Lemon grass has various names like Cymbopogon, barbed wire grass, silky heads, Cochin grass or Malabar grass or oily heads,and citronella grass. This grass grows in trophical countries. Citronella grass is the producer of citronella oil.

BENEFIT OF LEMON GRASS FOR YOUR HEALTH

Lemon grass is known as the medical herbs in South East Asia. It also uses as the spice in some cuisines. The flavour is very strong because it has some fragrance oil.

What are the benefit of lemon grass for your health?

• It helps better digestion. It can helps to fight gastric ulcers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326778/
• Citral and Geniral in lemon grass will prevent from inflamation.
• Lemon grass oil contains anti microbal substance
• Lemon grass contains chlorogenic acid, isoorientin, and swertiajaponin as the antioxidants.

HOW TO CONSUME LEMON GRASS

• Dried lemon is consumed as tea or lemon grass tea.
• Lemon grass oil. There are many stores that sell lemon grass oil or citronella oil.
• Lemon grass as spice for some cuisines. In my country lemon grass is used to cook meat like gulai and fried chicken.

VEGETATION

Lemon grass can be plant from the grass root. Pick some roots with the stem and plant in sunny area. The grass is good in light.
You can also plant lemon grass in your garden for your hebs collection. Thanks for reading and don't forget to follow @lebah and I will foll you back.