Suckhoedoisong.vn – In the past, lime was often used as a fruit used to mix water to cool the body or spice up dishes. But recently, the US National Library of Medicine has just published a series of studies on lemonade, which is effective for many diseases.
Magical effects from a cheap fruit
While billions of dollars are poured into the research and development of medicines, scientists have proven that lemonade can alleviate and even cure many diseases. Limes are known to have medicinal uses such as detoxifying the body by stimulating liver and kidney function, boosting the immune system and reducing the effects of free radicals.
Recently, the Australian Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) said that one lime is also effective in preventing up to 50% of cancers and recommends that each person consume at least 150g of orange or frozen lime peel every week. Because in one lime contains up to 22 anti-cancer substances including limonene, citrus pectin, glycosides flavonnol, vitamin C … However, scientists especially emphasize the effect of preventing and supporting cancer treatment of the lime peel where contain limonoids that have anti-cancer properties. Here are the great uses of lemonade and lime peel – a readily available and very inexpensive fruit available in most countries around the world.
Benefits of lemonade
Sickle cell anemia: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sickle cell anemia (SCA) affects about 95,000 Americans and one in every 500,000 African Americans with this disease.
This is a congenital blood disorder. Normal red blood cells are disc-shaped, move easily through blood vessels, and contain a protein called hemoglobin. This protein is rich in iron, which gives the blood its red color and carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body. Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin, do not move through the blood vessels easily, they are hard and have a tendency to clot, stuck in the blood vessels.
Sickle-shaped red blood cells form clots in blood vessels that prevent blood from flowing to organs, blocking blood vessels, causing pain, infection, and organ damage. The patient has a lower than normal red blood cell count because sickle cells cannot live long, while the bone marrow cannot make new red blood cells fast enough to replace the dead cells. This is an inherited, lifelong disease, the disease is present from the moment the patient is born.
Previous treatments such as pain relievers and intravenous fluids were used to relieve pain, prevent infections, eye damage, stroke, and manage complications. These methods do not completely cure the disease, but only reduce symptoms and treat complications. A bone marrow transplant can be curative in rare cases. Researchers are continuing to search for new treatments for this disease including gene therapy, bone marrow transplantation, and stem cell therapy, of which stem cell therapy has shown considerable success. However, these treatments are very expensive and not effective.
Recently, a clinical trial with pediatric patients with SCA found that lemonade can reduce pain symptoms (50% with lemonade, compared with 92.7% without).
Not only that, this type of water also reduced fever (46.6% when using lemonade, compared to 87.3% when not using) and hospital admission rate (3.4% when using lemonade, compared with 34.5% without).
Uses for malaria: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 219 million people suffer from this mosquito-borne disease, of which 660,000 die each year. To treat this disease, patients are often prescribed drugs with high side effects and toxicity, significantly affecting the digestive system, nervous system, cardiovascular system, liver and kidney function…
But a new study found that lemonade can significantly increase the healing power when combined with conventional medicine, not only that, but also reduce the side effects of the drug.
Effects on food poisoning ingredients: A recent study found that in the ingredients that cause food poisoning in seafood salads, popular dishes in the coastal areas of the United States are often processed from raw fish (shrimp) is completely removed with lemonade.
Scientists also discovered that lemonade can be used to disinfect water by killing norovirus – a group of viruses that cause diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain – as well as Escherichia coli. Lemonade can also kill cholera – a disease that is thought to affect 3-5 million people and in 2010 killed 100,000-130,000 people.
Pancreatic cancer: This is a difficult cancer to treat, but lemonade has been shown to reduce the risk of developing this tumor in trial patients.
Smoking cessation support: Every year, tobacco kills nearly 6 million people around the world. A clinical trial comparing nicotine gum and lemon juice extract found that “the juice can be used effectively as a smoking cessation aid.
Little known effect of lime peel
Currently, many people only know about the health benefits of lime juice, but do not know the benefits of lime peel. Therefore, when using lime, we still discard the lime peels, but they are the most powerful medicine to cure many diseases and detoxify.
Recently, Australian scientists have researched and discovered that the antioxidant compounds and essential oils in lemon peels are high enough to fight many diseases. Lime peel includes essential enzymes, vitamins, minerals, vitamin C, vitamin P, calcium, potassium, fiber, limonene… Lime peel is to be considered to have a preventive effect on heart problems, acne, cholesterol.
Lime peel is also effective in reducing fever in malaria. When suffering from malaria, drinking one large glass of warm, thick lime peel, within 5 minutes, can help the patient reduce fever. In addition, lime peel is also effective for hypertension, prostatitis, kidney stones, gallstones, cholecystitis, spine spurs, arthritis of the knees, wrists, stomach ulcers, armpit odor, toothaches, all kinds of inflammation, scabies … Drinking lemonade for a long time is beneficial for women who have had surgery for cervical fibroids or ovarian cysts to prevent complications.
However, do not abuse lime peel excessively, every day should use 10-20g. Before slicing and drying the lime peel, it should be soaked and washed.
Source: https://suckhoedoisong.vn/nhung-cong-dung-it-biet-tu-qua-chanh-n127507.html – Minh Hương (Synthesis)