Chinese medicine believes that lemon is warm, bitter and nontoxic, and has the functions of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, dispelling summer heat, preventing miscarriage, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, invigorating stomach and spleen, relieving pain and sterilizing. Eating lemon fruit or drinking lemon juice can dissolve food and detoxify alcohol.
Enhance brain power:
According to medical reports, due to the deterioration of blood circulation function, blood circulation in the brain is blocked, which hinders the normal work of brain cells and causes memory decline. Lemon contains antioxidant water-soluble vitamin C, which can effectively improve the problem of poor blood circulation. Therefore, eating lemons every day helps to strengthen memory and improve the flexibility of thinking and reaction.
Eliminate fatigue and foot pain:
Lemon is also helpful in muscle soreness. Only rubbing a lemon on the sore part can relieve fatigue. If your feet are sour, you can soak your feet with lemon juice in a pot of hot water. The effect is wonderful.
Enhance resistance:
It contains a lot of vitamin C and citric acid, which can help digestion, promote hematopoietic function, improve the body's resistance and accelerate the recovery of trauma.
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and lowering blood sugar;
Citric acid combines with calcium ions to form soluble complexes, which can reduce the procoagulant effect of calcium ions and prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction. Citric acid can contract and strengthen capillaries, reduce permeability, improve coagulation function and platelet number, shorten coagulation time and bleeding time by 365,438+0% ~ 765,438+0%, and has hemostatic effect.
Vitamin P contained in lemon peel can prevent the development of human angiosclerosis and is very beneficial to improve the symptoms of hypertension and myocardial infarction. The method is simple. Take 1 lemon and 10 water chestnut and decoct them with water.
Green lemon can lower blood pressure and cholesterol and improve cardiovascular disease. Like grapefruit, it contains an insulin-like ingredient that can lower blood sugar.
Disinfection:
Lemon contains nicotinic acid and rich organic acids, and tastes extremely sour. Citric acid juice has a strong bactericidal effect. Experiments show that lemon juice with strong acidity can kill all bacteria in marine shells within 15 minutes.
Promote digestion:
Lemon can also promote the secretion of proteolytic enzymes in the stomach and increase gastrointestinal peristalsis. It can be used to make cold dishes and pickled foods instead of vinegar in daily life.
Anti-inflammatory:
Hesperidin and naringin contained in lemon have anti-inflammatory effects. However, intraperitoneal injection of geraniol from lemon peel has anti-inflammatory effect on paw edema induced by carrageenan in rats.
Treating wind-heat cold:
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which has many functions, such as antibacterial effect, immune effect, assisting the generation of bone collagen and so on. At ordinary times, you can drink more hot lemonade to maintain your health and supplement vitamin C. Drinking 500 to 1000cc every day can reduce runny nose when you have a cold, and the cold will spread quickly, especially when you have just caught a cold, and you can even recover without taking medicine. In addition to resisting bacteria and enhancing immunity, it also has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and relieving summer heat, so it is more suitable for wind-heat or summer heat colds.
Prevention and control in kidney calculi;
Lemon juice contains a lot of citrate, in which potassium citrate can inhibit the crystallization of calcium salt, thus preventing the formation of kidney calculi, and even the formed stones can be dissolved. Therefore, eating lemon can prevent and treat kidney calculi's disease and reduce stones in some patients with chronic kidney calculi.
Resolving phlegm:
What is less well known is that lemon can also expectorate, and the expectorant effect is stronger than that of oranges and citrus. Add warm water and salt to lemon juice, drink it and cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in your throat. It is very effective. At the beginning of a cold, you might as well wash it with lemon and honey, which can relieve sore throat and relieve the discomfort of dry throat.
Calcium supplements:
Lemon peel is also rich in calcium, so in order to achieve the desired effect, it is best to squeeze juice from the peel, which is the most nutritious.
Treating rheumatism:
Lemon juice also has a good effect on rheumatism.
Prevention of scurvy:
Lemon contains a lot of vitamin C, which is a panacea to prevent scurvy. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, scurvy caused by vitamin C deficiency occurred among British seafarers, and about 10000 people died successively. Medical research departments have found through research and experiments that vitamin C in lemon can treat scurvy, and sailors will not suffer from scurvy as long as they consume a certain amount of lemon juice. Since then, the British authorities have stipulated that seafarers drink 1 cup of lemon juice every day, and ships with insufficient lemon are not allowed to sail.
Prevention of AIDS:
Lemon juice may become the AIDS killer that scientists all over the world are trying to find.
Roger Short, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Royal Women's Hospital of Melbourne University, found that lemon juice can kill HIV in test tubes, which brought hope for women to prevent HIV infection. "If clinical trials prove that lemon juice is suitable, safe and effective in vagina, then it may become a natural disinfectant." Short found in laboratory tests that the lemon solution with the concentration of 10% reduced the replication of HIV by two-thirds, while the solution with the concentration of 20% killed 90% of the virus, and the solution with higher concentration showed signs of toxicity. Although this is a promising experimental result, it is quite difficult to study it further.
Pregnancy antiemesis:
Pregnant women can put some lemons beside the bed and get up in the morning to smell them, which can eliminate morning sickness.
Gynecological diseases:
Studies have shown that lemon can improve uterine anteversion, uterine ligament prolapse and even amenorrhea.
Fever:
According to the Health Times, one day, Ms. Xu's 5-year-old son had a high fever with a temperature of nearly 40℃. In desperation, I used lemon hot compress socks.
Squeeze out the lemon juice, heat it, soak a pair of cotton socks worn by adults in the lemon juice, take them out and dry them a little. After rubbing your child's feet, put them as high as possible and wrap them in a blanket to keep warm. Cotton socks are very cold. Take it off and do it every hour or two. The body temperature dropped by 65438 0℃ within 20 minutes, and slowly dropped after the second application for 30 ~ 40 minutes. If there is no lemon, you can use vinegar instead.