Chicory plant is estimated from the Roman physician Galen physician called "the friend of the liver," some 1,800 years ago. A syrup of chicory, rhubarb and oatmeal was given to patients with liver disease. It was also considered useful in the treatment of a variety of other ailments. A syrup of the whole plant has been prepared with sugar and taken to cure insomnia. The fresh leaves are applied externally beaten by the healing of eye inflammation and boiled in soup to improve digestion of those with weak stomachs. An infusion of leaves was also used to reduce fever in children. A water distilled from the juice of chicory or it has been good for pregnant women and in particular to facilitate old's breasts were inflated by too much milk.
Chicory is an excellent bitter tonic for the liver and digestive tract. Recommended for loss of appetite and dyspepsia. The root is therapeutically similar to dandelion root, to support the work of the stomach and liver and cleansing the urinary tract. Chicory is also taken rheumatic diseases and gout, and milk as a laxative, particularly appropriate for a child. An infusion of leaves and flowers also aids digestion. A decoction can alleviate gallstones and kidney stones and helps produce bile.
The Egyptians treated rapid heartbeat with chicory root, and researchers have discovered digital as principles, and dried and roasted to a decrease in heart rate and amplitude. Conducted in rats indicate that chicory inulin seems very effective in promoting proprionic fermentation and improve the content of calcium in the colon. Studies of isolated frog hearts show that chicory reduces the heart rate similar to quinidine. These results show the chicory roots of the constituents may be effective for the treatment of disorders involving arrhythmias, tachycardia and fibrillation.
It is also found to significantly lower cholesterol and blood sugar. Sesquiterpene lactones found in roasted root can kill bacteria. Internally, used for diabetes, dry cough, abscesses, obstetric (the second stage of labor), and abortion (tubers), bronchial infections, thick mucus, chest tightness and pain, constipation, dry, and cancers of the lung and breast (fruit). The fruits are traditionally of soup in the winter colds and flu.
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