Hickory Chicory Dandy is a delicious therapeutic tea that can be used to replace coffee. Dandelion tea offers potential health benefits, such as reducing inflammation, improving cholesterol levels, and fighting the flu. With the inclusion of chicory, it possesses anti-inflammatory activity, and this might be due to the inhibition of various cytokines, antioxidant effects, and their free radical scavenging activity. Other health benefits include; aiding bowel movements, can assist in improving blood sugar control and can support weight loss.  It also assists the lung with the alleviation of airway inflammation and the healing of lungs (tracheal tissue and bronchial cells).
 
BioScience behind the ingredients:
 
Dandelion is a perennial herbaceous plant with the scientific name Taraxacum mongolicum Hand. -Mazz. (TMHM). Its main chemical components are taraxasterol, choline, organic acid, inulin, and other healthy nutrients [8]. It is thus recognized as a nutritious wild vegetable. In addition, it has many pharmacological effects. Modern pharmacological studies show that the properties of dandelion include antibacterial [9, 10], antiviral [11], anticancer [12,13,14,15,16], antioxidant [17], anti-inflammatory [18,19,20], and antiallergic functions. In terms of the alleviation of airway inflammation, a distinctive feature of asthma, it has been reported that the organic acid components of TMHM can improve lipopolysaccharide-induced histopathological damage to tracheal tissues [21] and reduce lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation in normal human bronchial epithelial cells [22], which could be beneficial for the treatment of acute tracheobronchitis. Taraxasterol was also found to be effective in improving ovalbumin-induced allergic asthma