Chicory, contraindications and useful properties of which are discussed below, is an unobtrusive ornamental plant with a fairly strong stems and dense blue flowers.In some cases, they can be white or pink.Useful properties of the plant are mainly associated with its presence in plant tissues natural insulin as necessary to people with metabolic disturbances in the body and, in particular, diabetes.
Apart from him, in chicory also contains vitamins and substances that expand blood vessels and beneficial effect on the nervous system.So it stems can be simply brewed and consumed in the form of tea as a sedative.In folk medicine, a decoction of the leaves and stems of this plant is also used to improve digestion, increase appetite, and inflorescence - for the normalization of the heart.
In classical pharmaceutical his rhizome is used in the manufacture of certain antipyretic, choleretic, diuretic and sedative drugs.In the dried form at pharmacies often sold chicory.Its use is primarily to prepare tinctures, which are then consumed as a tea or externally with various rashes.
Many supermarkets in departments dietary powder sold, used as a substitute for soluble coffee.This is also the chicory.Contraindications and useful properties of the drink known since Soviet times.Then he drank a lot, simply because the coffee was in short supply.However, the soluble chicory much more useful than a strange substitute.First, this drink is capable of charging the body with energy, thus not raising blood pressure without affecting the cardiovascular system (it can be drunk even in hypertensive patients, diabetics and pregnant women).Secondly, chicory can dissolve kidney stones and remove them from the body smoothly and safely.And thirdly, adding powder cakes can achieve excellent taste and flavor, thus benefiting the body.
Despite a number of positive qualities of the product, do not uncontrollably large volumes consumed chicory.Contraindications and useful properties of this product, sometimes bordering each other.For example, positively acting on the heart, it adversely affects the weakened vessels.In particular, it is not necessary to use it to those who suffer from varicose veins in all its manifestations.
If we consider the use of the plant in cooking, it is somewhat broader than just hot drinks.Chicory with milk and sugar, no doubt, many have to taste, but it turns out that its roots can be used in vegetable salads, bake in the oven with cheese and apples and add to pie filling.
But all these qualities have the very inconspicuous flowers that grow in almost every garden and the garden and destroyed as a weed.Although in fact it is the very chicory, contraindications and useful properties are so wide.Many simply do not know what he looks like, and do not identify this plant something necessary or useful in the farm for food.
