Fresh lemonade, who can drink it, who shouldn’t?

Spices and medicinal plants

Dr. Ngo Duc Phuong, Director of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that lemon is a familiar tree, in rural areas, almost every house has a lemon tree in the garden. Even in urban areas, there are many lemon trees on the terraces or balconies of houses.

Not only “for ornamental”, lemon tree is also a spice and medicinal plant. In the middle of the hot summer, a cup of sugar lemonade helps to replenish energy and helps reduce heat quickly.

Fresh lemonade, who can drink it, who shouldn’t?

On the dining table, the spice bowl with lemon juice also often appears to use meat, vegetables and fruits in meals. A bowl of vermicelli, a bowl of pho, a bowl of noodles also needs lemon as an indispensable delicious condiment, or a plate of boiled and roasted chicken is often sprinkled with lemon leaves on top.

Not only a spice, Dr. Duc Phuong added that all parts of the lemon tree are used as medicine, such as roots, bark, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds.

Lemon leaves are also used to treat colds and flu, combined with other herbs to treat whooping cough. In addition, lemon leaves are also used by the late physician Nguyen Kieu in the lesson Binh Can Cano, including hemp leaves (100 parts), mill leaves (50-80 parts), lemon leaves (30-50 parts) and alum phi (5-parts). 10 parts) for the treatment of coughs, colds, colds, headaches, insomnia, chest pain, bitter mouth, dark yellow urine, constipation.

For lemon peel, Dr. Ngo Duc Phuong said it has the effect of supporting digestion, curing vomiting, chest pain, cough with phlegm. Meanwhile, lemon roots are commonly used as a remedy for cough and asthma (either alone or in combination with other herbs). Lemon roots combined with lemon seeds cure venomous snake bites. Lemon seeds are also used to treat venomous snake bites and as a dewormer.

Who shouldn’t use lemonade?

In fact, in the lemon tree, the lemon is used the most. According to Oriental Medicine, lemon is a fruit that is rich in vitamin C, a nutrient that increases the body’s resistance to fight infections and poisoning.

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In addition to the effect of clearing heat, digestion, anti-inflammatory, lemon also treats internal heat, dry mouth, headache, dizziness, trouble sleeping, hypertension, nosebleed, flu, headache, fever. conditions related to fever, inflammation (salted lemon or honey is used in cases of cough, sore throat).

However, traditional medical documents also emphasize that not everyone can use lemon juice. Accordingly, it is necessary to limit the use of lemon juice for people who are afraid of cold, afraid of wind, cough with thin phlegm, cold hands and feet, short skin, short breath due to “low internal cold”.

In this case, it is recommended to use the beneficial effects of gas to relieve phlegm. If you use cool lemon to clear heat, the consequences affect yang. In case you have a high fever, you sweat profusely, your hands and feet are cold, and your blood pressure drops. At this time, you need to warm up and recover, if you drink cool lemon water to clear the heat, you will easily get worse, and the disease will be serious. than.

Or the debilitated, old and weak people bleed in many places “because the qi can’t try to pull the blood”. The main treatment of qi and blood tonic should also not use lemon juice.

N. Huyen