Lemon
Lemon – a hybrid species of evergreen trees with sprawling, pyramidal krone and leathery leaves. Height of trees can reach five meters. It treats a sort of a citrus (family of rutic).
Lemon call also a fruit of this plant. A lemon – ancient vitamin medical and prophylactic. India and subtropical and tropical regions of Southeast Asia traditionally are considered as its homeland. The area of this fruit extended further also to other parts of the world.
Nutrition value and caloric content of a lemon
Hundred grams of fruits of this citrus contain 0,6 mg of iron, 0,125 mg of zinc, 240 mkg of copper, 0,04 mg of manganese, 10 mkg of fluorine, 1 mkg of molybdenum and 175 mkg of boron.
Pulp of fruit is vitamin-rich. So, hundred grams of fruits of a lemon contain 0,01 mg of beta carotene, 2 mkg of vitamin A, 0,04 mkg of thiamin (B1 vitamin), 0,02 mkg of Riboflavinum (B2 vitamin), 0,2 mg of B5 vitamin, 0,06 mg of B6 vitamin, 9 mkg of B9 vitamin, 40 mg of vitamin C, 0,2 mg of vitamin E and 0,2 mg of RR vitamin. Besides, pulp contains vitamin P (cythrene) which contains only in a citrus. Tsitrin - the phenolic connection having high biological activity and having medical qualities.
Pectinaceous substances, sugar, derivative coumarin, phytoncides, flavonoids, sequiterpenes, эриоцитрин, hesperidin иэридиктиол also are a part of pulp of a citrus. Fat essential oil and limonene – bitter substance is a part of seeds. The peel of fruit contains 0,4-0,5% of essential oil.
Caloric content of a lemon is low. Caloric content of hundred grams of pulp of a lemon – about 40 calories. Caloric content of a lemon of the average sizes makes about 44 calories. Caloric content of a glass of tea with a teaspoon of lemon juice – about 15 calories.
Hundred grams of fruit contain 0,9 g of proteins, 0,1 g of fats, 3 g of carbohydrates, 2 g of food fibers and 88 g of water.
Useful properties of a lemon
Useful properties of a lemon for a human body are explained by existence of a large amount of useful substances and minerals in its structure. Uniqueness of advantage of a lemon consists that this citrus is capable to provide during all seasons of year a human body with necessary useful components – in the spring, in the period of avitaminosis, and in the winter, for immunity maintenance.
Useful properties of a lemon are many-sided. The advantage of a lemon consists in its antiinflammatory, fortifying, antivermicular, antimicrobic, wound healing and antisclerous action.
As medical raw materials lemon juice, pulp and a peel are used. Pulp and juice of a lemon are very useful at an urolithiasis, gastrointestinal diseases, avitaminosis, a hypertension. These citruses are useful and at hypostases, viral and infectious diseases, hemorrhoids, at gastritis with the lowered acidity, and also at dropsy, tuberculosis. The lemon brings benefit also during pregnancy (as nausea medicine at toxicosis).
Lemon – powerful natural solvent and a dezintoksikator. At various poisonings lemon juice accelerates process of release of an organism from toxins. It is capable to remove even those deposits of toxins which did not manage to be removed other means. The lemon effectively fights against putrefactive processes in an organism, strengthening effect of enzymes of a liver.
Juice of a lemon is applied at rheumatism, radiculitis, gout. Citric acid is capable to dissolve uric acid and its deposits in cartilages and joints. Citric acid – fine means for prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. Juice of a lemon is effective against aphthous diseases of a mouth and throat.
Lemon juice bleaches and softens face skin, saves head skin from dandruff, strengthens its blood supply. Besides, lemon juice promotes strengthening of nails, reduces fat content of hair.
Lemon essential oil – liquid of light green or light yellow color, received by pressing of a fresh peel of a lemon. Lemon oil increases mood, refreshes and disinfects air indoors. It destroys disease-producing bacteria, a fungal infection and viruses, reduces risk of infection. So, oil neutralizes staphylococcus and a typhus bacterium in fifteen minutes. Lemon oil is quite often used for processing of wounds and a stop of bleedings, and also for a helotomy and warts. In small concentration (two-three drops) it is applied to preparation of the bathtubs invigorating and softening skin, and also to massage.
Tincture of a peel of a lemon is used for appetite improvement. Broth of a peel is used as means for prevention of a stroke and a hypertension. At a headache it is recommended to put to temples a fresh lemon peel the wet party. Regular massaging of the bleeding gums the interior of a fresh peel of a lemon will accelerate their healing.
In the spring at avitaminosis it is recommended to drink a glass of hot water in which one-two teaspoons of honey and juice of one lemon are dissolved. Mix of lemon, carrot, orange and apple juice is used for prevention of arrhythmia. Mix of this citrus and garlic promotes clarification of vessels and increase in the general tone of an organism.
For maintenance of health it is recommended to use not less than one lemon a day. Nutritionists recommend to use the lemon juice mixed with honey.
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