? Lemon is also known as Yi, Yi,,,, and Li Mengzi. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lemon can promote fluid production to quench thirst, dispel summer heat, harmonize stomach, reduce adverse reactions, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Chinese medicine lemon has an evaluation: "It tastes sour, sweet and cool. It can promote the production of body fluid to relieve summer heat, regulate stomach and prevent miscarriage, and is mainly used for treating stomach heat, body fluid injury, heatstroke, polydipsia, anorexia, abdominal distension, lung dryness, cough and vomiting during pregnancy.

Lemon soaked in water, fragrant, sour and refreshing, cheap and healthy, is deeply loved by people, especially women, and likes to drink lemonade in daily life. What are the benefits?

1. Beauty and anti-aging

Women often drink lemonade, which can better maintain their face value and make their skin whiter. This is because lemon is rich in nutrition and can provide all kinds of vitamins needed by the skin. Modern research shows that lemon contains carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, zinc, B vitamins, vitamin C, citric acid, malic acid, nicotinic acid and other nutrients. Therefore, drinking lemonade often is undoubtedly beneficial to beauty and anti-aging.

2. Promote uric acid excretion

Lemons taste acidic. Like most other fruits and vegetables, it is actually an alkaline food. Because potassium and calcium ions in lemon can combine with acidic ions and reduce the acidity of urine, it is called "alkaline food". The decrease of urine acidity is beneficial to uric acid excretion, thus preventing gout attack.

Prevent kidney calculi.

Some people worry that citric acid and calcium in the body will form stones, but they will not. Calcium citrate is slightly soluble in water and can be directly absorbed by human body. Unlike oxalic acid, citric acid is beneficial to the absorption of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc in food. Studies have proved that citric acid can prevent the formation of kidney calculi.