Lime Benefits

Lime has many benefits. Besides being a refreshing drink, fruit that has consumed thousands of years ago this could also prevent the temptation to cure various diseases. Indeed there are so many oranges, among other things tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, orange sauce, lemon, mandarin oranges, and many others. However, in terms of none of which matched lime.

Lime is a plant with many branches of shrubs. The height can reach six meters. The leaves are oval shaped and handled. Star-shaped flowers are white. Hard woody stem and usually bear fruit after 2.5 years. The fruit is round with a smooth surface, thin-skinned, yellow and green when older.

This plant is thought to have come from north Indian region. Lemon fruit contains a lot of water and vitamin C are high. Leaves, fruit, and flowers, flying oil containing limonin and linalool. Lime usually grow well in lowland areas that were exposed to sunlight.

Communities in the Netherlands, especially living in big cities like Amsterdam, Den Haag, and Rotterdam, has known the benefits of orange juice since several centuries ago. So did the people in the United States. They began to recognize the benefits of lime since the time of ancient Indians. Ohio State Biotechnology Center in the city of Columbus, Ohio, United States, had done research on lime. The result, lime rich in vitamins and contains a number of minerals. Lime lime merit is still fresh, thin-skinned and yellow-green color.

Apart from fruit, roots, leaves, and lime flowers are often used as a drug. According Prapti Dr. Utami, lemon fruit contains several substances that are beneficial to the body, among others, citric acid, glucose, fats, essential oils, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, and amino acids. "The number of ingredients found in citrus fruit juice to make it widely used as a drug," he explained.

Essential oil of lime leaves inhibits the growth of staphylococcus aureus (bacteria on the skin). Lime juice can be used as a mouthwash in tenggotokan ill patient. The sweet smell of a delicious, delicious when we rinse. Her skin, if held in the mouth, can scent or reduce bad breath was delicious and overcoming inflammation because they contain acid that can kill germs.

Because many oil and kandungnan substance in it, lemon is also used to overcome dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoid, irregular menstruation, diphtheria, acne, headache or vertigo, hoarseness, cough, body odors, increase appetite, prevent hair fall, dandruff, flu, fever, too fat, tonsils, Anyang-anyangan disease (painful urination), nosebleeds, and inflammation of the nose.

Lime fruit taste bitter, sour, a bit cold and efficacious to remove the blockage of vital energy. Can be used as a cough medicine, peluruh sputum, peluruh sweat, and helps the digestive process. Taste sour lemon can help clear the nicotine found in smokers' teeth and mouth. Ingredients contained limonin in citrus juice can reduce blood cholesterol levels which indirectly reduce hypertension.

By drinking lemon juice regularly, every morning, noon and night, would wake stability and trimness body. Lime juice can also prevent coughing. Not only that, lemon juice can make the skin pores become smaller and eliminate the fat in oily skin. The pulp can reduce the heat in the stomach.