methods of treatment gain popularity more and more. Many patients, having despaired to find understanding at doctors, resort to folk remedies in hope that they will help and will cure their illness. Such type of self-treatment is known since ancient times when unwell was treated at sorcerers, without having an opportunity to address the vysokokvalifirovanny expert – the medicine then was still insufficiently developed. Doctors quite often used gifts of the mother nature, collecting various herbs, doing collecting and tinctures.
Medicinal properties of such plant as chicory were disclosed long since, and it is applied not the first year to treatment of various diseases. For many chicory became known as coffee substitute, it can be got freely in grocery stores at the affordable price. And here fans of gardens or holders of a kitchen garden at the dacha consider this plant a usual weed, pulling out it with roots, chicory is not choosy to the habitat, and grows practically everywhere. By the way, the root is that part which is used for powder creation. Powder of chicory is good the fact that it does not contain caffeine in the structure at all, and its taste can be partly comparable with taste of coffee. Drink in itself is bitterish, it is allowed to add honey, sugar, cream or milk on the discretion to it. Thus, it is shown for the people having a hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and has no contraindications. Besides, it can be used in the preventive purposes sick diabetes, in a type of contents in it of inulin, about 45-60%. It lowers the content of sugar in blood.
It is shown at neurosises, calms nervous system. It can be used and outwardly, applying on problem sites of skin, for example, at acne rash, diathesis, psoriasis.
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Chicory is known also for the zhelche- and diuretic effects, beneficial effect on digestive system. Such problems as nausea, an eructation, heartburn, the broken metabolism found the solution by means of chicory. There were cases when at illnesses of a gall bladder, the patient used chicory regularly during few months, and its complaints to weight and belly-aches stopped.
It is widespread also in cookery as universal seasoning, its leaves lay down in meat dishes and salads, and strew with powder confectionery. The special taste and a smell of chicory is its distinctive feature and introduces the highlight in food.