Inflammation of the pancreas is called pancreatitis. This is a serious enough disease, and if it is not treated, it can lead to irreversible consequences.
Pancreatitis can occur with chronic cholecystitis, alcohol abuse, or fatty and fried foods.
There are two forms of the disease - acute, which is accompanied by severe pain, and chronic, during which the organ is simply slowly destroyed.
Treatment of such a disease includes drug therapy, an obligatory diet. In addition, traditional medicine is also used, many of which produce positive results.
One such means is chicory.
What's this?
Chicory is a perennial plant, the root of which is used as a substitute for coffee. It contains a huge amount of vitamins and microelements, which are necessary for the human body.
Useful properties
This plant has a huge number of useful properties. For example:
- It contains a substance such as inulin( and in the season at the root of this flower, its content reaches 75%), which favorably affects the gastrointestinal tract, helps cope with constipation and reduces the amount of cholesterol in the body.
- Chicory has a choleretic property. He dissolves stones in the gallbladder and helps them to get out.
- When receiving decoctions or infusions from this plant, the metabolism is normalized, which helps to reduce weight.
- Reduces the amount of glucose in the blood, which allows the pancreas to produce less insulin. And this means that the load on it decreases.
- This plant has a beneficial effect on the cardiac and nervous system.
- Because it contains iron, it improves hematopoiesis.
As you can see the benefit of this plant brings a lot.
Disadvantages of
But it's worth remembering that this plant can do harm as well as good. It can not be used with:
- dilated veins and hemorrhoids;
- peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.
Otherwise, you can aggravate these diseases.
Is it possible to
Many people are interested in the question, but is it possible to drink chicory in pancreatitis? Here it is worth paying attention to what kind of disease a person has.
So, for example, with acute pancreatitis, the answer to this question will be categorical "no."The fact is that chicory has a choleretic effect, and in the acute period this can adversely affect the inflamed pancreas .Therefore, it is worth to abandon the products, which make up this plant, during this period.
But after a couple of months, when there is a persistent remission, you can safely eat chicory in pancreatitis.
How to drink?
Currently, ready-made chicory powder can be bought in almost any store. But at the same time, you should carefully read the information on the packaging and try to choose the product that does not contain harmful substances. In addition, the finished powder can often be seen in pharmacies.
There you can also buy the root of chicory. In this case, the powder can be cooked by hand. This is more difficult, but it will be accurately known about the naturalness of the finished product.
Recipes for
There are many different ways of making drinks, using chicory. Here they are:
The simplest recipe is the preparation of a useful drink from a ready-made powder. To do this, a teaspoon of chicory should be filled with half a glass of boiling water, add milk there. You can drink this drink instead of coffee and tea.
You can make the next drink. It is necessary to take the root of chicory, grind it and fry it. Then about 20 gr. Powder should be poured a glass of water, after which the container should be placed on the fire. After the broth boils, you need to cook it for about 10 minutes. Drink this remedy for one tablespoon 15 minutes before eating.
Chicory is also made tincture. To do this, 2 tablespoons of the finished powder is added to 100 ml of pure alcohol. The container with a solution is put in a dark place for about a couple of weeks to let it brew. When the tincture is ready, you can drink it twenty drops three times a day. At the same time, it is washed down with a glass of water and half a teaspoon of honey.
And you can make a decoction of the medicinal collection. It is necessary to take in equal parts chicory, elecampane, dandelion and burdock. One teaspoon of the mixture is poured into a glass of water. Then leave the mixture for eight hours so that it is infused. Drink this remedy three times a day before meals.
There are a lot of recipes, you can search the Internet for a variety of ways of brewing this useful plant. Chicory in pancreatitis is a very useful remedy.
Chicory for cholecystitis
Cholecystitis is often the reason that pancreatitis develops. Drink chicory in this disease can be, since it has a choleretic effect and dissolves stones in the gallbladder. However, it also happens that he can not dissolve stones, but provoke plugging of ducts. Therefore, before you start drinking chicory, it is worth consulting with a doctor. Otherwise, you can cause more damage to the body.
This concerns not only cholecystitis. If a person has problems with the pancreas and has been prescribed certain medication, then before using chicory, one should always consult with specialists to avoid side effects. In addition, do not abuse this tool and hope that it will save you from all diseases. This is a beautiful plant, but it should be used only as an addition to the basic treatment.
