One of the most famous fruits is lemon. We add it to tea, use it in its pure form, and sometimes add it to salads. But this fruit, due to its incredible usefulness, has a very wide application in cooking and medicine.
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Lemon grows in India. It is a small evergreen tree with elliptical leathery leaves. Lemon blooms for several months, starting in spring. Ripening occurs in late autumn, closer to winter.
Lemon refers to those fruit ones that are good both on their own and in combination with any drinks and dishes. The incredible amount of beneficial properties of lemon has led to its widespread use in both cooking and medicine.
The most famous use of lemon is to drink tea with it. To do this, the fruit is cut into thin circles, and 1 cup of lemon is dropped into a cup of freshly brewed tea. This gives the tea a special piquant taste.
Another option for using lemon is to simply cut it into slices, sprinkle with sugar and use it in this form.
The listed options are the most famous and affordable. There are tons of other uses for lemon ingredients. It can be added to salads, various drinks; the fact of the presence of this fruit in direct or transformed form (juice, pulp, zest) will give the dish a piquant taste.
If you squeeze juice out of half a lemon and dissolve half a teaspoon of soda in it, then such a drink will help with pain in the gall bladder.
Diluting lemon juice with half a glass of warm water (half a lemon), we get a tool for the effective treatment of eczema, fungal skin diseases; this means you can remove freckles and birthmarks, as well as eliminate itching.
Lemon juice is prescribed in order to improve the general condition of the body, to quench thirst, to fill up the deficiency of vitamins C and P. Lemon juice will help patients with gout, people suffering from salt deposition and cardiac edema.
An indispensable tool in the initial stage of hypertension. It will help with an enlargement of the thyroid gland, and will also be useful to girls and women suffering from gynecological diseases.
Lemon zest is an excellent antibacterial agent. It is recommended to chew with inflammatory processes of the throat and respiratory system. An indispensable tool for lemon zest is purulent tonsillitis.
Despite such an abundance of beneficial properties of lemon, do not overdo it: it can cause an allergic reaction. The use of this fetus is not recommended for people who are diagnosed with sore throat. In this case, lemon can cause 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.