Burdock is an amazing plant that I didn't begin to get to know until living in Japan. It's very popular in Asian cuisine, one of my absolute favorite dishes being carrot and burdock kinpira. Kinpira is a word used for quick, spicy, fried dishes, usually comprised of root vegetables. It's amazing with lotus root, too!
After hearing jim extol the countless virtues of burdock, I became utterly confused as to why us Americans so seldom use or even know of it. He pointed out to me that most people view dandelion as a pestilence, rather than nutritious salad greens, or potential compost tea.
I decided that since burdock has positive effects on the balance of most body systems, that I would incorporate it as a tea into my morning regimen. I put a little burdock and some bancha green tea into an infuser, and at first found the tea quite delicious. After a while I started to feel a bit nauseas and disoriented though, but I'm not ready to attribute that to the tea yet--it could have easily been my yakisoba.
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