Lemon leaves contain some organic acids and minerals that are beneficial to human body. Lemon leaves soaked in water for a long time are actually very helpful to human health. Pay attention to the hygiene of leaves before soaking in water. After cleaning the leaves, soak them in clear water and drink plenty of water, which will help us detoxify.

Lemon leaves have the main function of appetizing. Soaking lemon leaves in water can effectively promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help clean up the stomach.

Lemon leaves can be used to extract spices, and fresh lemon peel can produce lemon essential oil, which is an important raw material for producing high-grade cosmetics. Fruit embryo can also produce pectin and hesperidin. Pectin is not only an important raw material for producing high-grade candy, preserves and jam.

Fruit juice extracted from fruit embryo can be used to produce high-grade beverage and high-grade fruit wine. Fruit residue can be used as feed or fertilizer; Seeds can be extracted from high-grade edible oil or used as medicine. Therefore, lemon is a treasure all over the body and is an important raw material for processing green products.

Extended data:

Lemon leaf, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Lemons are grown in Guangdong. Has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, regulating qi and regulating stomach, and stopping diarrhea. Commonly used for cough, asthma, excessive phlegm, qi stagnation, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

Medicinal parts: leaves.

Taste: pungent, sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm.

Meridian tropism: meridian tropism of lung, stomach and large intestine.

Efficacy: resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating qi and stomach, and stopping diarrhea.

Indications: Used for cough, asthma, excessive phlegm, qi stagnation, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

Lemon is also known as chestnut tree, lemon and Guangdong lime. Evergreen shrubs with hard spines. Leaves alternate, petiole short, with narrow wings and nodes at the top. Leaf blade small, oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex short, acute or obtuse, margin with obtuse serrations.

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, quinic acid, citric acid, malic acid, hesperidin, naringin, coumarin, high potassium and low sodium, etc. It is very beneficial to the human body. Vitamin C can maintain the formation of various tissues and intercellular substance in human body and maintain its normal physiological function.

Matrix, adhesion and colloid formation in human body need vitamin C for protection. When vitamin C is deficient, the intercellular substance-colloid is also less. In this way, cells will become brittle and lose the ability to resist external forces, and the human body is prone to sepsis. It has many uses, such as preventing colds, stimulating hematopoiesis and fighting cancer.

Main records:

1, Notes on the nature and taste of raw medicinal materials: "pungent, warm in nature."

2, "Materia Medica Seeking the Original": "Xin, Gan, Wen."

3, "Materia Medica": "Fever, cough and phlegm, appetizing. Cut the fish and eat it raw. Very good. "

4, "Materia Medica Seeking the Original": "Cough, phlegm, qi."

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