Thursday, March 1, 2012

Lemon Grass (Cymbopogon citratus) : Ingredients Cooking Beneficial to Health

Lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) known as citronella plant. Citronella is a plant of the family of lush grass and has a fragrant aromatic. Citronella is also an annual plant that live in wilder. This plant can reach heights up to 1.2 meters.
Cymbopogon citratus plant is sometimes also referred to as Sereh, barbed wire grass, silky heads, citronella grass or fever grass.
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a plant member of the tribe of grasses commonly used as spices or herbs to scent food mosquito repellent. But did you know that behind the fragrant smell, the plant called latin Andropogon nardus also holds a variety of medical and health benefits ?

Lemon grass leaves contain anti-microbial and anti-bacterial. The content is especially useful in treating infections of the stomach, intestines, urinary tract and wounds. Citronella is also known berkhasit as a diuretic, and antirheumatic reliever seizures.
Citronella can help cure various diseases such as typhoid fever, skin infections, food poisoning and body odor. The content of analgesic compounds in lemongrass oil can help relieve the pain of headaches, joint pain and muscle aches.
Lemongrass also has anti-piretik beneficial in lowering the heat. Therefore, the lemon grass is very well provided for people who are experiencing a fever.

Lemon grass leaves contain volatile oil consisting of citric, sitronelol, a-pinene, kamfen, sabinen, mirsen, felandren beta, p-Simen, limonene, cis-osimen, terpinol, citronellal, borneol, terpinen-4-ol, a-terpineol , geraniol, farnesol, metilheptenon, n-desialdehida, dipenten, methyl heptanenon, bornilasetat, geranilformat, terpinil astet, sitronil acetate, geranil acetate, beta-elements, kariofilen beta-, beta-bergamoten, trans-metilsoeugenol, beta-kadinen, elemol , and kariofilen oxide. Other compounds are geranial, geranil butyrate, lomonen, eugenol and metileugenol.

Benefits of Lemon grass
Because of the strong odor lemonnya, commonly used in perfume oil soaps, detergents and cleaners other goods, and cosmetics. Lemon grass oil is also used to treat bloating (flatulence), bowel movement is not fixed and gastric stimulation, as well as good for treating reumatisme and one vein.
Lemongrass is also used in aromatherapy treatment. Oil extracted from lemon grass starch is also used as fragrance in cosmetics, shampoo and soap. Serai sitral content contains approximately as much as 65% to 85%.
 
One of the recipes use lemon grass is to boil it to help cope with symptoms of cough. A total of 5 grams of lemon grass roots washed and boiled with 1 cup water for 15 minutes. Then lemon grass drink boiled water twice a day each 1/2 cup in the morning and afternoon.

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