Café et santé

Coffee and health
Enter of ignominious charges (that to provoke the impotence, for example) and of excessive praises (it would cure the smallpox, the scurvy, the drop), the coffee in for a long time aroused by the debates as for its effects on the health. We know how to measure today better the properties of its main constituent, the caffeine. If its effects are very variable according to the individuals, it is acquired that this alkaloid stimulates the nervous system, also indeed the functions intellectual as muscular.
Also acting on the circulatory system, the caffeine is used for a long time to fight the migraine.
Its vasodilator role also makes it advise in the case of certain diseases of the heart. Diuretic and facilitating the digestion, the coffee is recommended in case of disorders of the urinary or digestive functions.

An excessive consumption of coffee can provoke on the other hand more or less grave nervous disorders, going of the insomnia, in the cardiac arrhythmia, by way of the irritability and the anxiety.