The artichoke is the perennial grassy plant which is cultivated in the warm countries as vegetable culture. In food not revealed baskets of a flower and leaves which taste like walnut, as a rule, are used. Thanks to the useful properties the artichokes are applied in a diet as a dietary and medicinal product.
Advantage of artichokes
Artichokes are rich with carbohydrates, iron, calcium and rather rare organic acids – cinchonic, caffeine, glycolic, glyceric and other. Besides, various vitamins - C, B1, B2, B3, P are their chemical composition. Artichokes contain phenolic connection of a tsinarin that in a combination with other fenolokislota gives the chance to apply this plant as bile-expelling and hepatoprotective means. Thanks to these from an artichokedo properties the useful medicine promoting removal of urea and salts of heavy metals from an organism.
For additional therapy, medicine from an artichoke is shown at such diseases as dyskinesia of biliary tract, chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, a chronic renal failure and an urolithic disease. Artichokes use also for decrease in level of cholesterol in blood and normalization of a metabolism. Also by means of it it is possible to clean an organism from toxins at chronic intoxications with various substances – nitro compounds, salts of heavy metals and alkaloids.
Application of artichokes
To improve regeneration of cells of a liver, to get rid of diseases of joints, gout, migraine, to improve appetite, to normalize digestion and also to stimulate education and outflow of bile, it is necessary to accept broth from artichoke inflorescences. For its preparation fill in 40 grams of inflorescences with 1 liter of boiled water and let's infuse within 1 hour. Drink broth 3 times a day before food on 1 glass. This means has the anti-inflammatory and anesthetizing qualities.
Except inflorescences for preparation of broth you can use leaves and scapes of a plant.
Artichokes have property to stimulate growth of hair. They since ancient times are used for strengthening of hair follicles at the progressing baldness. For this purpose rub a fresh juice in roots of hair and wash away in 2 hours. Artichokes are widely applied also in cookery. Small inflorescences perfectly approach as snack and are perfectly combined with rice dishes.
It is useful for people to use artichokes with excessive acidity of gastric juice.
It isn't recommended to eat artichokes at a hypertension and gastritises with the lowered acidity. A contraindication to the use of artichokes is presence of diseases of a liver, biliary tract and kidneys in a sharp form.