So much interesting and unknown hides in himself rich flora. Some fruits of flora have phenomenal abilities and properties thanks to which positive impact the human body receives an improbable charge of vitamins, mineral elements and important amino acids. And in this article we will reveal a secret of one more special plant whose fruits are often applied in confectionery production and in the pharmacological sphere. It will be a question of a licorice. So, let's understand, than this surprising plant is unique and especially.
History
The history of emergence and use by the person of a licorice goes to far antiquity. At the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs this plant received the distribution, being applied as medicine. Information that Egyptians grew up and used a licorice is confirmed by the fact that this plant was found at excavation of a tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Other mention of a licorice can be met in legends and original records of times of Alexander of Macedon. It is no secret that its many thousands army far promoted on the East till the boundaries of modern Mongolia. Of course, to support and support such army was very difficult task. And if food could be got, then here with water in desert east lands it was especially heavy.
In this situation to the aid of macedonians and Greeks that licorice which fleshy roots contain useful substances which not only load an organism with energy came, but also grant desired satisfying of thirst.
Ancient China also widely applied a licorice root in the medical purposes. About its useful and even unique properties and abilities sets of notes in treatises about medicative herbs of different eras were written.
Ancient Rome used a root of a licorice as fine cough, catarrhal diseases means and katara (a serious illness with plentiful hypostasis and inflammation of mucous covers).
Whether you know? Not less popular use of a liquorice was also during the Middle Ages era. During this period this plant was turned into folk remedy of treatment, as they say, from hundred diseases. Juice of a licorice was added to food as sauce, sometimes applied even in the cosmetic purposes and widely used in preparation of various delicacies, including the marinated and salted vegetables.
Types
In spite of the fact that it is accepted to call this plant the general name licorice, it has more than thirty versions. And all of them are widely applied in the modern world as medicinal, cosmetic, food and technological components.
From roots of a licorice make improbable quantity of products, generally confectionery origin from which it is possible to distinguish:
- fruit jelly;
- licorice candies;
- lollipops;
- granules;
- straws;
- sticks;
- some drinks;
Whether you know? Besides traditional products where the liquorice is added, this element is applied in preparation of some types of paste and pasta (color of such products turns out saturated black).
If to speak about types of a liquorice as ready component, then distinguish the liquorice pressed and cast. Apply a method of boiling thanks to which juice of a root of a licorice becomes dense as syrup, and joins and interferes further with other additives to production of the last. Also cast liquorice can give the various forms, filling in it in in advance prepared tanks. After hardening it is possible to receive interesting candies in the form of animal, geometrical figures or original abstractions.
The pressed liquorice differs in the fact that it is cooked at first, and later squeeze out by means of special devices, receiving long sticks which turn in snails (spiral) subsequently.
Structure
The prevailing elements as a part of a liquorice are carbohydrates. There are practically no fats in this product as however and proteins. Thanks to high degree of saturation carbohydrates this product is the excellent natural and natural power engineering specialist capable for a long time to present a cheerfulness charge to our organism.
Besides, as a part of a liquorice there is a set of useful vitamins and minerals and also the vital amino acids thanks to which our organism can normally function.
Important! Contents in a liquorice of vitamins of B1, B2, B3 and B6 group is most concentrated. Besides, the liquorice is vitamin-rich groups A, K, PP, E and With that turns it into the real well of useful.
Besides a big variety of vitamins, in roots of a licorice there are sets of mineral connections from which it is possible to distinguish zinc, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, manganese and sodium which are also vital for functioning of a human body.
Curative properties
It is difficult to overestimate usefulness and efficiency of curative properties of a liquorice. For a long time this plant was widely applied in the medicamentous field, successfully coping with respiratory diseases and all forms of bronchitis.
Honey from an acacia, cowberry leaves, broths from a bergenia, rosemary, coltsfoot, a plantain, jam from pine cones will help to cope with respiratory diseases.
For today this representative of flora took strong positions in medicine, pharmacology and national methods of doctoring, equally effectively being applied in the most various cases. Except catarrhal diseases the root of a licorice is capable to cope with locks, diarrhea, gout, organism intoxication, integument diseases, rheumatism, osteochondrosis and osteoporosis. This plant is a part of syrups, tablets, capsules, broths and infusions. It is possible to refer to the main curative properties:
- anti-inflammatory effect;
- positive influence on respiratory bodies;
- spazmolitichesky influence;
- promotes increase in immunity;
- means for organism intoxication;
- strengthens natural production of insulin;
- reduces risk of growth and development of malignant cages;
- means for prevention of cancer diseases;
- ability to dilute blood and other liquid substances of an organism;
- promotes improvement of work of a stomach;
- influences normalization of processes of functioning of a pancreas, liver and kidneys;
- has cosmetology properties — favorably influences an integument;
- it is applied as excellent antidepressant;
- increases vigor and courage;
- promotes maintaining mobility of joints;
- is prophylactic from cirrhosis;
- promotes strengthening of a cardiovascular system;
- prevents appearance of strokes and heart attacks;
- purifies blood;
- interferes with emergence and development of a clotting.
Indications to application
As well as some indications to application which we also will consider below are also peculiar to the majority of medicines, a liquorice. So, it is possible to carry the following to number of the factors indicating the need of application of licorice means:
- Predisposition to diabetes or progressing of a disease.
- Failures and violations in work of digestive system.
- Weakness and small elasticity of joints.
- Damages, presence of ulcers or inflammatory processes to a mouth.
- Presence of carious diseases of a mouth.
- Failures and insufficient regulation of water-salt balance.
