Another of natures broad-spectrum miracles - we had to write an ebook to list its benefits and uses
There are so many benefits associated with this marvellous fruit that we
wrote an ebook because we ran out of room on this webpage.
If you are travelling or don't have ready access to fresh lemons then our Lemon Tincture is the best way to bring the miraculous benefits of the Lemon into your life.
Digestion improvements
Lemon juice in warm (body-temperature) water relieves queasiness, heartburn, heartburn, bloating and gas. Your bowels work better and eliminate waste more efficiently eliminating constipation. Lemon's blood purifiication and liver tonic properties also help you digest more efficiently by helping your liver produce more bile.
Aids Weight Loss
Drinking lemon water helps you shed weight faster by reducing the desire to eat as well as helping to breakdown and eliminate body fat.
Eliminates Winter Blues
Lemon water is wonderful in cases of flu, fever and colds.
Skin improvements
Lemon, is a natural antiseptic which can quickly deal with dermatological problems and conditions. Lemon's high vitamin C content vitalises your skin (as well as the rest of you) making it glow and enhancing your beauty. It is an ancient remedy for remove wrinkles and and other signs of ageing.
Dental improvements
Lemon water can help with toothache, reduce bleeding of gums, mouth odours and other oral problems.
Regulates Blood Pressure
Lemon's high potassium content is a great help in normalising blood pressure and drinking it can also contribute to reducing stress and anxiety.
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Here are some more of Lemon's miraculous benefits
(for the full story get our 44 fat-free page ebook - the Miracle of the Lemon).
The Lemon DeTox Drink
Lemons are the key ingredient in a very popular and effective detox drink for detoxing your system and losing weight. The recipe and instructions for the Lemon DeTox Drink are included in our “The Miracle of the Lemon ebook”
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The Lemon Cholesterol Cleanse
The Lemon is central to an effective and side-effect-free remedy for high levels of cholesterol in the body.
Plaque in the arteries is a major cause of cardiovascular problems as it restricts the blood flow. The lemon and garlic cleanse takes about 6 weeks using a simple recipe and will dissolve plaque within the body. In so many cases, once the plaque begins to disappear, heart surgery is not needed.
Excessive plaque deposits can have many side affects, sight and hearing can become significantly impaired for example. These side-effects will be reduced with the lemon cholesterol cleanse and - if sustained, the cleanse will eradicate the plaque and it's side-effects.
I recommend this cheap, safe and therapeutic course of treatment be repeated once a year.
The recipe and instructions for the Lemon Cholesterol Cleanse are included in our “
The Miracle of the Lemon ebook”.
The Lemon Liver and Gall Bladder Flush
Cleansing the liver of gallstones dramatically improves liver function, heartburn, and digestion which is the basis of your whole health. You can expect your allergies to disappear, too, more with
each cleanse you do! Incredibly, it also eliminates shoulder, upper arm, and upper back pain. You have more energy and will have an increased sense of well being.
Cleanse your liver twice a year minimum � You may wish to cleanse the liver 4 times per year for the first year.
The recipe and complete instructions for the Lemon Liver and Gall Bladder Flush are included in our “
The Miracle of the Lemon ebook”.
Even more benefits and uses of lemons and lemon juice:
(for more detailed descriptions you'll need to get
our ebook - the Miracle of the Lemon - 44 fat-free pages of how you can use this wonderful fruit to restore and maintain health and vitality, naturally).
BILIOUSNESS AND THE LEMON
In cases of drinking nothing but lemon juice and water all day cleans the system and helps overcome the biliousness. Lemon juice daily on an empty stomach first thing in the morning eliminates water retention and helps with weight reduction and keeps the system alkaline.
CHILLS AND FEVERS
Chills and fevers may be due to a variety of causes, never the less the lemon is always a helpful remedy. Here is a method that works well. The juice of one lemon is to be added to a cup of hot water with honey and drunk at once every 2 hours till fever or chill subsides.
