Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a herb which promotes digestion and increases appetite. If you have decided to gain weight healthy you should drink chicory tea in order to restore your appetite.
In addition to these therapeutic properties, chicory is considered an excellent remedy because it is:
laxative, diuretic,
disinfectant and astringent.
Also, chicory purifies the blood, removes toxins, stimulated the liver and has a hypoglycemia action.
In preparing chicory natural products roots and plant are used. In the past, chicory was used to treat:
- wound (compresses with chicory fresh leaves)
- headache
- abdominal pain (chicory tea)
- eye problems (chicory decoction).
Chicory represents also a natural remedy and treatment for the next diseases:
constipation, anemia
fatigue, depression
furunculosis, gallstones and kidney stones
urinary tract infections, biliary dyskinesia
chronic hepatitis, chronic rheumatism.
Also acne can be treated with chicory mixed with other herbs. Thus, the tea from chicory, burdock roots (Arctium lappa) and heartsease (Viola tricolor) must be drunk daily, so acne will be cured.
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