Healthy Life Journal

Lime (Citrus aurantifolia) has been known since long as a benefit-rich plants. The fruits taste bitter, sour and a little cold, but the benefits are extremely diverse.

According to Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan, a member SP3T (Development and Application Center of Traditional Medicine) DKI Jakarta, lemon juice can be used as a flavoring food, beverages, refreshments, citric acid preservative, and cleaning up the rust on the dirty metal and leather. Can also as a mixture of herbal medicine.

As a natural herb, lemon efficacious to remove blockages of energy vital, anti-cough, sputum peluruh (mukolitik), peluruh urine (diuretic) and sweat, and helps the digestive process.

Lemon oil containing limonene and linalool fly, as well as flavonoids, such as poncirin, hesperidine, rhoifolin and naringin. The content of the ripe fruit are synephrine and N-methyltyramine, other than citric acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins A, B1, and C. Sitratnya acid could prevent postoperative recurrence in patients with kidney stones.

Hj. Sarah Kriswanti, herbalist who lives in Bandung, and Dr. Setiawan Dalimartha from Hiptri (Traditional Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Indonesia), giving tips how to use lemon juice as an herb that helps cure the disease.

1. Haemorrhoid
A total of 10 ounces lemon tree roots washed clean, then boiled with 1 liter of water for half an hour, then filter. Warm drink three times daily.

2. Tonsil
Skin washed 3 limes, cut into pieces, then boiled with 2 cups of water until the water remaining 3 / 4, strained. Water is used to rinse out his mouth. Do it 3-4 times a day.

3. Anyang-anyangan
Two lime washed, spun and then given a sugar cube to taste and 1 cup hot water. Stir in warm, to drink at the same time once a day.

4. Cough
One lime washed, squeezed, mixed with 1 tablespoon honey _ and a little salt, mix well and then filtered. Drink 2-3 times a day. Or lime juice plus a piece of rock sugar and stir until the average, drink one a day until healed.

5. Cough Accompanied Influenza
Cut a ripe lime and contain enough water, then wring it out. Pour boiling water juice with 60 cc of hot water. Add 1 / 2 teaspoon of betel leaf, stirring evenly. Drink this mixture two times a day 2 tablespoons.

6. Body Odor
Mode 1:
Cut a large lemon into two parts, rubbing the slices with a thin layer of whiting. Apply to underarms after a shower. Let stand for 5 minutes then rinse, do every morning and evening.
Two ways:
Several strands (10) young leaves of lime powder, crushed into small pulung like a pill, eat three meals a day.

7. Kidney Stone
Two grains of lime juice diluted with 2 villages glass of warm water, drink after dinner. Do it every day for 10 days.

8. Diphtheria
Two lime washed, squeezed the water. Pour boiling hot water with 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon honey. Use to rinse for two minutes while still warm, and drink. Do it three times a day.

9. Fever or flu
Mode 1:
One washed and squeezed lime juice, add red onion 3 cloves that have been crushed and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Apply on the forehead of the patient.
Two ways:
One minute baked lemon, cut and squeezed, add one tablespoon of honey. Drink all at once.

10. Irregular Menstruation
Three tablespoons of lemon juice plus 1 tablespoon honey and 2 cups hot water mix evenly. Drink while warm. Do it three times a day

11. After Childbirth
One tablespoon whiting plus 2 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil and 2 eggs village lime juice, stirring until smooth, and apply on abdomen. Do it for three months each day after bathing, to avoid stomach wrinkles, keep it smooth and flat as in the past.

12. Pimple
A sliced lime and then rubbed on the skin.

13. Prevent Hair Loss or dandruff
Two lime cut into three parts, lubricate the scalp until blended. Wrap the head with a towel overnight, washed the next day. Do it three times a week.

14. Hair Melebatkan
A chicken egg yolk beaten with lemon juice 3 eggs until blended village. Rub on the scalp, massage-massage until evenly, leave for two hours only to be washed with shampoo stimulates hair shiny and thick. Stimulating shampoo made from a bunch straw, burned to a charcoal rather than ash, and let it soak in water overnight. Strain, and ready to wash the shampoo stimulates.

15. Stopping Smoking Habit
Slice a lemon, smoked and drank water. Do this several times a day.

16. Vertigo
Half handheld crushed lemon leaves. Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Rub into the neck, temples, and forehead. Perform 2 times daily.

17. Laryngitis
Cut 3 ripe lime fruit, then wring it out. Pour boiling water juice with 1 / 2 cup hot water, add 1 tablespoon of honey, stirring evenly. While warm, use this ramun to gargle for 2-3 minutes. Do it three times a day.

18. Mucus in the Throat
Cut 2 pieces of lime, squeeze the water, accommodation in a glass. Add a little salt, and mix well. This herb can be taken on an empty stomach.

19. Ringworm or the panu
Wash the roots of a handheld Landep (prionitis Barleria L.) to clean, then finely mashed. Add juice of 1 lemon, stirring evenly. And apply on the skin affected by ringworm or the panu, then bandaged with cloth bandages. Change bandages two times a day until healed.

20. Fever / Heat Currently Malaria
Provide three pieces of lemon leaves and leaf kendal (Cordia obliqua Willd.) (Blumea balsamifera L.), and 5 prasman leaves (Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl.). Boil these ingredients with 3 clean water glass until remaining 1 glass. Once cool, strain. Water filters are divided in two, drink morning and evening.
21. Dislocate
Three Fruit ripe lemon and lots of water is split into two. Enter into the pot and poured boiling water with 1 / 2 cup hot water, then closed. Having taken chilled orange and then squeezed and filtered. Add 2 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil and 2 tablespoons oil gandapura. This herb is used to massage the injured part. After that drinking 3 / 4 cups young green coconut water. Do it three times a day.

22. Stiff
Wash the lemon leaves, leaf ketepeng china, and bitter leaf (each third cell), 10 pieces of betel leaves, two fingers of papaya root, root kepayang two fingers, three fingers Moringa roots, and 10 Fruit cayenne pepper, and mashed until smooth. Soak herb in 1 liter of alcohol for seven days. Water juice can be used to rub and massage the sore body parts.

23. Toothache
Combine lime juice, black amethyst root mill and mill legetan warak each 1 tablespoon. Add 3 / 4 cup of salt water into it, and mix well. Furthermore, these herbs and strain the juice. Use water to rinse the filter for several minutes, then discard. Do it 4-6 times a day.

24. Body slimming
Add the juice of one lemon into a cup of green tea water. Drink this concoction every morning and evening. Do it every day.

25. Adding Stamina
Mix up a chicken egg yolk, juice of 1 lime fruit and a little slice of brown sugar. Stir until smooth, then drink. Do it once a week.

26. High Blood Pressure
Provide 20 flowers and lime leaves 30. Wash thoroughly, then add the fruit juice of two limes. Boil these ingredients in 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. Once cool, strain. Water filters drunk three times a day 3 / 4 cup. Drink this mixture plus a little honey. Do it every day.