbone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe formula as a whole\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLay it on a table — dandelion, alfalfa, juniper, celery seed, nettle, parsley, kelp, watercress, radish, magnesium, B6 — and what you've got is essentially a French country herb garden in a capsule, plus two minerals to keep the label honest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe connecting thread is \u003cem\u003ebitter and green and traditionally diuretic\u003c\/em\u003e. None of these plants is a single-active blockbuster. They're the kind of ingredients people in herb-eating cultures consumed in small amounts almost daily — in salads, in soups, in teas — as a quiet, ongoing piece of seasonal housekeeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe didn't pick eleven things at random. We picked eleven that have shared a tradition for centuries — the green-and-bitter palette of European herbal medicine, plus the two minerals that earn the EFSA wording about fluid and energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo capsules, one to three times a day, before meals. Most people start with two before lunch, see how that sits, and add a second dose if helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink water alongside. Plants in this category work with hydration, not against it; they encourage the body to move fluid through more efficiently, not to dehydrate it. A glass of water with each dose is the simplest, oldest piece of advice in the category and it stands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf after sixty days nothing has changed in the way you feel about that puffy-and-slow sense that brought you here, stop. We'd rather have your trust for the next thing than your money for the wrong thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHonest caveats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a food supplement — it complements a varied diet, doesn't replace one. Contains celery, other umbelliferae, and members of the parsley family — read the allergens panel if you have any history of celery or carrot-family sensitivity. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, taking diuretic medication, on lithium, on warfarin or any blood-thinner, taking thyroid medication (kelp content), or living with kidney or gallbladder issues, talk to your GP or pharmacist before starting. Don't exceed six capsules a day. Keep the bottle cool, dry and sealed. We blend and encapsulate to UK GMP standards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've read this far, thank you. We tried to write the kind of page we'd want to read before spending money on a bottle of green-and-bitter capsules — no neon promises, no overblown language. Just a French country garden in a capsule, plus two minerals, and a small daily ritual for the puffy-and-slow weeks of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— \u003cem\u003eVitadefence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vitadefence®","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57112211685756,"sku":"sku-51714914844938","price":14.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9317\/8236\/files\/WATERgo_v7_SN017_3pp_-_1_panel_FP200ML_front.png?v=1782463497","url":"https:\/\/leanandhealthy.myshopify.com\/products\/dandelion-multi-90-capsules","provider":"Lean \u0026 Healthy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}