For certain you met bright blue flowers which grow in the form of a weed on fields, roadsides of roads, waste grounds and meadows. It is also chicory which is successfully cultivated for application in confectionery production and the coffee industry. Chicory is the only analog of coffee which has useful properties.
Useful properties of chicory
Contains in a root of chicory: 10-20% of fructose, up to 60% of inulin, a glycoside интибин (which found application in pharmaceutics), carotene and vitamins C, B1, B2, B3, micro and macrocells (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and many others), tannins, organic acids, albumens, pectin and pitches. The most valuable component which is a part of a root of chicory is an inulin which represents the substance contributing to normalization of work of an alimentary system and also improvement of a metabolism.
The chicory root won popularity in traditional medicine for a long time, is a herb. In modern medicine this unique product also finds various application and all thanks to the mass of useful properties (calming, astringent, diuretic, febrifugal, sugar-lowering, bile-expelling, anti-inflammatory and antivermicular).
Broth from a root of chicory is considered excellent means for improvement of appetite, normalization of work of a pancreas. This plant has bile-expelling effect and promotes dissolution of gallstones, strengthens exchange processes and a blood-groove in a liver. The inulin which is contained in chicory contributes to the development of useful intestinal microflora and strengthens immunity. The root of a plant finds broad application in treatment and prevention of a duodenum, stomach and also gastritis, locks, dysbacteriosis, diseases of a gall bladder and liver. Chicory isn't less useful to cardiovascular and nervous system. Drink from a root of this plant is useful to the people sick with a hypertension, a depression, migraine, a neurasthenia or at insomnia. Chicory has the calming effect on nervous system thanks to group B vitamins which are its part. Potassium which contains in a root promotes removal of cholesterol from blood, expansion of vessels, normalization of a rhythm of reductions of heart. Chicory will bring benefit to the people having coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, tachycardia and other diseases of a cardiovascular system. The high content of iron gives the chance with success to apply chicory to prevention and treatment of anemia. The regular use of a root of chicory will help the person to save the organism from toxins and slags, heavy metals and radioactive materials. Thanks to anti-inflammatory and bactericidal properties, chicory with success is used as wound healing means. Broths and infusions from this root are effective for treatment of seborrhea, neurodermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, eels, allergic dermatitis, diathesis, chicken pox, a furunkulez and vitiligo.
Contraindications
It is necessary to mention contraindications which this product has, them very little. It isn't recommended to combine intake of chicory with antibiotics, it can break digestion of medicine. It is necessary to refuse use of chicory to the people having problems with veins. As chicory is rich with vitamin C, and some people have an allergy to ascorbic acid, it is necessary to drink about care drink from a plant root. It is necessary to refuse chicory at spasms of a respiratory system.