lime (Citrusaurantium L.) is a herbaceous plant that produces fruit with the same name. This plant utilized the fruit, which typically round, green or yellow, has a diameter of 3-6 cm, generally containing sour pulp, somewhat similar taste to lemons.
Orange juice is one type of citrus Geruk. Lime including herbaceous plant species that has many branches and twigs. Height of about 0.5 to 3.5 m. Tenacious woody trunk, prickly, and hard. Medium colored outer skin surface of an old and dull. The leaves are compound, ellipse-shaped with rounded base, the blunt edge, and edge beringgit. Leaves reach 2.5 to 9 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. While bone pinnate leaves with winged stalks, green and 5-25 mm wide.
The flowers are sized plural / singular leaves that grow in the armpits or on the end of the rod with a diameter of 1.5 to 2.5 cm. relationship such as bowl-shaped petals 4-5 sharing 0.4 to 0.7 cm in diameter stained yellow-white and yellowish-white cylindrical stalk buds. Crown leaves numbered 4-5, oval or oblong with a length of 0.7 to 1.25 cm and 0.25 to 0.5 cm wide colored and white.
Citrus juice at age 2 1 / 2 years has begun to bear fruit. The fruit is a round of ping-pong ball with a diameter of 3.5 to 5 cm colored (outer skin) or yellowish green. Lime plants have roots riding. Lime fruit is old sour taste. Citrus plants generally like places that can get direct sunlight.
lime contains elements that are useful chemical compounds, for example: citric acid, amino acids (tryptophan, lysine), essential oils (sitral, limonene, felandren, lemon camphor, kadinen, Gerani-lasetat, linali-lasetat, aktilaldehid, nonildehid), resin, glycosides, citric acid, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur vitamin B1 and C. In addition, orange juice also contain flavonoids and saponins compounds hesperidin (hesperetin 7-rutinosida), tangeretin, naringin, eriocitrin, eriocitrocide. Hesperidin is useful for anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and inhibits prostaglandin synthesis. Hesperidin also inhibits azoxymethane (AOM) induced colon carcinogenesis in rabbits, and also inhibits N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxy-butyl) nitrosamine induced bladder carcinogenesis in rats (Chang, 2001). Orange juice also contains 7% essential oil containing citral, limonene, fenchon, terpineol, bisabolene, and other terpenoids. Guo, et al. (2006) has observed that the D-Limonene can inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis in HL-60 cells and K562 cells.
Lime fruit efficacious as cough medicine, febrifuge, and drugs stiff. Additionally, citrus fruit juice is also beneficial as a cure dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoids, menstrual irregularities, diphtheria, acne, dizziness / vertigo, hoarseness cough, increase appetite, prevent hair loss, dandruff, flu / fever, stop smoking , thyroid problems, nosebleeds, inflammation of the nose (sap), and so forth.
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