Lemon seeds reduce cough and cure snake bites

People often use lemon seeds in combination with some other herbs to treat coughs for children. This seed is also a quite effective antidote to snake bites.

Lemon seeds, a residual product are often removed when using lemon, and the taste is quite popular according to folk experience.

Child cure cough: Get lemon seeds, kumquat seeds, jelly leaves each 10 g, black chicken honey one. All used fresh, crushed, add sugar, steamed rice for cooked and drink 2-3 times a day. Or 10 g lemon seeds, chives 15 g, 15 g male papaya flowers, 20 ml water. Medicines are crushed, mixed with water and added honey or diameter, taken 3 times a day, used a few days.

Solid detox: Take fresh lemon seeds or dry 10-20 g to chew, swallow water, remove residue from the bite. This is the experience of people in some mountainous areas of our country and in some localities of India. Regarding the mechanism of action of lemon seeds on snake venom, according to popular experience, the bitter substances often have a good detoxifying effect (bitterness in lemon seeds has been identified as lemonin or pepolimonin). It is possible to combine lemon seeds 15 g, bitter melon 10 seeds, 12 g rhizome root, 20 g bear root, salt to eat some seeds. All to be crushed, soaked with 30 ml of boiling water for 10 minutes, stir well and distil or filter. Adults drink two times 20 minutes apart; children under 15 years of age take 1/4 to 1/3 adult dose.

In addition, lemon seeds can cure constipation. The seeds are just separated from the fruit (10-20 g) and immediately soaked into a cup of hot water for several hours. The sticky water that surrounds the seeds will hatch and dissolve into a thick liquid, add sugar, drink once a day. The mechanism of action of the drug is when enter the intestine, mucus has hypertonic will absorb water, bulge to increase volume and create a favorable environment for reproduction of intestinal bacilli. These bacilli are essential for the contraction of the large intestine, making it easy for the stool to escape.

Bao Hoa DS, Health & Life