Be careful. So, back in college we had a large drinking festival in the early spring, which is the perfect time to pick dandelion roots. I had a friend very into foraging and natural medicine and he had a source that listed dandelion roots as a way to "detoxify" your body. "Great!" we thought. We'll mix up a big batch of dandelion root tea and drink that after our full day of drinking alcohol and we'll be right as rain.

Two days later we still all felt like shit. We kept drinking the tea, and we kept feeling hung over. Then we actually did a bit more research and learned that really, it was called a "detoxifier" because it was a diuretic. We were dehydrated from a warm day of beer drinking, then drank a tea that kept us from rehydrating.

It tasted fine though. Fairly "earthy" but definitely not as tasty as a good coffee. Coffee can also be a bit of a diuretic, but always consult multiple sources and pay attention to how you body responds to a new chemical.