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Health benefits of lemon: Healing power of plantsBY: David Prakash Kumar | Category: Food and Drinks | Post Date: 2009-08-19
Diseases have been the cause of untold suffering in the human race. Alternative medicines including herbal and plant based medicines have shown the way to cure many diseases. These have negligible side effects when compared to the chemicals that are taken in with each dose of drugs got from the pharmacy. This article lists the important health benefits of lemon which is a citrus fruit and is easily available in all places. This citrus fruit may have had its origin in Italy, but is now grown all over the world. It is especially grown in the tropics and the Mediterranean climate. The advantages of using lemon for their health benefits are: 1. It is easily available. 2. It is very cheap to purchase. 3. It can be converted to juice form which is commonly drunk by people around the world. So it is not as if a medicine is being used. 4. It is easier to convince children to use this for the health benefit as they may not like to have traditional medicine. The various medicinal uses and health benefits of lemon: 1. Body heat: According to Ayurveda, the body can be either hot or cold. Even the foods in the body can be considered as either hot or cold. Lemon is considered to be a type of food that helps to reduce the heat in the body. 2. Tone: Lemon helps to give tone and vitality to the body. This is because of the various substances that are present in the lime. These concentrate the body fluids and also cause the muscle tone to be optimized. 3. Cold and cough: Lemon is used in the juice form for people to use as a health drink. This helps the person to be relieved of cold sometimes. It can at least be used to help decrease the severity of the cold. This is because of the vitamins that are present in the lemon juice. 4. Skin problems: Lemon is also used as a treatment for various skin problems. This is a natural cure and is used as part of herbal medicine and also in traditional medicine to cure warts, burns, dandruff and other similar conditions. This is because lemon can be used as a disinfectant. This can be possible because lemon is strongly acidic because of the citric acid present in the lemon juice. This is a major health benefit of lemon and it is also used in doing facial massage as part of the beauty aid in beauty parlours. 5. Other conditions: There are also some more health benefits from lemon that are used in traditional medicine. These other medical conditions that are treated with lemon and lemon juice are throat diseases, headaches and stomach aches. Lemon can also be used to increase the digestion. Lemon has also been found to be useful in treating rheumatic joint pains. These are the various uses of lemon in treating medical problems. These health benefits can be used without fear of any side effects occurring in the individual. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: I am a physiotherapist and also a freelance writer. I have been writing for many blogs and websites and also take up freelance assignments. Comments are welcome at prakashdavid@rediffmail.com Additional Articles: * Learn how to start dating after a divorce * There is a man behind every successful woman * SPICES ECONOMY IN INDIA * Boys and Girls living together before marriage: Live-in relationship * Play on Staffing process Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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