Group of plants Flower chicory. Ordinary chicory

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My early childhood passed in the wonderful edge of the endless fields and mighty forests. My grandfather worked as a forester, knew many different natural visits. I remember, we went to check the planting of young pines. The grandfather drew my attention to the chicory and said that this plant was a real natural hydrometeorological center: the rain the beautiful gentle blue flowers chicory became darker and closed, and to the appearance of sun and clear solar weather, they revealed and again acquired a sky-blue view.

Chicory ordinary to its flowering - no remarkable long-term grassy plant with a simple or branched high stem, which (like the leaves) is covered with solid vintage. The root leaves form a beautiful outlet, and the upper leaves are "hugging" the stem.

Heavenly Boumonds Inflorescences - Baskets consist of gentle and tongue flowers. The fruit of the chicory is a seed with an egg-shaped tank with a film crown.

Blooming in the warm summer begins at the end of June.

The chicory is growing along the roads, in the meadows, along the stony places and on the banks of the rivers, in the parisades and gardens as weed. Always about him a lot of bees, as he is a wonderful honey. Separate grades of chicory are cultivated. Their roots are used to make a drink - a coffee substitute. For this, chicory diabetics is very valued.

Chemical composition of chicory

Contain chicory roots up to 60% inulina. What it is? Inulin - polysaccharide accumulating in plants from a family of comprehensive, such as dandelion, burdock, Topinambur, and of course chicory. Inulin when taking inside, a person is able to participate in the same metabolic metabolic metabolic processes as glucose. This is important, since inulin replaces glucose in situations when it is not absorbed by cells with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Inulin from the drinking cup of chicory coffee in the acidic area of \u200b\u200bthe stomach under the action of the enzyme is hydrolyzed with the formation of fructose.

And fructose is absorbed by our organism without insulin, being a nutrient for our cells. Energy hunger and complications of type 2 diabetes, therefore, do not occur.

But not only it is rich in chicory - it contains choline. About choline heard many. So, the pharmacy preparations of Glipin, Cerepro, Nooholin - are derivatives of choline. The action of choline nootropic, regulating metabolism in a brain, which improves cerebral (cerebral) blood flow. In our drink from chicory, though not so much Holine, but still he is present.

Contains chicory vitamins, bitterness.

Application of chicory

What widespread use of the root of chicory acquired over many years!

Chicory root:

• improves digestion, metabolism,
• soothes the central nervous system,
• replete rhythm of heart abbreviations,
• restores the work of the heart,
• acts as a soft laxative and diuretic.

It is used in the complex treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, during the diseases of the liver, with stones in the bustling bubble and kidneys, with an increase in the spleen. In hypertension, chicory can replace coffee, but without increasing pressure.

In folk medicine, it is recommended in the form of infusion inside as a forceful, diuretic, choleretic, painkillers for dyspepsia, especially with pain in the stomach, and also recommended for diseases of the kidneys, spleen, liver, during exhaustion, hysteria, type 2 diabetes, with anemia.

Outwardly in the form of wiping and wickers, the decoction and tincture of chicory are recommended by folk medicine in the treatment of eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, solar sloping wounds, with skin diseases: rashes, boils.

In traditional medicine, Bulgaria chicory is used to treat the stomach ulcers, as well as for the treatment of throat (for example, angina), respiratory organs, with impaired urination.

During the Soviet Union in the Azerbaijan Medical Institute, clinical tests of liquid alcohol 50% of chicory extract were carried out by 70% alcohol for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Soviet scientists have proven that at the first initial stages of type 2 diabetes, it is treating chicory. In more launched stages of diabetes, an improvement in the health of the patient and the partial reduction of sugar in the urine is noted.

In therapeutic purposes in folk medicine, all the plant is used: and grass and roots. The tricks are assembled during active flowering, and the roots in September-October.

Recipes of traditional medicine from chicory

With dyskinesia of biliary paths The grass chicory with flowers is used. For cooking it is better to take a thermos. Dry grass chicory crushed. One teaspoon with a slide chopped herb of chicory to put in a thermos, pour steep boiling water with a glass, let's break in 40-60 minutes. Take half a glass 30 minutes before meals in the morning and in the evening. The gallbladder will work more active: the digestion will improve, there will be no bile in the stomach, there will be no fermentation and rotting in the small intestine, they will not disturb constipation.

With bile-stone disease and urolithiasis It is better to apply together and chopped herb chicory, and chopped chicory root. On 1 tablespoon of roots and herbs, put in a thermos and pour 2 cups of steep boiling water, let it stand for 4 hours. Take 20 minutes before meals at half a glass in the morning, at lunch, in the evening. Course 21 days.

Under urinary incontinence Mature women applied chopped chicory root. In the enameled saucepan, put 1 tablespoon of chopped chicory root, pour 1 cup of steep boiling water. Boil on a water bath for 10 minutes, let it stand for 1 hour. Cool and bring to volume 1 cup with boiled water. To drink over the day of 1/4 cup 20 minutes before meals. Course 21 days.

