What is the Chinese herb chicory used for?

Chinese medicine chicory has the effect of clearing the liver and gallbladder, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, diuretic and swelling. It is recommended that patients follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the use of drugs. Chicory is mainly used for the treatment of damp-heat jaundice, stomach pain, less food, edema, urine and so on. Clinically, chicory treatment of hot shower (burning stinging pain when urinating, with urinary frequency and urgency, small abdominal traction discomfort) astringent pain, often with the diuretic lymphatic medicine money grass, psyllium with the same; treatment of damp-heat jaundice, often with the dampness of jaundice medicines Artemisia capillaris, Gardenia jasminoides, rhubarb, and so on. The adverse reactions and contraindications of chicory are not clear at present. If patients have any discomfort, please go to the regular medical institutions; if you need to use chicory, must be used under the guidance of a professional doctor.