- Insufficiently resistant immunity, predisposition and susceptibility to the virus attacks and colds.
- Failures and violations of a menstrual cycle.
- The broken process of withdrawal from the intestinal highway.
- Diseases of respiratory bodies, thyroid gland, heart, liver, bladder, kidneys.
Cosmetic properties
Besides indisputable usefulness of a liquorice for internal application, it is also widespread in cosmetology and dermatological skin and hair care products. Excerpts and extract of this representative of flora actively use in various creams, balms and face skin and hands lotions and also in gels for bathing. The licorice affects the general elasticity of skin and normalizes its natural color, saving from excessive pallor. Especially often body creams with extract of a liquorice apply in a breast, hips and a stomach.
Also products of processing of roots of a licorice add to the shampoos restoring masks and hair balms. Such conditioning agents behind head skin and hair help to cope with dandruff, interfere with a hair loss, doing them stronger and increasing their natural gloss and silkiness. And it is possible to forget about a problem of the splitting ends once and for all.
In order that hair looked well-groomed, were strong and silky, use masks on the basis of almond, castor, mustard, hempy oils, wheat germ oil, avocado, cocoa.
Besides, the liquorice is added to the anti-aging line of cosmetics as some components of a licorice promote cell regeneration and production of the collagen which is increasing elasticity of skin and carrying out the tightening lifting effect. And still properties of a liquorice help to fight against emergence of dark stains on an integument and interfere with appearance of rashes, hypostases and pimples.
Contraindications
Despite quite extensive list of indications to application, the liquorice has also a certain set of factors which can be contraindications. So, it is possible to carry such to their number:
- Hypertensia.
- Existence of individual intolerance or tendency to allergic reactions.
- Stay of the woman in the provision of pregnancy or lactation.
- At a reception combination with diuretic medicine. At neglect this rule this plant can become responsible for a myopathy, gipokaliyemiya, atrophy of muscle tissues.
- If to the child it was not executed three years.
- In the presence of failures in work of kidneys.
- Redundancy of body weight and also obesity.
Important! It is worth accepting a liquorice as medicine appointed by the doctor. The excessiveness of reception of products of a licorice can cause decrease in male power, promote emergence of puffiness, fragility of hair and their partial loss, failures of a menstrual cycle in women, emergence and progressing of feeling of chronic fatigue.
Pharmaceutical medicines
Apart from the use of products of processing of roots of a licorice in the food and cosmetology industry, there is also a number of medicines by means of which it is possible to give the help and support to the organism. Their number includes syrups, extracts in tablets, dense extracts and vegetable raw materials. We will in details consider all this in this section of our article.
Syrup
Licorice syrup is the most universal form of production of the pharmacological medicines containing in themselves licorice extract. Most often this form is registered in cases of catarrhal diseases or bronchitis. Sometimes syrups use at early stages of ulcer defeats or gastritis. Having the enveloping and anti-inflammatory property, licorice syrup very effectively takes off pain and promotes fast recovery.
Besides, syrup can be applied also in the preventive purposes. Then the course of its application as the instruction says, makes 10 days.
Whether you know? Licorice syrup can safely be given to children, even pediatricians prescribe this cold medicine to kids of a year. Thanks to sweetish taste and quite pleasant smell such medicine will not cause whims and shouts of indignation in small children.
Licorice root extract in tablets
The tableted form with licorice extract most often is applied in cases of sharp diseases of digestive tract, an ulcer, gastritis, damages of a duodenum and in a number of chronic diseases. One such tablet is capable to protect your stomach and intestines from an adverse effect of acids and alkalis, having prevented inflammatory processes and a possibility of emergence and progressing of ulcer defeats.
Also such tablet comprises all useful properties of a root of a licorice about which we spoke earlier. It will supply your organism with a large number of nutritious minerals and vitamins and also will promote the general strengthening of immunity.
Dense extract
Is issued in bags. It is dissolved in a large amount of warm water and is accepted inside as broth. Dense extract of a root of a licorice helps at the simple and complicated forms of respiratory diseases and promotes recovery acceleration, facilitating and at the same time enhancing efficiency of an otkharkivaniye. In addition such broth is capable to overcome a set of types of stomach diseases and intestines, including early stages of tumoral processes.
Also dense extract helps in need of treatment of diseases of kidneys, adrenal glands and a liver. In addition renders vitaminization and a mineralization of an organism, enhancing protective qualities of immunity.
Vegetable raw materials
It is also possible to find in drugstores also dried vegetable raw materials which are produced in the form of powders, grass collecting (it is possible with combination of other useful plants) and also in the form of medicinal tea. All these forms of vegetable raw materials are also useful to a human body though in the course of drying a part of useful minerals is lost.
Anyway, but such type of medicine is quite effective in fight against catarrhal diseases and inflammatory processes in digestive tract too. Such broths or teas will help to clean kidneys and to support their working capacity.
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Except efficiency of dosage forms, great popularity the liquorice in confectionery has, all sweets receive special and unique taste and aroma, having once tried which it is difficult to refuse this delicacy.
Unique properties, the amazing spectrum of action and originality of a liquorice come down to its diverse useful and beneficial influence on a human body and all activity processes proceeding in it. In fight against a number of diseases extract of a root of a licorice will become irreplaceable and especially useful means thanks to which you will feel not only simplification and treatment of your disease, but also increase in the general tone of an organism and also a charge of cheerfulness and energy. It is only important to remember that each medicine has the indications to application and contraindications. It is worth appointing and entering into a diet licorice means after consultation with the doctor.