The same decoction applies with neurasthenia and climax Pathological, removes inflammation in the spleen.

With a cold, fever, rheumatism: To the thermos to place 1 tablespoon of chopped chicory root and 1 teaspoon of the grass of the tolody of the viscous (labānik). Pour 1 cup steep boiling water. Let stand for 1 hour. Take 1/2 cup several times a day.

In complex treatment tuberculosis The root and the blooming grass of the chicory of ordinary are used. For this, 2 tablespoons of the roots of chicory, 1 tablespoon of blooming grass (dry), 1 teaspoon of a labaznik grass, 1 teaspoon of a bakingbird grass in a thermos 2 glasses of steep boiling water. Let stand for 1 hour. Take 1/2 cup with mumina tablets 0.2 x 3 times a day. Course 3 months.

With liver dystrophy, liver cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis: In the enameled pan, put on 2 tablespoons of the crushed roots of the chicory of the ordinary, add 1 tablespoon of chopped herbs chicory, pour 3 glasses of steep boiling water. Cook in a water bath for 15 minutes from the moment of boiling. Let it breed for 25 minutes. Strain. Take 1/2 cup hot with honey x 3 times a day. Course 3 months.

The same recipe is applied externally (without honey) with eczema, dermatitis, furunculosis, jaws, trophic ulcers, burn in the form of applications.

There are information about the treatment of sinusitis, but effectiveness has not been proven.

When losing hair Apply this decoction inside and they are also rinsed with hair after washing.

These are the interesting ones - blue chicory flowers on a green meadow. I, as a diabetics, herself regularly takes the drink of chicory and is pleased with the action of this plant, so I always always tell the pharmacy visitors about him, and today and our readers.

Good health!

Verizor-herbalist Vera Vladimirovna Sorokina

- A comprehensive perennial plant with spine-shaped and thick root. In the whole plant is Milky Juice. On a high straight stem, covered with hairs, there are regular leaves. Chicory flowers - blue, and come and pink, and white color are located in inflorescences or are on short baskets. The fetus of chicory is a seed prismatic, which has a highcaboon from films. On one bush of chicory, you can collect 3-25 thousand seeds. Chicory blooms in summer, and the fruits ripen from the end of summer until the middle of the autumn.

Chicory is found in Ukraine and in Russia. It grows on the ground, the hills and along the roads. In therapeutic purposes, the plant is grown in many countries.

Useful properties of chicory

Chicory normalizes the metabolism in the body, is able to withdraw all toxins from the body. Chicory cleans the kidneys, helps to improve the patient's condition. In addition, it is used to improve blood composition. Chicory excites appetite, improves the activity of the intestine, and is also an excellent means of heartburn. Thanks to the ability of chicory to increase the total tone of the body, it is used instead of coffee beans. A drink from chicory cleans the vessels and removes fatigue and fatigue.

Chicory has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. It is used as an antipyretic agent for colds and other diseases.

The benefits of chicory

Such a wonderful plant as chicory is widely used to treat many diseases. Its benefit is due to the high content of various microelements that have immunostimulating properties. In addition, the regular use of chicory prevents the growth of pathogenic microorganisms and strengthens the metabolism in the human body. Due to its unique chemical composition, this wonderful plant boasts choleretic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, light soothing and wound-healing effect.

What is the useful chicory? It has a beneficial effect on the reduction of glucose in the blood, normalizes the function of the pancreas, and also enhances cardiac activity. Often chicory used as antimicrobial and binder. Along with this, it is endowed with anti-inflammatory, soothing, antipyretic and vasodilatory properties. For diabetics, the best drink is not found, because chicory is able to replace sugar, and starch. Chicory in most cases is shown in many gastrointestinal problems. It also has a well-fastened effect on human immune mechanisms. Such a healing plant contributes to healing wounds and eczema, and also features a weak antitumor effect.

Damper chicory

Chicory harm may also apply - for example, for people suffering from hemorrotype and gastritis, chicory can be dangerous. Before it is applied, it is necessary to consult a doctor who will determine the degree of possible harm. As a rule, up to three years such a plant is not recommended to use.

Chicory during pregnancy

Due to the fact that the composition of this plant has a significant number of useful trace elements and various components, chicory during pregnancy is prescribed as an effective tonic. Useful drinks based on such a plant can gently remove toxins from the body, excess liquid, warning swelling, and nausea. In addition, it perfectly affects the intestines, being an excellent stimulating agent for regular defecation. Regular reception of a small amount of chicory will increase appetite.

Such an amazing plant will easily give birth to a healthy child, because it effectively purifies blood from harmful impurities that can be extremely dangerous in such an important period.

Is it possible to drink chicory nursing moms?

