Medicinal value
Lemon is one of the world's most medicinal fruits, it is rich in vitamin C, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, quinic acid, citric acid, malic acid, nerolidol, naringenin, coumarin, high amount of potassium and low amount of sodium, etc, which is very beneficial to human body. Vitamin C can maintain the production of various tissues and intercellular matrix in the human body and maintain their normal physiological functions. The matrices, bonding and gliogenesis in the human body need vitamin C to protect them. When vitamin C is lacking, the interstitium between cells - the gelatinous substance - follows. As a result, cellular tissues become brittle and lose the ability to resist external forces, and the body is prone to scurvy; it also has more uses, such as the prevention of colds, stimulate hematopoiesis and anti-cancer effects.
Lemon juice is a fresh and refreshing drink, the production of which is very simple and convenient, directly from the fresh fruit press out of the juice, and then with sugar, ice, ice water, stirring can be consumed. The light sweet and sour, the fragrance straight to the spleen, people refreshing, lips and teeth. At present, lemon juice has been accepted by people all over the world.
Citric acid has the effect of preventing and eliminating skin pigmentation, women who love beauty should eat more.
Note: Lemon is usually not eaten raw, but processed into drinks or food. Such as lemon juice, lemon marmalade, lemon slices, lemon cake, etc., can play the same medicinal role, such as improving vision and dark adaptation, reduce fatigue.
Therapeutic value
The fruit of the woody plant Lemon, Ocean Lemon of the Rutaceae family. Also known as Yimeng, lemon Lemon, Yimu fruit, Rimu Zi, medicine fruit. China Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places are cultivated. It is harvested in fall and winter, and the flesh capsule is mainly taken for fresh use.
Properties: sour taste, slightly sweet, slightly cold. It can promote the production of body fluid, quench thirst, clear away heat, harmonize the stomach and reduce rebelliousness, dissolve phlegm and stop cough[2].
Reference: Containing sugar, citric acid, malic acid, hesperidin, naringin, vitamins B1, B2, C, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients.
Lemon powder to the dog infusion, can promote the concentration of the inhibitory process, so that the excitement and inhibitory process is balanced each other. Healthy people oral lemon powder 1~3g, can strengthen and improve muscle work capacity, reduce fatigue. Patients oral lemon powder 0.25~2g, can improve eyesight and dark adaptability.
Use: Used for summer heat and thirst, or stomach heat injury, thirst and drink; stomach qi disharmony, retching and less food; phlegm heat cough.
Use: Eaten raw, winnowed, decocted in soup, or pickled in salt. [2]
Annexed prescription: lemon and sugar cane juice: lemon 60g, sugar cane 250g. chopped and slightly mashed and twisted to extract the juice, take Xu Xu.
Lemon juice and sugar cane juice with, more beneficial to the stomach, quench the thirst and remove the annoyance, and the stomach to lower the reverse. Used for drinking too much alcohol, heat injury, thirst, vomiting retch less food.
Beauty
1, skin whitening
Wash a fresh lemon peeled and sliced into a wide-mouth bottle, add white wine to submerge the lemon, soak the liquid 1 night. The next day with a sterilized cotton wool dipped in soaked liquor coated face, 15 minutes after washing with warm water, 1 week after the visible face smooth white
Made of essential oils to use the effect is better.
Lemon essential oil is rich in vitamin C, especially beneficial to whitening, astringent, balanced oil secretion, treatment of acne and other oily skin symptoms.
Hermina Lemon Complex Essential Oil is specially formulated from lemon essential oil, rose essential oil, neroli essential oil, grapefruit essential oil, jojoba carrier oil, etc. Lemon essential oil and neroli essential oil are rich in VC which is an excellent ingredient for removing yellowing from the skin and lightening melanin, so you can effectively whiten your skin by taking about 5 drops of it and applying it on your face after cleaning your face.
But we need to pay special attention to: lemon essential oil has photosensitivity, after using the light will be counterproductive, so it is recommended to use before going to bed.
The lemon essential oil on the market is not directly usable, you need to buy a lot of single essential oils and carrier oils back to their own blend, it is very troublesome, and will cost a lot of money, but not as good as directly buy the efficacy of the complex essential oils cost-effective.
For example, Helmina Lemon Complex Essential Oil has lemon essential oil, rose essential oil, neroli essential oil, grapefruit essential oil, jojoba carrier oil and other precious ingredients, if you buy a single essential oil back to the mix, it is a relatively large amount of spending. And the blending of essential oils has a better effect than a single use of an essential oil effect is also good.
