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Lemongrass : An essential ingredient of Thai cuisine Welcome to Health & Beauty column,today we will bring you to know “Lemongrass”.What is it ? How it use ? Let's find the answer with the following article. Lemongrass : An essential ingredient of Thai cuisine W elcome to Health & Beauty column,today we will bring you to know “Lemongrass”.What is it ? How it use ? Let's find the answer with the following article. Lemongrass is one of an essential ingredient of Thai cuisine.It is a perennial herb widely cultivated in the tropics and subtropics.Lemongrass grow well in sandy soils with adequate drainage. Since the plants rarely flower or set seed, propagation is by root or plant division. Essential Substances The essential substances found in rhizome is Volatile oil which consists of Citral , Eugenol , Geraniol , Citronellol , Myrcene and Camphor. Medicinal Benefits Lemongrass is a warm and spice herb.These properties help to reduce high blood pressure , sweat and urine excrete .Besides of this , it also relieve cold , headache and stop shrink.The following are the treatment by using lemongrass. 1. Boil lemongrass with warm water ,then sift for only water .Drinking lemongrass juice is useful for flatulence remedy and relieve cough . 2. Boil lemongrass with warm water .Use this water to bath yourself .It can treat your body pain. 3.To keep your waist pain away, smash fresh lemongrass and apply it on your pain. 4. Besides of using to keep the mosquito away lemongrass oil can also use to apply on the swell . The parts we always bring to use are rhizome , stem ,and roots . In the kitchen Lemongrass being use for remove the fishy away and add fragrance to the food .Thai people always use lemongrass in their cuisine both of meat dish and dessert such as tamarind -flavored soup (Kaeng Som) , hot & sour sop (Tom Yam) ,and Kanom Phing (Thai sweetmeat made of flour, egg and sugar),etc. Endrophine Source: www.praphansarn.com www.hort.purdue.edu