Chicory is a perennial plant with a powerful root system. This grassy plant grows in Russia, in Ukraine and also in other countries with a temperate climate. Chicory is very useful to a human body therefore it is used for treatment of many chronic diseases. And also, this plant is popular substitute of coffee.
Description
This plant has a strong core root which very deeply gets into the soil. Chicory leaves bright, oblong, with accurately expressed main vein, rounded off or narrowed on the end. Flowers of gently blue color, are more rare white or pinkish, are located on a short individual stalk which departs from a top of a part of a leaf. Chicory fruits not clearly pentahedral, as a rule, with a cop from short scales.
Useful properties
The rhizome of a plant contains about 60% of inulin, to 20% of fructose, a glycoside интибин, B1, B2, B3, C vitamin, beta carotene and also various macro - and minerals. For treatment of various diseases use roots, flowers, fruits and also chicory tops. Consumption of chicory normalizes a metabolism, stabilizes cholesterol level in blood, brings toxins and slags out of an organism. The plant helps to remove heat and to appease allergic reactions, removes stagnation of bile and normalizes a warm rhythm, increases appetite, but at the same time normalizes intestinal microflora and stimulates digestion. Light diuretic action makes chicory the great assistant for the losing weight people.
Application of chicory in traditional medicine
Crush roots and a grass of a plant, fill in 250 ml of boiled water of 2 tablespoons of a herbal blend and bring to the boil. Leave to infuse for 3-4 hours, having wrapped up with a towel or a shawl. Ready infusion is recommended to accept at a cholelithic and urolithic disease on 100 ml 3 times a day, in 20-30 minutes prior to food. At diseases of a spleen it is also useful to accept infusion from a chicory root. For this purpose 20 g of the crushed root fill in 250 ml and leave to infuse for 40-60 minutes. Then filter and drink 1 tablespoon after each meal. Chicory is applied at treatment of cirrhosis and also at other diseases of a liver. Fill in 4 tablespoons of the crushed roots, stalks and leaves of a plant with liter of boiled water and put on slow fire for 15 minutes. Then to add 3 tablespoons of honey, 2 tsps of apple cider vinegar and to mix carefully. Drink ready broth hot 3 once a day on 250 ml. Chicory infusion perfectly helps to get rid of eczema. Fill in 250 ml of boiled water of 3 tsps of the crushed grass and flowers of a plant, leave to infuse and filter in 20 minutes. Put the wrung-out mix of a grass and flowers to the damaged sites of skin until eczemas disappear. This plant it is possible to treat also antritis. Fill in 100 ml of water of 5 g of the crushed root and bring to the boil. Insist 2 days, then filter and dig in 4-5 times a day in each nostril 2 drops. It is necessary to dig in infusion within 12 days.