Lemon: what is useful? And what can harm?

We all grew up on Russian folk tales.

Many people mentioned golden rejuvenating apples, but very few people knew that the word “apples” meant completely different fruits, namely, lemons.

Lemon - beneficial properties and harm.

Is lemon useful? Is it true lemon - pantry of vitamins! And can it harm our body?

What is the use of lemon?

What is useful lemon?

The composition of useful trace elements

1. Vitamin C - in large quantities is contained directly in the juice, in the peel is 3 times less, but it is necessary to use fresh, it should not be left for storage.
   

Under the influence of air, the vitamin begins to break down. Strengthens the immune system.

2. Vitamin P (Citrine) - Necessary for the brain, because the lack of can cause bleeding or swelling. There is no vitamin in frozen fruits.
   
3. Vitamin B- aims to normalize sleep.
   
4. In addition to vitamins, this fruit contains minerals: calcium strengthens bones, teeth and nails, while reacting with magnesium, dilute and clean the blood vessels.
   

Potassium strengthens the heart muscle, has a beneficial effect on the brain and nervous system.

5. Great content carotene in fruits can compensate for vitamin A deficiency.

Healing properties

1. Lemon like bactericidal agent. With colds, kills up to 12 different bacteria.
   
2. Fruit plays an important role in the digestive system and in the liver. It helps produce enzymes and acts like choleretic agent.
   
3. Despite the fact that the taste of the fruit is very sour, lemon lowers the acidity of the stomach.
   
4. Antioxidant - cleanses the body of toxins and uric acid. Tea with lemon is not only a diuretic, but also a good tonic.
   
5. We do not replace lemon in the treatment of rheumatism, gout, rickets, tuberculosis and constipation.
   
6. Citric acid is involved in splitting stones in the kidneys.
   
7. Anti-rot agent. Citrus helps to remove heavy toxic deposits, especially in the liver.

Before use, the lemon must be thoroughly washed, but not worth cleaning. Lemon rind fresh is no less useful than its internal content:

1. A great antiseptic because of its bitterness.
   
2. Improves digestion, prevents gas formation.
   
3. Pectinscontained in the peel are small killers of harmful microorganisms and cancer cells.

Lemon seed and their benefits. Another lemon component - bone. If you bite through it, you feel a characteristic bitterness, this is due to the high content of essential oils.

In cosmetology

At home lemon water can be used to wash your face. It has a softening and whitening property.

Citrus juice strengthens the nails.

Harm

Of course, lemon has a lot of useful qualities, but even in this case there is a reverse side of the coin. When and what can harm the use of this citrus?

Could there be an allergy to lemon? An allergic reaction is caused by a specific protein in the composition of citrus, and not citric acid. Such reactions occur in children and adults. People with digestive diseases such as hepatitis, dysbacteriosis or dyskinesia are most susceptible to it.

It can manifest itself as follows: on the part of the digestive system - colitis or gastroenteritis and irritable bowel syndrome, on the skin - dermatitis or urticaria. In more severe cases - angioedema and disorders of the respiratory system.

You can not eat lemon in diseases of the digestive tract - chronic gastritis, pancreatitis and ulcers in the acute phase.

Pure lemon juice can cause burns in the larynx with severe inflammation and sore throat.

Tooth enamel also suffers, even if the lemon is diluted with water. Good advice is to drink with a straw.

Is the bone poisonous?

What part of a lemon contains a toxic substance? Lemon bone: good, is it poisonous? Citrus seeds, like many other fruits, contain toxins. Drinking tea is better with pitted lemon. Tinctures should also be used with caution.

Poisoning bones probably will not happen, but they will cause harm to the body. So suffers mucous membrane of the digestive tract, as well as the use of any bones can cause rectal cracks.

And then the video, in which even more information about the usefulness of lemons.

Watch the video: Benefits and Side Effects of Lemon Water (May 2024).