Lemongrass (Citronella) with cuisine and traditional medicine

Lemongrass (Citronella) is a familiar spice in the kitchen of many families in Asia.

However, people simply think of lemongrass to make dishes more appealing as well as create aromas for food without knowing that lemongrass has a lot of effects, especially in health, pharmaceutical, and aromatherapy serve life.

Citronella contains essential oils citral, citronellol and geraniol; There are also a number of other essential oils with different scents, depending on the species of lemongrass.
Lemongrass essential oil is used as a digestive aid, to repel mosquitoes, make fragrances and fragrant soaps.
According to Oriental medicine, lemongrass spicy properties warm; Into the vagina. It has a negative effect, irrigation, only concept. Treatment of poor digestion, urinary tract infections, urination, bronchitis, pharyngitis, productive cough. Daily use 8-20g fresh form; Can cook, brake, marinate.

Lemongrass dish makes medicine taste:

Stir-fried snail with lemongrass and lotus root: 

Lotus snail (or stuffed snail) 2kg, lotus root 200g, lemongrass 2 - 3 tubers (about 20 - 30g, including leaves).

Snail snails, washed, boiled, crushed to get snail meat; Add some ginger, green chili, and other spices and mix well with snails, leave for 10-15 minutes. Lotus immersion sour sliced ​​slices available; Lemongrass shredded. 
Prepare the sauce with chili, garlic, garlic, pepper, and look at the lotus. Bring the seasoned snails to the chili lemongrass, stir fry on the pan, pour into the bowl, pour the sauce on the surface of the stir-fried dishes.

This dish is good for hepatitis jaundice, urinary tract infections, cough cough. 

Grilled beef with lemongrass: 

1kg beef, 3-5 lemongrass (including young leaves), 1 bulb onions, palm leaves, and river bone are just enough.
Sliced ​​beef jerky cut 8cm long, 4cm across; Lemongrass, minced lemongrass, pepper powder, crushed garlic, sesame oil, curry powder, soy sauce in appropriate dosage, mix well with beef, marinate for 30-50 minutes.
Chopped onion company, betel leaf, river bone washed.
Place each piece of marinated beef on a cutting board or tray, put onions, leaf bone in the middle, and roll to grill on charcoal.
Serve with ginger dipping sauce, cucumber, sour star fruit, and salads.

This dish is very good for people with poor digestion, jaundice hepatitis, bronchitis.

Lemongrass cooked fish: 

Snakehead fish (fruit) 1 - 1,5kg, lemongrass 3 - 5 tubers, sweet potato, sweet potato, tomato, 1 - 3 fruits per day, 1 ginger fresh ginger.

Clean fish cut into pieces, marinated with half a pack of curry and chopped lemongrass, a little salt, fish sauce, sugar, onions, garlic; Sweet potatoes, peeled large sliced ​​potatoes (2x4cm), halved tomatoes, crushed ginger.
For marinated snakehead fish, fry the potatoes and tomatoes, stir-fry, add water, spices, stew. Delicious food, very good for edema, jaundice, cough sauce ... 

Stir-fried lemongrass marinated frog: 

1kg frog, 2-3 lemongrass roots.
Frogs cleaned, cut in 3 to drain, marinate frog meat with chopped lemongrass, add curry powder, salt, pepper, sesame oil, and spices, mix well, leave for about 15 - 30 minutes.
Prepare more Chinese smells, coffee, chili, ginger, fresh garlic, crushed roasted peanuts, fish sauce, and appropriate spices.
In a hot pan, bring to a boil in the frying oil, quickly fry the heat until the frog is cooked, add the smell of Chinese jasmine, tomato, chili, ginger, garlic, and spices (may add ty, onion, carrot, tomato, tubers, etc. Nettle ...), add some water, cook well, combine. Delicious food, suitable for edema, body weakness, fever.

Using lemongrass as medicine:

Sauna pot for flu, fever, headache:

Lemongrass leaves, bamboo leaves, daisies, grapefruit leaves, basil of 50g each ... Cook steam.

Shampoo: 

Lemongrass 50g, betel nut 50g, locust 5 results. Cooking shampoo, smoothing dandruff hair, preventing hair and scalp diseases.

Treatment of diarrhea:

Lemongrass roots, bear tubers, retracted bark, tangerine peel, post-treatment each taste 6-12g. Excellent drink during the day.

Cure eczema children:

Lemongrass roots 30-50g. Crushed rubbing eczema.
Relieve bloating, abdominal pain: Lemongrass essential oil 3 - 6 drops into a glass of water and drink.