High cholesterol level in a person’s body is not a good thing and people try to do anything possible to help them avoid it. In order to have a stabile cholesterol level, people need to change their diet and they can also use some alternative treatments to assist their efforts. The alternative treatment can be found in their kitchen, such as a lime. This particular citrus fruit has plenty benefits both in culinary where people use it to accent the flavors in their food and peoples’ health where in this case it can help people lower down their cholesterol level.
People can use lime to lower their cholesterol level:
- Pick up a fresh and clean lime
- Cut it into several pieces along with its skin
- Put it into a glass and then pour hot boiling water in the glass.
- Close it down and wait for half an hour to let it cool
- Do this twice a day, in the morning and in the evening
Although lime is believed to grow in Persia and Southern Iraq, this plant has spread all around the world including Southeast Asia. In other countries, lime is used mostly as part in their culinary where it can give the specific refreshing floral aroma, but in Southeast Asia country such as Indonesia, lime is also used as an herb and the above example is one of its uses.
In Indonesia, people also believe that lime can be used to help people lose weight. They make lime juice, add it with water and drink it routinely. People believe that lime is able to burn the fat in their body. There are more benefits that people can get from lime and the one that is also very popular in this day is to use lime extract as aromatherapy which is believed to be able to energize people.
