Most of adherents of healthy food replace coffee with chicory - the drink received from a plant with the name of the same name. Regular consumption of drink helps to fight against various diseases.
Undoubtedly, drink from chicory is useful, as well as all drinks and broths prepared from herbs. It is possible to prepare independently broth, and it is possible to buy ready soluble drink which price is quite acceptable.
Drink from chicory is a good alternative to instant and ground coffee, besides it isn't forbidden at diseases of heart and vessels, a hypertension and violations of a warm rhythm. The potassium which is contained in chicory positively influences a cardiac muscle.
Chicory at diseases of digestive bodies is useful, apply it and at violations in work of a liver, spleen and kidneys. At the people inclined to diabetes, chicory reduces sugar in blood, and at losing weight (and not only) dulls feeling of hunger. Chicory stimulates the exchange processes proceeding in a liver, at the regular use promotes dissolution of stones in kidneys.
Also anti-inflammatory properties of drink are noted also febrifugal, diuretic, bile-expelling.
Practically all vitamins of group B which well influence nervous system and activity of a brain are beverage composition from chicory. At its regular use the mood improves, there passes drowsiness and apathy, the frequency and duration of a headache decreases, the attention and concentration at classes becomes aggravated various activity.
Despite obvious advantage, chicory it is contraindicated to people with a varicosity and the suffering hemorrhoids. Excessive consumption of drink can result in excess of certain vitamins B an organism and by that to break its balanced work.