Lemon can be a multi purpose medicine for your health

: Luit Chaliha, Sivasagar

Lemon can be a medicine for you, gifted & produced by nature, if you are having pain in joints, coughs, lever disorder and ear-ache. It contain high percentage of Vitamin C (10 mg.) besides Vitamin B (0.02 mg.), Niacin (0.1mg) per 100 gm. Other uses are juices, pickles and squashes. The juice is good for digestive system and also is good for smoothness of the skin. It prevents many skin diseases and can gives relief from pain in joints, coughs, lever disorder and ear-ache. Lemon juice helps to control high blood pressure beneficial in treating cataract.  Demand for lemon is increasing day by day as the hot summer season has started in Assam and other parts India.

 Assam Lemon (Citrus limon) is a major cultivated fruit crop of Assam state occupying an area of 8,700 hector.