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Packaging: 100 grams in a convenient plastic tray.

Packaging: 100 grams in a convenient plastic tray

It is noteworthy that its intensely bitter properties, reside especially in its root, making it an appreciated digestive tonic and aperitif. The root is the main bitter tonic remedy used in folk medicine. Gentian is often used as a component of bitter tonic drinks (bitter, vermouth, Angostura bitters).

It is considered especially useful as a digestive tonic

It is considered especially useful in states of chronic disease decay and in all cases of weakness of the digestive system and lack of appetite.

It is taken orally in the treatment of liver ailments, indigestion, gastric infections and anorexia. It should not be prescribed in patients with duodenal or gastric ulcers. The taproot can be as thick as a person's arm, from which several well-developed branches grow. The root is extracted in late summer or autumn, and dried for later use

Gentian is a medicinal herb capable of stimulating the digestive glandular cells, being bacteriostatic, anti-helmintic, choleretic and cholagogue, thus acting on all digestive organs and accelerating intestinal transit. All these medicinal properties of Gentian make it a plant that stimulates the immune system by promoting the growth of the number of leukocytes or white cells of the immune system.

All these medicinal properties of Gentian make it a plant that stimulates the immune system by promoting the growth of the number of leukocytes or white cells of the immune system

At the hepatic level the gentian root has tonic or strengthening effects of liver cells, stimulating its function helps to regenerate them, besides being able to inhibit the development of viruses that can affect the organ.

Contraindications of Gentian

In huge doses it can cause headaches and gastrointestinal irritation. People with gastroduodenal ulcers should avoid it, as well as breastfeeding women because its bitter components pass into the milk and the baby may reject it