Such a common drug as chicory with a large content of beneficial substances and vitamins, doctors do not recommend nursing mothers. It has been proven that some components have a strong exciting effect on the infants. In addition, in some cases a significant was recorded. Despite the fact that the organism of the mother of chicory has a tonic and immunological effects, through breast milk it can cause a strongest.

The chicory has long been deservedly famous for its unique healing properties. As one of the main impacts on the body, it is possible to note the effect of light weight loss. The roots of the plant contribute to the purification of blood from harmful impurities, remove toxins, which causes weight loss.

To combat extra kilograms, we recommend to prepare a special means. We take 1 teaspoon of chopped chicory roots, pour out 500 grams of water and boil over medium heat for 10 minutes. After that, the resulting healing decoction should be strain and retain cool. To obtain a quick result, the drink is taken by 100 grams to three times a day. The main thing - do not forget that it should be drunk 30 minutes before meals. In addition to the noticeable loss of excess weight, the chicory has a health effect in general on the whole organism. In addition, it is able to cope with strong sweating and restore the liver functions.

Soluble drink from chicory

The delicious soluble drink from chicory is distinguished by wonderful useful trace elements, which positively affect all internal human internal organs. Its specific taste of something resembles the taste of coffee, but the chicory is not so harmful. Of course, the soluble drink contains a smaller number of trace elements, but they are sufficient for a light tonic and improving effect. Regular use of such a drink perfectly stimulates the work of the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal tract, and also normalizes the work of the liver, kidney and spleen. Soluble chicory can be called one of the best tea and coffee substitutes.

Application of chicory

Folk medicine has long been using chicory as a coogeon, choleretic and diuretic. This plant has a range of useful substances used in the treatment of various diseases and ailments. Chicory has a well-fastened properties, thanks to which it is recommended in the treatment of anemia, infectious and colds. The tincture of chicory on alcohol helps to treat cuts, wounds, allergic to insect bites.

The use of chicory is recommended for people with constant nervous breakdowns, and. Chicories are used to expand vessels. The plant contains a large amount of inulin - substances that reduces blood sugar content. Also, chicory improves the process of digestion.

Chicory has a positive effect during the treatment of kidney disease and spleen. This plant has antitumor properties. From chicory prepare infusions, decoctions, teas, fees, bulls and compresses for outdoor use.

How to brew chicory?

We buy chicory roots, my and envy. Next, fry them in a frying pan. Fry roots until all the moisture evaporates from the roots. Do not be afraid when a very unpleasant smell appears when roasting roots. Roasted chicory roots are crushed in a coffee grinder and poured boiling water.

On 1 teaspoon of chicory take 1 glass of boiling water. The drink is boiled on a weak fire for 5 minutes, after which they remove from the fire and leave for a few minutes. Drop chicory can with milk, lemon and sugar.

Decoration for outdoor use. For its preparation, take 20 grams of dry grass and chicory roots and pour with two glasses of boiling water. Leave for 10 minutes. This decoction is used to wash the eyes when conjunctivitis and for the surcharge.

Tincture chicory for wounds of wounds. We take 10 grams of roots along with the grass of chicory and pour 40 ml of alcohol. We leave for a week to launch and apply for wipes in the treatment of skin diseases.

Chicory juice with Qing and anemia.Take fresh leaves of the plant and leaving them juice. Mix juice with milk and take 15 ml three times a day. Such treatment lasts 1-1.5 months.

Collection with chicory with gall-name disease.We take a dandelion root and chicory - 50 grams. We add 50 grams of mint leaves, trifoli and rebel to them. Now 2 tablespoons of this collection and fill with 500 ml of boiling water, we leave for a few hours. Drink all the decoction for 2 days.

Anti-cellulite bath from chicory

We take 2 tablespoons of chopped herbs chicory and pour 1 glass of boiling water. We leave in the thermos for 1 hour. All pour in the bath and take a four-hour bath. Baths are accepted every other day until the number of procedures reach 21.

Decoration of chicory for hair growth. For its preparation, we take the grass and the roots of chicory in the amount of 30 grams and fill with four glasses of boiling water. We put on fire for 30 minutes. After removing from the fire, we leave half a day (6 hours). Straighten ready-made decoction, rub in hair roots. Then you should wait 10 minutes, after which they wash the decoction of chicory from the hair under running water and give hair dry.

Growing chicory

In the first year, the plant forms a root rosette of the leaves, while in the soil the root rope with a thickened horse is being formed. In the second year of life, seeds are formed. Grow chicories can be seeds and root division. For cultivation, absolutely any soil is suitable, the main thing is that the site is well lit. Chicory tolerates freezing, but short-term. Seeds are sulking 3 cm in the soil. Before sowing seeds, the soil must be exploded and after sowing is sealing. When 2-3 leaflets appear on the shootings, the plants thin. At the same time, fertilizers are made in the soil consisting of superphosphate, potassium sulfate and ammonium nitrate.

