Lemon Grass

Scientific name: Cymbopogon citratus Stapf.

Common name: Lemon Grass, Lapine.

Family: Poaceae (Gramineae)

Other names: The Krai (region) kiley (south) the onion (curved - Son) Wrapped Walk metal Go (Karen - Mae) lion head (Khmer - Prachinburi) lemongrass beef (general).

Botanical characteristics.

Part used:.

• The store throughout the year and totally washed with contemporary or dry within the shade and keep it running.
• Throughout the year to stay the roots totally washed with contemporary leaves.

Properties.

• The starting.

1.  Pungent style, headache, cough, cold stacking hoarded wealth.
2.  Cure flatulence pain expel viscus peptic ulcer maintenance.
3.  The appetency. abdomen pain looseness of the bowels.
4.  Cure rheumatism, aches, bruises from falling leg lump.
5.  Cure nephrolith urinate emission disorders.
6. water is bloody cure bronchial asthma cure.

• Root

1. Cure pain pain tight chest. abdomen ache and excretion.
2. Maintenance peptic ulcer cure urinary calculi with the water pill.
3. Treat fungal infection cure suppression of water.

• Fresh leaves - have high pressure, helps cut back fever.
• Tree have drug driving wind gave Maine split ends whereas biological process to wind force. The smell. The appetency. Maintenance of peptic ulceration to develop. The tract. Urinary calculi with the sexually transmitted disease. 

Method and quantity of use. 

• Relieve flatulence, abdominal hurting. 

            - Use different trunk stricken enough crushed to regarding one handful (about 40-60 grams) cooked       water. Or the food.

             - the complete plant, as well as roots, lemon grass, shredded into items, boil for five from three                elements salt to one half indefinite quantity one cup intake 3 days to induce a abdomen ache. 

• Relieve suppression of excreta. The excreta against unskilled (But no swelling). 

             - Use contemporary daily from the primary handful (about forty to sixty g, dry weight twenty to      

      thirty g) with boiling water to one cup (75 ml) three times daily before meals. 

             - The stalks to the bottom. locomote skinny glasses cooked delicate enough to drink it as a tea,    

      yellow tea one cup at a time, three times daily before meals, tea. 

Nutritious food.

           Lemon grass is also beneficial to the body. It adds essential minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and many vitamins are also included.

Chemicals.

           Leaves - the oil contains 0.4 to 0.8% Citral 75-85% Citronellal, Geraniol Methylheptenone little, Eugenol and Methylheptenol.

           Root - with dual 0.3% alkaloids.