9 Benefits of Lime for Healing Disease

Lime (Citrus aurantifolia) has been known for long as the plant is rich in benefits. The fruit taste bitter, sour and a little chilly, but the benefits are very diverse. lime juice can be used as flavoring dishes, beverages, refreshments, from which citric acid, as well as cleaning rust on metal and dirty skin. Also as a mixture of herbs.

As a natural herb, lime efficacious to remove the blockage of vital energy, cough, laxative sputum (mucolytics), laxative urine (diuretic) and sweat, and help the digestive process.

Lime contains oil limonene and linalool, as well as flavonoids, as poncirin, hesperidine, rhoifolin and naringin. The content of the ripe fruit is synephrine and N-methyltyramine, other than citric acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins A, B1, and C. Citric acid is able to prevent postoperative recurrence in patients with kidney stones.

Hj. Sarah Kriswanti, herbalist who lives in Bandung, and Dr. Setiawan Dalimartha (Traditional Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Indonesia), gives tips on how to make use of lime as herbs that help cure the disease.

1. Cough with Influenza
Cut a ripe lime and contains enough water, then squeeze. Pour boiling water juice with 60 cc of hot water. Add 1/2 teaspoon of whiting water while stirring. Drink this mixture two times a day 2 tablespoons.

2. Fever or Flu
Briefly baked lime, cut and squeezed, add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink at once.

3. Laryngitis
Cut 3 pieces of ripe lime, then squeeze. Pour boiling water with juice 1/2 cup hot water, add 1 tablespoon of honey, stirring evenly. While warm, use this mixture to rinse for 2-3 minutes. Do it 3 times a day.

4. Body slimming
Add the juice of a lime into a cup of green tea water. Drink this mixture every morning and evening. Do it every day.

5. Pimple
Sliced lime and then rubbed on the skin.

6. Irregular Menstruation
3 tablespoons of lime juice plus 1 tablespoon honey and 2 cups hot water mix evenly. Drink while warm. Do it 3 times a day.

7. Adding Stamina
Combine an egg yolk, juice of 1 lime and a few slices of brown sugar. Stir until smooth, then drink. Do it once a week.

8. After Giving Birth
One tablespoon whiting plus 2 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil and 2 pieces of lime juice, stirring until smooth, and apply to the abdomen. Do it every day for 3 months after bathing, to avoid stomach wrinkles, smooth and flat as before.

9. High Blood Pressure
Provide 20 flowers and 30 leaves of lemon. Wash thoroughly, then add the juice of 2 lime juice. Boil these ingredients in 3 cups water until remaining 2 1/4 cups. Once cool, strain. Filter drinking water 3 times a day 3/4 cup. Drink this mixture plus a little honey. Do it every day. produced local companies," he said.