Hindaba - chicory

Essence.
Chicory can be wild or garden and has two types: broad-leaved and narrow-leaved. It is similar to lettuce, but is said to be inferior to lettuce in its properties. And in my opinion, chicory is superior to lettuce in its ability to open blockages and in its usefulness in liver blockages, although it is inferior to it in terms of “quenching” power and nutritional value.

Choice.
The healthier of the two types of chicory for the liver is the more bitter one.

Nature.
Cold at the limit of the first degree. Dried chicory is dry to the first degree, and fresh chicory is moist to the limit of the first. Garden chicory is cooler and wetter. Its bitterness sometimes intensifies in the summer, and then it acquires a slight warmth, which has no effect.

Wild chicory is less moist. This is a species called ta-rahshakuk.

Actions and properties.

Chicory opens blockages in the insides and blood vessels. It binds decently, but not very strongly. Its juice with white lead and vinegar, used in the form of an ointment, is a wonderful remedy for cooling what one wishes to cool.

Tools with joints.
A medicinal bandage from it is placed on gouty joints.

Organs of the eye.
Chicory helps with hot inflammation of the eyes, and the milky juice of wild chicory relieves eyesores.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Chicory and barley flour are used to make a medicinal bandage for heart failure, and it generally strengthens the heart. If you dissolve cassia in its juice and gargle with it, it is useful for tumors in the throat.

Nutritional organs.
Chicory calms nausea and irritated bile and strengthens the stomach. This is one of the best medicines for the stomach when a hot nature is upset.

Wild chicory is better for the stomach than garden chicory. They say that it is suitable for the nature of the liver, whatever it may be, and with a hot nature it is very useful. It is not as harmful to cold nature as all types of cold vegetables are.

Eruption organs.
If you eat chicory, especially wild chicory, with vinegar, it will block your stomach.

Fevers.
Chicory is useful for four days fever and cold fevers.

Poisons.
If you apply medicinal dressings from chicory taken with roots to the place bitten by scorpions, reptiles, wasps, snakes and gecko lizards, then it helps. It also works when mixed with oatmeal.