One of the most famous fruits is lemon. We add it to tea, use it in its pure form, sometimes add it to salads. But this fruit, due to its incredible usefulness, has a very wide application in cooking and medicine.
Lemon is native to India. It is a small evergreen tree with elliptical leathery leaves. Lemon blooms for several months, starting in spring. Fruit ripening occurs in late autumn, closer to winter.
Lemon is one of those fruits that are good both by themselves and in combination with any drinks and dishes. The incredible number of useful properties of lemon has led to its widespread use both in cooking and in medicine.
The most famous use of lemon is to drink tea with it. For this, the fruit is cut into thin circles, and 1 circle of lemon is dipped into a cup of freshly brewed tea. This gives the tea a special piquant taste.
Another option for using lemon is simply to cut it into wedges, sprinkle with sugar and consume it as it is.
The listed options are the most famous and affordable. There are many other ways to use lemon ingredients. It can be added to salads, various drinks; the very fact of the presence of this fruit in a direct or transformed form (juice, pulp, zest) will give the dish a piquant taste.
If you squeeze juice from half a lemon, and dissolve half a teaspoon of soda in it, then such a drink will help with pain in the gallbladder.
Diluting lemon juice with half a glass of warm water (half a lemon), we get a remedy for the effective treatment of eczema, fungal skin diseases; such a remedy can remove freckles and birthmarks, as well as eliminate itching.
Lemon juice is prescribed in order to improve the general condition of the body, quench thirst, replenish the deficiency of vitamins C and P. Lemon juice will help patients with gout, people suffering from salt deposits and cardiac edema.
An irreplaceable remedy for the initial stage of hypertension. It will help with an increase in the thyroid gland, and will also be useful for girls and women suffering from gynecological diseases.
Lemon peel is an excellent antibacterial agent. It is recommended to chew for inflammatory processes of the throat and respiratory organs. Lemon peel will be an indispensable remedy for purulent sore throat.
Despite such an abundance of the beneficial properties of lemon, do not overdo it with its use: it can cause an allergic reaction. The use of this fruit is not recommended for persons diagnosed with sore throat. In this case, the lemon can provoke a burn.
The use of lemon is not recommended for children under 3 years old, as well as for people who are allergic to citrus fruits.
