Lemon is a fruit popularly known for its therapeutic properties, it helps maintain your immune system and thus protects you from most types of infection, it also serves a blood purifier. Lemon is a great antiseptic and its juice works for people having heart problems owing to its high potassium content. Make lemon a part of your daily routine, drink a glass of warm lemon water in the morning and enjoy its healthy benefits.
AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF LEMON
1.TREATS FEVER
Lemon juice can treat a person is suffering from cold, flu or fever. It helps to break fever by increasing perspiration.
2.HELPS FIGHT CANCER
As an excellent source of the powerful antioxidant vitamin C, lemon and its juice can help fight the formation of agents known to cause cancer.
3.AIDS DIGESTION
Lemon juice helps to cure problems related to indigestion and constipation. Add few drops of lemon to your dish (PS: it doesn’t go well with milk), and it will help aid digestion.
4.TEETH WHITENING
Lemon can be used in cleaning the teeth. Keep your eye out for a toothpaste containing lemon as one of the ingredients, or add a drop of its juice onto your normal toothpaste. Some people also rub their teeth with the outer layer (the inner side touching your teeth) after removing its juice. But be careful, it can be highly acidic, so if your mouth starts burning, rinse your gums and mouth quickly with water.
5.HAIR CARE
Lemon has proven itself in the treatment of hair care on a wide scale. The juice applied to the scalp can treat problems like dandruff, hair loss and other problems related to the hair and scalp. If lemon juice is applied directly on the hair, it can give your hair a natural shine.
6.SKIN CARE
Lemon, been a natural antiseptic medicine can also cure problems related to the skin. The juice can be applied to the reduce the pain of sunburns and it helps to reduce the pain from bee stings as well, it s also good for acne and eczema. It acts as an anti-aging remedy and can remove wrinkles and blackheads. Drinking its juice mixed with water and honey brings a healthy glow to the skin.
7.SOOTHENS RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
Lemon juice assist in relieving respiratory problems such as its ability to soothe a person suffering from an asthma attack. Being a reach source of vitamin C, it helps in dealing with more long-term respiratory disorders as well.
8.DENTAL CARE
Lemon is frequently used in dental care, if fresh lemon juice is applied on the area of a toothache, it can assist in getting rid of the pain. Massaging the juice on the gums can stop gum bleeding, while eliminating the bad odor that comes from the various gum diseases and conditions.
Some part of this content was sourced from Organicfacts.net and Medicalnewstoday.com
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