Chicory is resistant to drought, but if it is regularly water, it will give more harvest. For the cultivation of chicory, only acid wetlands is not suitable. From the date of the appearance of germs before the formation of fruits takes place for 4 months.

Where does chicory grow?

Chicory grows in the Mediterranean. Most scientists consider the Mediterranean of the birthplace of this plant, although some florists and nerds point to Northern India, while others on North China. Despite the fact that the plant does not like high humidity, it can be found in the tropics. Moderate climate is optimal for chicory. You can find a plant in Australia, New Zealand, in the Eurasian continent, in North and South America. In Russia, chicory is found in the European part of the country, in Altai, in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia.

The wildering chicory shares on the meadows, on wasteland, forest edges, along the roads passing by the village, as well as next to other settlements. Mountains chicory does not like and never rise above the middle strip.

The plant is actively cultivated, for which, under his landing, people allocate huge fields. You can cultivate culture and on our own garden.

How and when to harvest chicory flowers?

Plant flowers need to be collected from June to September. It is at this time that the mass flowering of chicory is observed.

Grass must be collected in environmentally friendly areas. It is important that there are no lively tracks nearby, factories and trash dumps have not been located.

The optimal time for collecting flowers is the morning, after the plant dries dew.

To prepare flowers for drying, you need to collect only the flowering part of the chicory. Stems for this purpose are not suitable.

How to dry chicory grass?

To get high-quality raw materials, you need to know how to dry the grass chicory correctly. So, cut stems are placed in the shadow. For this, attic rooms are suitable. The surface on which the stems will be located should be covered with a cloth. You can dry grass on the street, under a canopy.

Periodically, the dried plant must be turned over to give it evenly to dry. The fact that the drying process is complete, will indicate dry stems that will easily break.

The harvesting of the roots of chicory begins in March, or in late October, early November. It is necessary to do this in that period, while the ground part of the plant is dying, so in the roots, the maximum of the beneficial substances is concentrated. This is due to the preparation of the plant by the rest period.

The root of the plant has a big length, so it will not be able to pull it out. To extract the root from the ground, the shovel will be required. After digging, raw materials need to be cleaned from the soil, rinse in cold water and tear thin side roots. Then the roots lay on the grass so that they dry a little.

Before the final dryer, the roots must be cut across so that small pieces come. If the root has a greater thickness, then it should be cut further along.

Sew roots, like the grass you need either in the attic on the fabric, or under the canopy. Although the optimal drying method is considered to be drying in the oven, or in special drying chambers. The temperature should be at 60 ° C. If it fails to adjust it, you should simply switch the door of the oven. The fact that the drying process is completed, it will indicate the crack of the root when trying to break it.

The chicory root perfectly replaces coffee, but there is no caffeine in it. But other useful substances are a lot. Chicory, unlike coffee, does not have an irritant effect on the walls of the stomach, does not excite the nervous and cardiac system, but at the same time it increases appetite.

To get high-quality raw materials for the preparation of cystic coffee, it is necessary to cut the roots into small pieces, dry at least 12 hours in the oven at a temperature of 100 ° C. Then dried raw materials are roasted in a frying pan before darkening and grinding in any available way.

Coffee from chicory can be drunk both independent drink, and with the addition of barley, soybeans, oats, dried carrots, blueberries, fried almonds, etc. As for the number of additives, it depends on the preferences of a particular person.

How to store chicory?

Keep the dried grass chicory should be in breathable packaging, for example, in the bags of fabric or in paper bags. The place should be chosen darkened and cool. Keeping more than a year chicory grass is impossible.

The shelf life of dried roots is three years. For that, they are laid out on packages of paper or fabric and remove into a dry place.

As for roasted raw materials, it must be placed in hermetically closing the container and remove into a dry place. It is necessary to apply ground chicory solely with a dry spoon, as it absorbs moisture very quickly and comes. This affects both the taste of the finished drink and its benefits.

Contraindications for the use of chicory

Despite the fact that chicory is a very useful plant, there is also contraindications to its use. People with varicose veins and other problems with chicory vessels can not be applied. Carefully and carefully chicory should be used to people with.

Expert editor: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma RGMU them. N. I. Pirogov in the specialty "Therapeutic case" (2004). Ordinature at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University, a diploma in the specialty "Endocrinology" (2006).

Ordinary chicory - Cichonum Intubus L.
Astrovaya family (complex) - Asteraceae Dumort

Cycologies Ordinary - (Folk Names Batogi, Betpers, Batog, Petrov Baptiga (Ukr.), Petrov Butok, Petrov's Batogi, Batogi Blue, Glaska Autumn, Papwall, Fareweight, Plantnik, Roadside grass, cikor Grass, Tatar color, Blue flower, Shcherbak, Baranya Grass, Jastnager, Skider, Chernaya, Kulbab, Artichoke, Petrov Knut, Blue Buty) - Powerful long-term grassy plant with a height of over 1 meter. Root fleshy, stem upright. There is a root rosette of the jigid-peristoid leaves.

