The Artichoke was already appreciated as a diuretic - and aphrodisiac - in the XVI century and considered in a number of ways in the XVIII century as specific treatment of the jandice. However your therapeutic fame owes essentially to several doctors jobs in the beginning of the XX century, which demonstrated your importance in hepatobiliaries affections.

In the plant, it should distinguish itself the flower, edible part, for great dimensions chapter of which consumes in culinary the fleshy receptacle and bract improperly leaves, and the wide and jagged leaf, united to the stem, which is the part used in medicine. It's a food to be consumed by the diabetics, above all raw. After cooked, the artichoke changes very much and produce toxins, owing for so much being consumed soon after cooking. Anyway is less indigestible if submitted for a fast cooking. Your action prejudict the milk secretion, thence your comsumption be against nominated during the lactation.