2, skin tightening and moisturizing
Take 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, put it into a cup, add 1 fresh chicken yolk, mix it well. Then add two tablespoons of oatmeal powder, two tablespoons of olive oil or peanut oil, mix well together into a paste. Apply every night after washing your face to form a mask, remove after 20 minutes, and then wash off with warm water. Once every night, after 1 week, can make dry, flabby, wrinkled face, become rosy and shiny.
3, moisturizing bath
Two fresh lemons, chopped with disinfectant gauze wrapped into a bag, put into the bathtub soak for 20 minutes; you can also use half a tablespoon of lemon oil instead of, and then into the lukewarm water to 38 ° C - 40 ° C, for the bath, about 10 minutes to wash, help remove sweat, odor, oil, moisturize the skin all over the body. The palms of the feet with thick skin can be rubbed with lemon peel, so that it softens and gradually fall off. Oily skin, after bathing in the moisturizer drops of fresh lemon juice rubbed all over the body, the implementation of the massage, you can get rid of excess oil, so that the skin glossy red and elastic.
4, lemon drinking weight loss
Take 100 grams of fresh lemon juice, 100 grams of fresh kelp, the kelp washed with a knife cut marks lemon, into 180 grams of water, soaked in a stainless steel cup, boiled for 1 hour, cooled, drinking can be appropriate to add a little rock sugar. Because kelp contains iodine, can promote thyroid hormone secretion, improve the body metabolism. Lemon juice on the diastolic softening blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation, but also can enhance gastrointestinal digestion. This can eliminate the body stagnation of excess subcutaneous fat, to achieve the purpose of weight loss. Drinking amount can be discretionary, but should not be drunk frequently. In addition, take 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of honey, and add appropriate amount of brandy. Drinking it at night can help you fall asleep and improve the quality of your sleep, but it is also good for skin care and weight loss.
5, beauty
Lemon in the beauty of a unique role, lemon juice can clean the skin pores, so that the skin smooth and bright, white as jade. Here are a few easy and practical lemon beauty methods. [2] lemon beauty hair shampoo, in the hair oil into a few drops of lemon juice, wrapped hair, 20 to 30 minutes after washing with warm water. Wash 1 time a month, can make hair shiny and soft.
Lemon wrinkles take fresh egg white, add lemon juice, with flour into a thick paste, rubbed on the face for 15 minutes after washing with water, can soothe wrinkles.
Lemon skin cleansing will be a teaspoon of honey heating, add the same amount of lemon juice, mix well, evenly coated in the face, half an hour later, wash with water, can make the skin white.
Lemon spot in the evening with a cotton swab dipped in lemon juice coated in pigmented spots, and then rubbed on the skin cream, there is the effect of spot removal.
Lemon skin care take fresh mature lemon 2, in turn, with cold, hot water to clean, remove the tip, with a clean cloth to dry, with a knife cut into 1 cm thick slices, loaded into a wide-mouth bottle, and then add 20 degrees of sorghum wine 350 ml, sealed, 3 months can be taken. Rub this liquid on the face, gently pat and rub, so that the skin is slightly red, in order to facilitate the penetration of the liquid into the skin, to enhance the effect of skin care.
Lemon lips often lips with a piece of lemon, can make the lips naturally red, blood flow, and can often breathe lemon fragrance, refreshing effect.
Lemon teeth lemon has a bleaching effect, can be white teeth. Take a small piece of gauze, dipped in lemon juice, like brushing back and forth rubbing teeth, both clean teeth can also prevent dental disease, but also to remove bad breath.
Lemon evening makeup before going to bed at night, wash your face, take the right amount of massage cream or cold cream on the palm, drop into three or four drops of lemon juice, will be rubbed evenly on the face, gently massage with your fingers for 1 minute with a cotton try to go, applying lotion, persistent, you can receive the effect of beauty.
Lemon face will be appropriate amount of cucumber juice, lemon juice, alcohol and mix, add egg white stirred, rubbed in the face, 15 minutes after washing off, have the effect of skin care.
Lemon fade red with lemon juice and some milk powder (or flour) mix well, coated in the affected area can be. Continuously do 2 months, can make the skin smooth, flat and soft, the original unhealthy red will fade.
Lemon lotion will be cleaned glass jar, pour rice wine, add a thinly sliced lemon, will be sealed glass jar, stored for more than 1 month, can be made of natural lotion. This lotion contains no chemicals and can be used before going to bed. Even while you sleep, your skin absorbs the vitamins in the lemon, and it has a nourishing effect on your skin.