Stroke leaves are oblong-lanceal, almost one-piece. At the ends of the branches are light-blue colored baskets, having 10-12 bunch of rolled blue flowers. Fruits - seed.

Flowers from June to autumn.

It grows in Ukraine, in the middle and southern strip of the European part of Russia, in Western Siberia, in Central Asia. It grows wildly along the roads, everywhere on the hills, on the intelligence, part of it is cultivated for economic and industrial purposes. With therapeutic purposes use roots, grass (stems, leaves, floral baskets), seed, milky juice.

The roots are harvested in autumn (September-October), digging by shovels or with a more thick standing plowing a plow. Choose their hands, shake the ground, cut the knives overhead parts and wash in cold water. Thick roots are cut along, and long-across pieces. Dried in furnaces or dryers, spreading thin layer (3-4 W) on the sieve. The raw material consists of integer or cut, highly wrinkled roots, outside the brown-gray, inside white or yellowish. There is no smell, taste is bitter. Cultural grades are not suitable, as they are much more bitter substances. The grass of chicory is harvested during flowering and dried in the shade in the usual way. From the stems and leaves chicory mining milky juice.

In the roots of chicory, it was found to 40-60% of polysaccharide ininulin, a protein substance 3.6%, tanning substances 0.6%, glucose 10-20%, levulisa 4.7-6.5%, chlorogen, isoooohlorogenic and ascorbic acid, vitamins Groups in, choline, fats, glycosides (inthibin, chicarin, lactacin), pectin. In the above-ground part of the plant, the concentration of inulin fluctuates from 40 to 50%. In roots and leaves, choline, traces of vitamin k.

When roasting the roots of chicory from carbohydrates and proteins of the root, cycarole is formed, which contains acetic 63.5%, valerian 6.43% acid, acrolein 2.5%, Fourfurol 2.3%, Furfir alcohol 23.25%. Cumarine glycosides (Cihorin, Ecoletin-7 Glycoside and Eskulin) were found in the flowers. In the leaves - inulin, ascorbic and chicory acids.

The plant is rich in the Milky Juice, which found bitter substances (lactacin, lactukopicrin, triterpen alcohol Taraxastrol). Seeds contain inulin, liquid oil and pyrocatechine aldehyde. The decoction of wild chicory has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and astringent action. According to experimental data, the infusion of the inflorescences of the wild-growing chicory in parenteral administration has a soothing effect on the central nervous system and enhances the activity of the heart, increasing the amplitude and slowing the rhythm of heart abbreviations. In addition, chicory improves appetite, enhances digestion, increases urine release and bile, stops diarrhea. The decoction of seeds has an anesthetic, antipyretic and coating effect.

Chicories highly appreciated the doctors of ancient times as a versatile medical agent. It was part of the main component in the composition of numerous complex drugs used for liver diseases (acute and chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, biliary disease, cholangitis), gastrointestinal tract (acute and chronic gastritis, enterocolites), mucouspons (stomatitis, conjunctivitis), When wounds, articular and muscle pain (gout, radiculitis, myiosis), with poisoning to poisonous insects and animals. Ibn Sina used the drugs of chicory in the treatment of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, nausea, eye inflammation, gout, and also as a tool quenching. The decoction of the root in the form of a dressing was recommended to apply on the joints when the scorpion bite places, snakes and lizards.

In Russia, from the beginning of the XIX century, they began to cultivate mainly chicory ordinary in order to obtain roots, to a lesser extent - Salad chicory, to use leaves. K. Kant recommended chicory with digestive digestive paths, constipation, stagnation in the liver, with jaundice, asthenia, like a blood purity, when silent, bloody urine. Outwardly for grafts in furunculaes and carbuncoules.

In traditional medicine, the decoction of the roots and infusion of grass chicory is used inward as a means that increases appetite and metabolism, with a general decline in forces, jaundice, hepatitis, biliary disease, hypathicidal gastritis, ulcer of stomach, diarrhea, urinary incontinence, with allergies, eczema, furunculose , jade, diabetes.

The baths from the grass are used in the treatment of gold. The decoction of the roots is used in warm form for rinsing the oral cavity, when the tart! / І, stomatitis, for rinsing the throat with angina, applied to the sore joints when gougr. Herb grass, mixed with sour cream, rubbed fresh juice and cashem cooked from the above-ground part of the plant with eczema, are also used in the treatment of wet eczema, skin rashes, eels and furunculese.

