You can sip on lemongrass tea and bid adieu to indigestion, stomach pain, diarrhea, and gastric ulcers. It also helps ease nausea, bloating, and constipation.
Drinking lemongrass tea or smelling lemongrass can be therapeutic and ease out symptoms of anxiety, stress, & depression. It's widely used as an essential oil for aromatherapy.
Lemongrass is abundant with citral and geranial, two anti-inflammatory compounds that reduce inflammations. Even lemongrass oil has powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
As per a study conducted in 2007 with rats that were fed with high cholesterol diet for 14 days, lemongrass was found to be active in bringing down their cholesterol levels.
Lemongrass has anti-bacterial & anti-fungal properties that treats dandruff. To use it naturally: just boil two-three leaves in water, cool it down, & rinse your hair with it.