The biggest feature of lemon is acidity. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sour taste belongs to the liver meridian, which can promote fluid production, astringe, promote digestion and stop diarrhea, and also has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting fluid production and relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and waking stomach.
From then on, dietotherapy combined with the origin of function is suitable for diabetics who are located in subtropical areas, have a hot constitution, are obese or have high blood pressure.
At the same time, this soup is also suitable for high temperature in autumn and summer, and has a good effect on preventing and treating hypertension, myocardial infarction and skin pigmentation.
Extended data:
Vitamin C rich in lemon can improve the elasticity of capillaries, enhance the detoxification function of kidneys, and help prevent diabetic angiopathy and diabetic nephropathy.
In addition, lemon also contains a special ingredient-citron glycoside, which can greatly reduce the content of over-acidified fat in liver, kidney and blood of diabetic patients, and has the same effect as vitamin C to improve human disease resistance.
Lemon can also stabilize postprandial blood sugar, because lemon juice is an organic acid, which can change the contact area between food and human digestive enzymes and delay the gastric emptying time.
References:
People's Daily Online: Lemons can also lower blood sugar.