Lemon hand rubbing hands with lemon flesh helps fade the unhealthy color in the skin; rub hands with lemon peel, the lemon oil contained in the peel can make the skin delicate and smooth. [2] lemon in addition to scars take 1 lemon, wash, with a home blender juice filtering, add 50 ml of pure honey and 1 egg raw egg white, gently stir, so that it is thoroughly mixed, but not too much foaming, and then conditioned into a small amount of sugar water to take. Adhere to the daily service 1 time, 3 months have obvious scar removal effect.
Lemon soft skin elbow and heel parts due to frequent friction, the skin is most likely to keratinize and become hard thick skin. After taking a bath, rubbing the keratinized skin vigorously with lemon slices will soften it quickly.
Lemon health bath lemon cut ten thousand thin slices, immersed in the bathtub, where the vitamin C, can make the whole body refreshing, but also the effect of healthy skin.
Lemon disinfection in the water to put one or two slices of lemon, lemon will hand dip wash, can clean hand disinfection.
Lemon treatment of frostbite will be lemon slices soaked in warm water, about 10 minutes, will be immersed in the hands and feet, can promote blood circulation, moisturize the skin. Once a day, within a few days, frostbite is healed.
Lemon beauty three cases
Lemon belongs to the citrus fruit, rich in vitamin C, to promote metabolism, slow down the phenomenon of aging and enhance the body's ability to resist, etc. are very helpful. But in fact, in addition to the effects of physical fitness, lemon is also a fairly high value of the beauty of food, not only has the whitening effect, and its unique fruit acids can soften the stratum corneum, so that the skin becomes whiter and more shiny.
★Scalp buildup
Causes: There are many reasons for scalp buildup, such as unclean hair, dry scalp, and the use of unsuitable shampoo and conditioning products. Thorough cleansing and deep moisturizing are the most basic treatments.
Methods: In 1 cup of olive oil, add 1/4 cup of lemon juice that has been heated, massage on the scalp, wrap the hair with a hot towel, and leave it for 30 minutes before rinsing the hair with water, which is quite effective in removing the scalp.
★Yellow nails
Cause: long time to wear poor quality nail polish, containing very high lead and other chemical ingredients will make the nails become slightly yellow.
Methods: Apply lemon juice to the nails, massage gently, and wash with water after 10 minutes to return the nails to their original color.
★Huge pores
Cause: The cuticle on the surface of the skin will hinder the absorption ability of the pores, the accumulation of oil secretion will make the cuticle thicker, so that the pores become large and obvious.
Methods: After washing your face, add 23 drops of lemon juice to a toner-soaked cleansing pad and gently pat it on your face to help soften the cuticle and refine pores, as well as whiten the skin.
Nutritional value
1. Lemon contains niacin and rich in organic acids, its flavor is very acidic, but note that rich in potassium, sodium, so lemon is alkaline food. Favorable to the body's pH. Citric acid juice has a strong bactericidal effect on food hygiene is very good, experiments show that the acidity of the lemon juice is extremely strong in 15 minutes can be all the bacteria in the sea shells to kill.
2. Lemon is rich in aroma, can get rid of meat, aquatic fishy gas, and can make the meat more tender, lemon can also promote the secretion of proteolytic enzymes in the stomach, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, lemon in the daily life of the Westerners, often used to make cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts of cold cuts and pickled food.
3. Lemon juice contains a large number of citrate, which can inhibit the crystallization of calcium salts, thus preventing the formation of kidney stones, and even has become a stone can be dissolved, so the consumption of lemon can prevent and control kidney stones, so that part of the chronic kidney stone patients with stones to reduce the number of small.
4. Eating lemon can also prevent and control cardiovascular disease, can alleviate the role of calcium ions to promote blood coagulation, can prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction, citric acid has a contraction, solidification of capillaries, reduce permeability, improve blood clotting function and platelet number of the role of the coagulation time can be shortened bleeding time and bleeding time of 31% to 71%, with the role of haemostasis.
5. Fresh lemon is extremely rich in vitamins, is a natural good for beauty, can prevent and eliminate skin pigmentation, has a whitening effect.
6. Lemon raw food also has a good effect on the fetus and vomiting, so lemon is suitable for lemon women's fruit.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, citric acid, malic acid, sodium, potassium and so on, are very beneficial to the human body. Usually eat more lemons, if you help to lose weight, I think this is the female friends love lemon one of the main reasons. Because of the citric acid and pectin can affect the stomach, control appetite, so as to achieve the effect of weight loss; and eat more fried food will feel a little nausea, this time you may want to add a spoonful of lemon juice can help digestion Oh! In addition, if you cough, you can drink more lemon drinks, expectorant cough is quite effective! Finally, lemon has the effect of lowering blood pressure, because it is rich in beneficial vasodilator flavonoids antioxidants, you can achieve relaxation of the body, dilate blood vessels, lower blood pressure effect.