In life, there are many small tips and tricks that are easy to implement from the ingredients available at home, but bring many useful effects for family members. Here is one such tip.
Specifically, according to a girl living in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi, she often sees her mother placing a cut lemon by the bed or in a corner of the bedroom, near the bed. So what is the real effect of this?
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In fact, this is a small tip that helps to improve sleep quality and improve sleep for humans. Because in essence, lemon – not only a drink, used as a seasoning, flavoring for family meals, but also brings many good effects for human health. According to the India Times, lemon is rich in antioxidants and antimicrobial properties. Specifically, these substances can be vitamin C, vitamin A and B, copper, manganese, calcium, potassium, magnesium… Indian traditional medicine also believes that lemon is an ingredient that can activate the body’s physiological reactions.
That is why lemon water, lemon essential oil or even just the scent of lemon also partly supports human health. Placing a cut lemon in the room, especially the bedroom or near the bed, is evaluated to have 4 main functions as follows.
Benefits of placing cut lemon in the bedroom
1. Good for respiration
The aroma of lemon or lemon essential oil in the air can help promote the respiratory process for humans. Especially for people with asthma or sinusitis, lemon will help improve the respiratory conditions of these subjects to some extent.
The person’s airways will be cleared, the feeling of breathing will be easier. The improved respiratory process means that sleep will become better, deeper. From which the human spirit will be more comfortable, more relaxed. There is much evidence that lemon can support people with insomnia at night.
The scent of lemon and lemon essential oil will help support human respiration, making sleep better and deeper (Illustration photo)
2. Clean the air
Lemon, besides being a common ingredient used to clean many objects in the home, can also clean the air with its fragrance and essential oil. The air in rooms, especially small, stuffy, cramped rooms, often has an unpleasant odor, which will be somewhat cleaned by cutting a lemon and placing it in a corner of the room.
To increase the effectiveness of this measure, users can also add a little salt to the lemon. Leave it overnight or for a day and then replace it with a new lemon and salt tray.
3. Relieve pain
Some studies at the University of Maryland Medical Center – USA have shown that the fragrance of lemon also has the effect of reducing pain such as headaches or low-grade joint pain. At the same time, the scent of lemon also helps reduce anxiety, tension, and create a sense of relaxation for people who have to study or work under high intensity.
Therefore, not only placing it in the bedroom, placing lemon in the workplace or the corner of the desk is also very good.
Lemon also has good pain relief effects (Illustration photo)
4. Repel insects
The 3rd function of placing a cut lemon in the bedroom or near the bed is to repel harmful insects that affect human sleep. This method is especially effective in the summer, when mosquitoes grow and develop strongly, and dengue fever outbreaks.
In addition to mosquitoes, lemon can also repel flies or ants. Using lemon to repel insects not only brings good effectiveness but is also evaluated as a safe method, not using chemicals, thereby saving and being more friendly to human health, especially children.
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