In modern medicine, simple galenic and non-generic drugs from different parts of the chicory of ordinary are widely used as a choleretic, wound-healing, anti-inflammatory agent, stimulator of gastric secretion. The choleretic action of the plant is associated with the presence of phenolic compounds. Comparative study of the choleretic effect of the total crude preparation from the above-ground part of the plant, the purified amount of phenolic compounds of the above-ground part of the plants and the total drug from the roots showed that all three drugs increase the secretion of the bile, the content of paired bile acids, and the total neutrality of the plant in the above-ground part of the plant exhibits the greatest activity ( Acts for 3 hours with a bope consumption by 40%).

The purified drug is valid for 3 hours, and the total drug from the roots increases the secretion of bile in the range of 5% briefly.

Fresh grass juice and chicory grass infusion lower blood sugar levels show a thyaretic effect. Installed (Yu. N. Nuraliev, 1984) that the dry extract from the roots of the chicory of the ordinary in a dose of 50 mg / kg of weight with intragastricular administration has a pronounced sucroppy property. At 15, especially at a 40-day course of treatment, chicory extract causes a clear hypoglycemic effect that promotes the recovery of animals with experimental diabetes. The mechanism of antidiabetic action of chicory, apparently, is associated with its protective effect on the membrane structures of beta cells of the islands of the pancreatic Langerhans. In the manifestation of the membrane-proof of chicory, its anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and antitoxic properties play a leading role. The antidiabetic effect of chicory in combination with its anti-inflammatory, antitoxic and wound-healing properties makes it a natural, almost non-toxic agent is very promising in the therapy of sugar diabetes of light and medium severity.

According to the outstanding Armenian Physician Amimirlace Amasiatsi (XV century), the wild chicory in all respects is stronger than the garden. Its juice helps with a watering, clogging of the liver and bites of animals, scorpions, bees and snakes. If his juice is mixed with olive oil and drink, he will be an antidote from all sorts of poisons. If you have a drink, it will strengthen the heart, and if its milky juice is dried into the eye, it will bring Belmo. If his decoction is to drink with vinegar and honey, he will open the blockage, bring moldy moisture and will help with protracted fever. Chicory causes the formation of a good chimus. Cicorals in France is considered a secondary plant and is used as a gastric and toning agent. In Bulgaria, the root of chicory is used in the form of infusion of 2 teaspoons of a crushed root for 1 glass of boiling water (daily dose), with diseases of the liver, jaundice, with an increase in the spleen, with stones in the bustling bubble, with kidney diseases, externally - with skin rashes, furunculaes , Carbuncoules.

In folk medicine, Bulgaria, the roots of chicory are used in the form of a decoction as a means for exciting the function of the digestive system, against malaria, liver disease, with jaundice, ulcer of the stomach, as an urgent remedy for angina, inflammation of the respiratory organs, with difficulty urinary, and externally - for the treatment of chiriev And edema, prepared for this Cashitz.

Austria medicine uses roots as a diuretic tool that increases appetite, contributing to a better digestion of food, with gastritis, in the form of a decoction, extract and pressed tablets. In Germany, Gastritis, Gastroenteritis, biliary disease are treated in Germany. Apply with nephritis, urinary incontinence, hemorrhoids.

Roots and chicory leaves have an edible value. Burnt leaves of cultural chicory are used for high flavoring salads and are valuable in the diet of diabetes patients. Young shoots can be boiled, stew, fry, cook and bake in the dough. In addition to the chicory of ordinary, the chicory of the Salad is cultivated, from which the roots of chicory are grown. In the fall, they are cleaned and stored until winter, and then grown in greenhouses or greenhouses. Water and sprinkled on top of a layer of sand up to 20 cm. A month later, white-colored kochannels grow in the ground, the leaves of their juicy and gentle. We eat in the cheese or after thermal processing. It is twisted it boiled or stewed with mayonnaise, meat, butter.

Rhizome chicory grown in culture is mainly used for a substitute for coffee.

The advantage of chicory as a coffee substitute is that due to the lack of caffeine does not have an exciting action on the nervous and cardiovascular system. Therefore, drinks with chicory, including soluble chicory, are recommended to those who are contraindicated natural coffee or strong tea, namely: in cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, insomnia, allergic and some other diseases. Inulin chicory is consumed in food in the form of a syrup or fruit sugar.

Methods of cooking and applications:

1. 1 tablespoon of chopped root per 1 glass of boiling water, insist 2 hours, strain. Take 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day before meals for improving appetite, with gastritis, enterocolite, ulcer of the stomach and as a diuretic.

2. 4 tablespoons of a mixture of crushed rhizomes and an overhead part of 1 glass of boiling water, boil 5 minutes, insist for 1 hour, strain. Use externally for the treatment of skin rashes, acne, furunculus, purulent wounds and eczema. Use for baths during diathesis in children, rims and wickers. The procedure is repeated 2-3 times a day. Bath take overnight.

