The leaves are leathery, green, length 10-15 cm, width 5-8 cm Flowers axillary, solitary or paired. The fruit length 6-9 cm, a diameter of 4-6 cm, ovate or oval, with a nipple at the apex, light yellow, with detachable hard lumpy or pitted rind, containing numerous glands with essential oil.
The inner part of the fruit with multiple nests. Seeds ovoid, yellow-green or white, in the context of green.
A small evergreen fruit tree with a height of up to 8m, with a spreading or pyramidal crown.
Homeland lemon are considered tropical and subtropical China, India and Burma. It is now cultivated in the Mediterranean Countries, United States, in the Caucasus.
From getting lemon essential oil, lemon juice, citric acid and p. R. So to produce 1 kg of essential oil the bark requires about 3,000 lemons, the pulp of lemons used to produce citric acid.
Lemons, bring them to the places where they grow, often bitter taste. This is because they are taken more to maturity. Therapeutic value, such lemons can not be compared with the Mature, with refined, delicate and very pleasant taste.
Chemical composition of lemon
Lemons contain vitamin C, citric acid, flavonoids, b-complex vitamins B, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and fiber. Lemons contain more potassium than apples or grapes. Potassium is very good for the heart substance
Lemon essential oil is obtained by cold pressing the outer part of the pericarp of a plant. As the green fruits give a little oil, for these purposes, you need to use only ripe lemons. From 60-70 kg of fruit lemon turns just 1 kg of essential oil. This oil is light yellow in color, sometimes with a greenish tinge, and not surprisingly, it smells like lemon. Lemon oil is used to improve the smell and taste of drugs.
Lemon essential oil has antibacterial, protivosudorojnam, toning and astringent properties. Lemon oil improves the immune system of a person is a disinfectant, so it is used for colds, flu, fever and various oral infections. Lemon oil helps with freckles, improves the condition of nails, get rid of dandruff on the head and makes the hair shiny.
Useful properties of lemon
The lemon contains a lot of useful substances, and therefore it is used in many diseases. One application of lemon – use it vitamin properties that help in scurvy. The lemon is an excellent preventative tool. It is used for beriberi, arteriosclerosis. The lemon contains lots of citric acid, water and a set of useful vitamins. Lemon has hemostatic properties, so it is used for bleeding from the nose, stomach and even bleeding from the gums. The lemon is used as an antipyretic and tonic in tuberculosis, pneumonia, diseases of infectious and other infectious diseases.
The juice or pulp of this fruit has a remarkable gaidouronisia action. Lemon juice helps with inflammation in the oral cavity and throat, for example, with angina. In addition, the juice will be a good helper with frostbite.
The use of lemon
Lemon is a natural source of vitamins like C, P, B1 and B2. Lemon is an antioxidant of natural origin, it excites the entire body and essential oils protects it from stresses.
Lemon acts as a tonic. Lemon stimulates cardiac function, treats the Central nervous system, helps with hypotension and neurasthenia. Syrup lemon has antihelminthic action. Topically applied solution of juice with water to rinse the oral cavity inflammatory processes. Also lemon juice is applied eczema and fungal diseases in the form of lotions.
Lemon juice can heal cracks in the skin, reduce brittle nails. Zest of a lemon with honey helps improve digestion. Lemon is recommended to use for pregnant women and people with a diagnosis of “jaundice”.
Lemon is used in folk medicine as an additional tool in diseases of the liver, edema, rheumatism, gout and gastritis with low acidity.
Recipes with lemon
Cure worms. We need to take a lemon, remove its skin and grind it. To this mixture, add the seeds and pulp of lemon. Pour 1 Cup of boiling water. There also add a teaspoon of honey and leave for 2 hours to infuse. Once ready, strain the cure, it can be applied before bed as a vermifuge.
Lemon from rheumatism. This medicine is easy to prepare. For it take 4 lemons and 3 heads of garlicand pour 1 liter of boiling water and infuse for 24 hours. Strain the finished medicine, it is necessary to take 50 grams before meals three times a day.
Face mask for dry skin of lemon. It is necessary to take 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and mix it with 1 teaspoon of chicken eggs. In this mass add 1 tablespoon ready and still warm oatmeal. The resulting mask is applied to the face, hold 10 minutes and then wash off with warm water.
Lemon oil for colds or the flu. For its preparation you need to take one lemon with the peel and scald it with boiling water. Then skip the lemon through a meat grinder and add to it 100 grams of softened butter with 1 tablespoon of chicken eggs. All is well mix and used instead of butter for sandwiches. In the winter you need to eat this oil at least 6 times a day, pre-smeared them with a piece of black bread.
Lemon with angina. Take a quartered lemon and squeeze the juice out of it. Connect it with 150 ml of water and rinse your throat with this solution after every hour for two days. This solution kills germs and removes inflammation.
