{"id":3795,"date":"2018-06-25T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2018-06-21T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T08:51:29","slug":"a-few-words-about-the-artichoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/a-few-words-about-the-artichoke\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words about the artichoke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Artichoke<\/strong> is a plant with nutritional value and curative properties that <strong>herbs<\/strong> would envy! This is a unique plant, all of which, from root to flower is therapeutic, with the sole exception of raw leaves that the milk inside has a toxicity that causes skin and digestive irritations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The nutritional value of the artichoke is due to the many vitamins, minerals and trace elements such as <strong>iron<\/strong>, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorous, enzymes, tannin, protein substances, while it&#8217;s a food poor in carbohydrates, which makes it a <strong>food ideal for diabetics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a perennial edible plant, belonging to the Asteraceae family, reaching about 1.5 meters hight and is a particular bush. Depending on the variety of artichoke if it is late or early, you will find it all year round except July, August and September.<\/p>\n<p>The wild artichoke, a vegetable with the same properties as artichoke but with greater therapeutic and nutritional value, did not take long to be known for its healing action in Greece since antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>The forms you can consume are many as you can infuse leaves, make a decoction or tincture of the root and hard shoots, and of course a delicious meal from the artichoke&#8217;s heads.<\/p>\n<p>Characteristic is the shape of the foliage of the artichoke with open greenish leaves large and fluffy, while the fruit is heart-shaped and the flower of the artichoke has an impressive purple color. The root is hard and deep and the stem is resistant.<\/p>\n<p>The medicinal properties of the artichoke are particularly sensitive to temperature, which means that the infusion and preparation of cold tincture are the best forms of use for therapeutic purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artichoke is a plant with nutritional value and curative properties that herbs would envy! This is a unique plant, all of which, from root to flower is therapeutic, with the sole exception of raw leaves that the milk inside has a toxicity that causes skin and digestive irritations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2339],"tags":[3463,1794,1307,3404],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recogida-de-hierbas","tag-artichoke","tag-herbs","tag-herbs-collection-2","tag-herbs-nutritional-value"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botanologio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}