3. Fresh juice from shoots in the layout stage of 1 teaspoon on 1/2 cup of milk, take 3-4 times a day for 1-1.5 months.

4. Pillows from planing grass are applied to inflamed places 2 times a day with intense inflammatory processes.

5. 2 tablespoons in equal amounts of a mixture of herbs of the sandmaker of sandy, grass "Hypericum of the reinforced, shepherd bags, cornflowers, medicine initiatives, chicory of an ordinary 0.5 liter boiling water, insist 2 hours, strain. Take 1/3-1 / 2 glasses 3 times a day before meals with hepatitis, cholecystitis, typical disease.

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Diseases and impact:chronic cholecystitis, lung inflammation, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, sluggish digestion, liver cirrhosis, jaundice, spleen swelling, constipation, hysteria, toothaches, gastritis, enterocolites, colitis, kidney disease, ration, general overwork, anemia, lemph node tumors.

Active substances:inulin, bitter glycoside inthibin, glycoside chicarin, bitter substances, lactukopicrin, lactacin.

Plant collection and harvesting time: June - October.

Botanical description of the chicory of ordinary

Perennial herbaceous plant height 30-150 cm family COMPOSITAE).

Rhizome Thickened beliefobid.

Stem ramified.

Leaves roasting surplus-peristributal; Stem Leaves Lancelovoids, Ostrodular, Skeleton, are arranged alternately; The top leaves are solid.

Baskets Sitting, single or two or three are located.

Flowers Blue, less often, even less often - pink.

Flowers in June-September.

The spread of chicory ordinary

It grows along the edges of the roads, at the ditch, on the interzhah, slopes. The plant is common in all territories of the CIS.

Preparation of raw materials chicory

With therapeutic goal during flowering, leaves and flowers are collected, roots - in autumn or early spring.

Effective substances of chicory

In the underground parts of the plant contains a lot of inulin, bitter glycoside inthibin and other substances. In the flowers detected glycoside chipyrine.

Bitter substances contained in stems and leaves received the names of lactukopicrin and lactacin (Makhlajuk, 1967).

Application of chicory for therapeutic purposes

Fresh leaves are used to prepare salad in chronic cholecystitis, surrogate coffee is prepared from the roots - it acts choleretically, favors digestion.

Used in the form tea With inflammation of the lungs, in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, with sluggish digestion, to enhance the appetite; and most importantly - with liver cirrhosis, jaundice; Also at the edema of the spleen, constipation, hysteria, with scholars, dental pain. 1 cup of water takes 1 teaspoon of root and chicory leaves and boiled for 10 minutes; Take 1 glasses 2 times a day with small sips.

Water infusion of flowers chicory Soothes the central nervous system and enhances the power of heart abbreviations, diurely under the edema of cardiac origin.

Decoration of chicory Widely used in gastritis with increased secretory function, enterocolites and colitis. 20 g root or herbs chicory for 1 cup of water, boil no more than 2-3 minutes, insist for 15-20 minutes, take 2 tbsp. Spoons 3 times a day.

With kidney diseases, queing, general overwork, Malokrovia - fresh juice chicory Take 1 tbsp. A spoon on a glass of milk 3 times a day for 4-6 weeks, after a weekly break the course is repeated.

In tumors of lymph nodes, with abdominal pains due to the inflammatory process in the stomach, the intestines are applied compresses From the beam or fresh leaves of the plant.

With severe muscular overwork rubbed sick places alcohol tincture of chicory (The ratio of raw materials to the base is 1: 10 on a 70% alcohol, insist for 14 days in a dark cooler place).

Chicory in history and mythology

In Russia, the chicory was called "Petrov Batog". There are two versions of the legend associated with the appearance of this name. At one of them, the apostle Peter used him as a twig for his sheep. On the other, Petr slears the pests insect pests from bread bumps, after which he threw them on the side of the field. From these twigs and grew chicory. Because it grows, it has grown near the roads.

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Ordinary chicory (Lat. Cichorium intybus.) - a perennial grassy plant of the Astrov family ( AsteracEae.).

Description

Botanical illustration of the book O. V. Tome Flora Von Deutschland, Österreich und Der Schweiz », 1885

Inflorescence

A perennial grassy plant, green or sisovato-green, with thickened (in the upper part 3-4 cm in diameter) with a multi-porcelain-like fleshy root with a length of 1.5 m. All parts of the plant contain milky juice. Stem is a single reprehensive, 15-150 cm high, covered with rare bristly or curly hairs, often naked or almost naked, often with strongly rejected on the sides and somewhat thicker to the top branches.

The leaves are regular, from the bottom side is usually pubescent, from the upper side of curly hair. The root leaves are collected in a rosette, peristraized, along the edge of the gear, to the base, gradually narrowed into the winged petiole, are usually preserved during the flowering of the plant; Stems (except the lowest, similar to roasting) - relatively few, regular, oscillate, seating, top leaves lanceal, whole.

