but also helps purify the body.

Peach lemon, famous as a precious medicine, is very popular. When ripe, the lemon peel is thin, yellow in color, contains a lot of essential oils, and has peach-pink flesh, very fragrant. There is also a peach lemon with turmeric yellow flesh.

Peach lemon (Illustration)

Honey (Illustration)

Lemon peel contains many essential oils, so it is effective in treating coughs, sore throats, flu, reducing fever… Lemon pulp contains a significant amount of citric acid (about 8% of dry weight), so it is very effective in preventing and treating coughs. , hoarse voice.

Besides, peach lemon contains a lot of

vitamins

A, B1, B2, especially vitamin C, which has cooling, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying effects…

Meanwhile, honey is a food with many health benefits. According to studies, honey has nearly 200 substances such as simple sugars, proteins, vitamins, mineral salts, and enzymes that have antiseptic, bactericidal and nutritious effects for the body. Especially when soaked with lemon and peach, it is an effective remedy for respiratory diseases.

How to soak lemon and peach with honey

Depending on actual use and available ingredients, you can soak peach lemons with honey or soak peach lemons with honey and rock sugar.

What you need:

– Old, thin-skinned, ripe yellow peach lemons: 1 kg

– Good honey: 1 liter (If soaking peach lemons with pure honey, use 1 kg peach lemons with 1.4 liters of honey)

– Rock sugar: 0.5 kg

– Wash glass jar, rinse with boiling water and dry, cover and compress with dry, clean bamboo.

Perform:

– Wash the lemons, mix a little salt with cool boiled water, soak for 30 minutes, then take the lemons out and let them dry thoroughly. Slice the lemon thinly, soaking the seeds as well.

– Arrange lemon slices in a glass jar and fill with honey

– Cover the bamboo griddle.

– If soaked with rock sugar, crush the rock sugar into small pieces, pour a layer of sugar into the jar, then a layer of lemon, then pour a layer of sugar (repeat until the jar is full). Finally pour in honey. Take the griddle and press down on the lemon. Leave it for about 3 months to use.

Using:

– Every morning, use 1 teaspoon of lemon and peach honey to both prevent disease and increase vitamins.

– When infected with cough or sore throat: use 2-3 times a day, 1 teaspoon each time.

Tips for you:

– You should use a glass jar to soak peach lemons and keep the jar in a cool place.

– When first soaking, check the jar regularly. If after a few days you see foam, skim it off. Do not let the lemons float out of the grill because it will easily become moldy and scummy.

– After a few weeks, you can use lemon soaked in honey and rock sugar. You should soak lemons for as long as possible. At first, when fresh, lemons are a bit bitter to eat, but after a long time, peach lemons are eaten like apricot fruit, which is both good for the throat and improves health.