DIETETIC COFFEE SUBSTITUTE

摘要

The substitute is used as a tonicizing drink and prophylactic agent for patients with gastritis and ulcers, as well as for people having cardiovascular, gall-and-liver and nephric problems, neurosis, hypertension, for pregnant and nursing mothers. The herbs and vegetative products containing it have gastric and duodenal protective effect and antiacidic properties. The drink by taste and aroma is very near to natural coffee which makes it more attractive to the consumer. The substitute contained overroasted and ground barley grains, mucous-type herbs such as lungwort, mullein, mallow, wide-leaf plantein, St John's wort, medicinal herbs containing bitter substances: gentian and hop, and inulin such as mullein and chickory roots, as well as vegetation products accelerating the evacuation of the stomach: barley and alfalfa./!