Baskets on short blooms, single or crowded, located several on the tops of the stem, its side branches and in the sinuses of the upper and medium stem leaves. Wrapper 8-14 mm long; their internal leaflets are linear, usually hairy or eyelashes; Outdoor - ovate-lanceal, sharp, 1.5-2 times shorter internal, unequal length and shape, on the edges of the faceted, outside also often with simple or glazed hairs, often completely naked. Flowers of 15-25 mm flowers long, tongue flowers, rim, blue, pink-blue or blue, rarely white, usually longer wrapper.

The fruit is a prismatic, non-wedge-shaped form of a semyon, 2-3 mm long, with a short tank, 0.2-0.3 mm long.

Chemical composition

Roots contain choline, bitterness of lactacin, lactukopicrin, pectin, cyhorine glycosides, inthibin (glying roots and bitter taste), inulin (up to 49%, in culture up to 60-65%), silicic acid, tanning substances, taaraxosterol, sugar (prevails fructose), thiamine, ascorbic acid. In flower - crystalline glycoside of chicory; in seeds - up to 28% of oily oil; In young leaves - carotene (up to 80 mg%), ascorbic acid, inulin, potassium salts.

Spread

General distribution: Almost all Europe (with the exception of the northern regions), North Africa, Front and Central Asia, Iran, Western provinces of China; As a communal plant - in South Africa, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. In Russia - in the European part, in the Caucasus and in Siberia.

Normally in all natural administrative regions of the Saratov Rights Bank. Everywhere meets in the Rtishchevsky district.

Boris Aleksandrovich Keller in the summer of 1901 during his botanic-geographical research in the Serdetsky district at the vapor field near the Rtishchevo Ruzh station, aside from her to the village of Ivanovka to the young deposit and on the slope of the ravine between Rtishchevo and Ivanovka.

Features of biology and ecology

Grows on sampling and drum dry and fresh soils, in the meadows, forest glades, grassy slopes and on the slopes of ravines, among shrubs, on ducts, often as a weed plant on roadside roads, in the fields, near settlements; In the mountains to the middle mountain belt. Transfers significant soil seal and temporary lack of moisture.

Flowers in June - August. Fruits ripen in August - September. One plant gives from 3,000 to 25,000 seeds that retain to 7 years old. Protects seeds and vegetatively from the rod root.

Economic importance and application

In medicine

From a long time, chicory is a medicinal plant. The well-known scientist and doctor of the Middle Ages Avicenna widely used the preparations of chicory in the treatment of a number of diseases, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, eye inflammation. He existed to apply in the form of an armband on sore joints when goug. The doctors of ancient Egypt and Rome used chicory during rashes and furuncoolose, with violations of the urinary, as well as in blood diseases.

Drug raw materials serves the entire plant. The roots are harvested in autumn (in September - October), when the rosette of the roasting leaves begins to fade, the above-ground part is during flowering.

Chicory ordinary is used mainly in folk medicine. Preparations of chicory have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, soothing, diuretic, binders and exciting appetite by action. They have a regulatory effect on metabolism, somewhat enhance cardiac activity and reduce sweating. The greatest recognition of chicory conquered in the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. The decoction is prescribed with inflammatory diseases of the mucous membrane of the stomach, thin and colon, liver, gallbladder and kidneys, as well as with gall and renal diseases.

Chicory improves digestion, eliminates the unpleasant sensations in the region of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and spleen, increases appetite, reduces the sugar content in the urine, reduces the increased nervous excitability. Cycium preparations are used as a general focusing agent and at heart origin. When anemia is prescribed fresh juice plants. The powder from the elevated part of the plant is included in the complex preparation of Liv-52.

In other areas

Chicory (root) soluble powdered

The chicory ordinary was introduced into the culture in the Mediterranean, was grown in ancient Rome. In Russia, the first plantations of chicory were laid in the vicinity of Yaroslavl in the year. In the USSR, the culture of chicory was distributed in Belarus, the Baltic republics, in Ukraine and in the Yaroslavl region of the RSFSR.

Roasted root corneters of the cultivated form of this species are widely used for the manufacture of coffee surrogate ("chicory"). In Latvia, the root is added to coffee, a cold drink with honey, apple juice and lemon is prepared from it, in Estonia - egg coffee. Chicories are also used when producing natural coffee, coffee and tea drinks, giving them a specific taste, aroma and painting. Roots can be a source of inulin, fructose, used to produce sugar and alcohol (the output of the alcohol from chicory is higher than from potatoes, and its quality is better). Chicory is especially valued in diabetic dietary nutrition. Widely used in the food industry in the production of candies and cakes.

Fresh leaves are edible and can be used as a salad. Salad grades of chicory with a high content of ascorbic acid are derived. Young shoots are boiled, fry, rush in the test. In European countries, leaf chicory (vitlug) are grown. It is added to salads, side dishes to fried, steam, steam and baked fish, in the soup of raw.

Good honey, in wet weather and during rainy flowers highlight a lot of blue in color nectar. C 1 hectares of chicory are obtained up to 100 kg of honey.

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