Juice bronchitis. You need to mix the juice of three lemons, 50 grams of grated horseradish. Ready juice take 1 teaspoon several times a day. The cure is not to drink or eat.
Medication for angina. Take 1 lemon and squeeze the juice from it, add to it the juice of two leaves of aloe and a pound of eggs. All of it should be shifted in a bowl and put in refrigerator for a week. You need to take medicine 1 hour before meals for 1 tablespoon three times a day.
Infusion with hypertension. Preparing it this way: take 3 lemons and 5 heads of garlicand and all put into a three-liter bottle, then fill with water to the brim. As soon as the mixture will float on the surface of the water, you need to wait two days, and when the mixture settles to the bottom, the infusion is ready. Take the infusion of 100 ml in the morning.
Water with lemon
Use water with lemon has long been proven in practice, with regular use, it relieves headaches, lowers blood pressure, making effective treatment of diseases of the kidneys.
Water with lemon helps to eliminate toxins from the body, which is beneficial to the overall condition and appearance.
Water with lemon on an empty stomach especially useful: it activates the digestive tract, neutralizes acidity of stomach.
Water with honey and lemon is considered a fortified beverage, saturating the body With vitamin C and trace elements. 100 grams of lemon contains 40 mg of vitamin C, a Cup of water with lemon juice eliminates the pain in the throat.
Gargling with a mixture of juice of half a lemon, a teaspoon of coarse salt and a glass of water, contribute to rapid recovery from a sore throat. Greenish-yellow fruits contain organic acids, sugars, nitrogenous substances, salts of potassium, copper, vitamins a, B1, B2, C, volatile. The presence of vitamin e contributes to the prevention and treatment of cerebral edema, capillary fragility, pain in the legs. The use of lemon as a food product will help to normalize the nervous system, eliminates fatigue, General weakness.
For varicose veins, hemorrhoids, venous ulcers are also shown lemon. It is also effective in combating various viruses. Wonderful product is capable of destroying up to 20 microbial species, its substance is effective in dysentery, paratyphoid, cholera, meningococcus, scurvy, jaundice, dropsy. Lemon is prescribed for kidney stone disease, tuberculosis of the lungs, catarrh of the stomach, gout, lumbago. Nature gave us a great solvent helping to remove all the excess from the body. Also lemon helps to restore the tissues.
This fruit is suitable for people of all ages and is an excellent remedy against putrefaction.
Lemon for weight loss
People suffering from obesity, can use a lemon without a doubt. Cooked in the evening infusion from two teaspoons of dry chamomile and a few slices of lemon need to drink in the morning on an empty stomach. You can just make it a rule every day after waking up to drink a glass of the drink which includes a lemon.
Water with lemon for weight loss – the most beautiful way. Fat, feeling bad people who have shortness of breath and decrepit body, unable to help themselves, using scheme is a mixture of garlicand lemon juice.
Recipe of lemon and garlicand crushed garlic (400 g) and the juice of 24 lemons should be mixed in a jar with a wide mouth, tie with gauze and leave for 24 days. Make the tool should be only before bedtime and 1 teaspoon of the mixture with a glass of water.
Healing lemon is combined with ginger. The nutrients medicinal root and citrus provide a speedy recovery from many ailments.
Tea with ginger and lemon will be very simple: ingredients, sliced to pieces, pour with boiling water and languishing on a slow fire for 5 minutes. Drink a decoction need small SIPS. It is useful at the first signs of a cold.
Garlic, honey and lemon – perfectly combined ingredients of magic potions, this elixir of youth. This remedy is best to cook in the fall, when garlice high concentration of nutrients.
The recipe for the elixir: 6 large lemons you need to chop, combine with 4 heads garlicand 350-400 g eggs, fill with a mixture of a bottle of dark glass, tie the cheesecloth and infuse it in a dark place for 10 days, then strain and take in the morning 15 minutes before eating 1 tablespoon, diluted in a glass of water, and in the evening – after dinner.
Useful in the home medicine Cabinet, another sedative.
Tincture of lemon peel crushed lemon peel, pour vodka in the ratio 1:10 and take a few drops.
Headache help compresses with lemon juice or applied to the forehead and temples pieces of juicy pulp.
Contraindications to the use of lemon
Sure, lemon has many useful properties and substances, but also contra-indications to it are available. For example, the lemon should be used in moderation because if consumed in excessive quantities, he’ll break the tooth enamel. Many people after long-term use of lemon complain of increased sensitivity to hot and cold water.
People with high acidity of gastric juice, inflammation of the stomach (gastritis), peptic ulcer of stomach and duodenum need to be careful with the use of lemon. It can raise the acidity to cause heartburn, pain, cramps, and even vomiting.
Also some people on the lemon can appear allergic, that is why young children it should be given in small portions, watching the child’s condition.