What are the benefits of drinking chicory root soaked in water?

Chicory, also known as bitter vegetable and goose vegetable, is a relatively common vegetable and is also quite common in our daily life. It can be eaten as a cold dish, or used to scramble eggs, etc. Chicory is good for the human body. It can effectively improve the body's immunity, clear away heat and relieve fire, etc. The root of chicory is actually a treasure. Here we will introduce the benefits of drinking chicory root soaked in water.

effect:

1. Lowering uric acid

Modern medical research has found that chicory extract has the function of regulating blood lipids and lowering uric acid, and has a good regulatory effect on hyperuricemia and hypertriglyceridemia. The effective components of chicory can significantly reduce the increase of serum triglycerides, uric acid and blood sugar caused by hyperglycemia, and comprehensively regulate the interactive disorder of lipids, sugars and uric acid. It has the dual effects of inhibiting uric acid production in animals with hyperuricemia and promoting uric acid excretion. It has the effect of lowering uric acid and blood sugar, and the effect is long-lasting and stable.

People with gout or high uric acid levels can take 5-10g of chicory root each time, add hot water to soak and drink as tea, 2-3 times a day. If you persist for a month, you can lower uric acid and reduce the occurrence of gout.

2. Clear away heat and detoxify

Chicory root is slightly bitter, salty and cool in nature. Its pharmacological activities include liver protection, antibacterial, hypoglycemic, anti-inflammatory, lipid-regulating, uric acid-lowering, analgesic, wound healing, and immunity enhancement. It is mainly used to clear away heat and detoxify, treat edema caused by nephritis, abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, and strengthen the stomach.

3. Protect liver

The liver likes "bitter taste", so drinking water with dandelion and chicory root is beneficial to liver health. Dandelion enters the liver meridian, has excellent liver cleansing and enhancing effects, is beneficial to the liver and gallbladder, can eliminate liver toxins, and prevent liver damage; chicory root is rich in various nutrients, can accelerate the synthesis of phospholipids and the presence of bile acid, thereby accelerating the speed of cell repair, and has a significant effect in protecting the liver.

Medicinal value of chicory root

1. Clinically, it is often used in combination with red vine, coix seed, peach kernel, moutan bark, rhubarb, etc. to treat intestinal abscess (acute appendicitis); and in combination with houttuynia cordata, platycodon, coix seed, wax gourd seed, reed root, etc. to treat lung abscess (lung abscess).

2. Use it in combination with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc. to treat sores, carbuncles and swellings. At the same time, mash the fresh grass of this product for external application.

3. Combined with safflower, hawthorn and other drugs, it can treat postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

4. It can be used together with Houttuynia cordata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Coix seed, wax gourd seed, and reed root to treat lung abscess (lung abscess).

5. Combined with dandelion and honeysuckle, it can be used to treat acute conjunctivitis and conjunctival congestion and swelling; combined with Artemisia capillaris and Gardenia jasminoides, it can be used to treat acute icteric hepatitis.

6. Used for intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle and sores. This product is pungent and can disperse stagnation, and can relieve heat in cold. In clinical practice, it is often used in combination with red vine, coix seed, peach kernel, moutan bark, rhubarb, honeysuckle, forsythia, etc. to treat sores, carbuncles and swellings. At the same time, the fresh grass of this product is mashed and applied externally.

7. It is used for chest and abdominal pain caused by excess heat and blood stasis, and abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood stasis. Patrinia salsa has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It can be used with safflower, hawthorn and other drugs to treat postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain and other symptoms.