CHINESE DOCTORS USE LEMON FOR MEDICINE
When Chinese doctors reveal their remedies, there is always something worthwhile to read. The clever cure of an infected finger or toe is dealt with in this way. The top of the lemon is cut off, the finger or toe is inserted into the lemon, and bound up. In the morning the infection is ready to be cleansed and well on the way to healing.
DIPTHERIA
- the Lemon juice treatment still proves the power of the strong antisesptic and digesative qualities of the fruit..
The throat should be gargled with the juice every hour or two, and at the same time, 1/2 to 1 tsp. should be swallowed. This cuts loose the false membrane in the throat and permits it to come out."
HEADACHE
Lemon juice with a few teaspoons of hot tea added is the treatment of a sophisticated New York bartender, for those who suffer with hangover headaches and from headaches due to many other causes mainly caused due to an over acid condition. He converts his customers to this regime, and weans them away from drug remedies completely.
ASTHMA
In addition to a general detoxifying diet and eliminating dairy products and wheat and taking 2 tablespoons of lemon juice before each meal, and before retiring. Asthma soon clears up.
LEMON FOR ENDURANCE
Many women, men, and children who lack endurance are low in calcium supply. A lemon cocktail (the recipe is in our
ebook) taken twice daily for 30 days changes the body chemistry, giving greater strength, improvement of memory, and endurance, as well as complexion.
FATIGUE
Long distance walkers and world travellers as well as explorers look upon the lemon as a Godsend. When fatigue begins, sucking a lemon through a hole in the top. It is a quick acting rejuvenator, giving almost unbelievable refreshment. Explorers use lemon for protection against many infections of the tropics. A small amount of lemon juice will quench thirst more effectively than many times the amount of water. Experienced travellers declare that when they add lemon juice to ordinary drinking water, in various localities, it acts as an antiseptic and prevents illness due to allergy toward different water supplies.
COUGHS AND COLDS
Roasted lemons - roasted until they crack open - are given to cough and cold sufferers of all ages, and with marked success.
When the lemon cracks open, the juice, with brown sugar and fresh pineapple juice, gives immediate relief.
The pineapple adds its powerful "digestive" enzymes to those of the lemon, for disintegrating the mucous in the throat.
LEMON - A HEALER AND AN ANTISEPTIC
Innumerable reports of cases of cataracts, which have been eradicated by using lemon juice (the method is in our ebook).
Athlete's foot, tinea and ringworm have been healed by using lemon juice.
Lemon juice combined with papaya juice is a so-called "digestant" and is excellent for digestive problems.
Several prominent dentists prescribe the juice of lemon and salt for stubborn pyorrhoea. |
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The Lemon - supreme remedy for winters woes
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The lemon is one of the speediest acting enemies against germs. Industrial surgeons have used lemon in cases of infection due to injury, with marked success. Harley Street, specialists in London, gives the children of royalty, lemon and honey for sore throat. Many people who have spent fortunes on stubborn forms of eczema have been led to the homely lemon when all their money was gone, to find the condition soon leaves them, and stays away, too.
HALITOSIS
Not only is the lemon a local antiseptic for offensive breath, but as an internal alkalizer. Screen and dramatic stars drink lemon juice drinks sweetened with a little honey, 2-3 times daily to guarantee sweet breath.
LEMON IS A FORMIDABLE ENEMY IN THESE CONDITIONS
How many people are terrified by the sight of infectious erysipelas! Poultices made from lemon juice have been producers of magic relief after other powerful drugs have proved useless.
SCARLET FEVER
Dr. George W. Wood makes this statement about Scarlet Fever: "I can cure 49 out of 50 cases of scarlet fever with lemon and gum arabic. At the beginning of attack place the child in bed, giving it a drink of some lemonade with gum arabic, - 1/2 teaspoon of the gum with a glass of lemonade. Cover the abdomen with dry flannel, then wrap the child in a white woollen blanket wrung out of hot water, put a dry blanket on top, then add sufficient covering to cause perspiration. In some cases placing hot water bags outside the outer blanket quickly induces this. After one hour of perspiration, during which time lemonade and gum arabic have been given freely to drink, the child should be wiped dry and made comfortable as to the amount of clothing. Lemon juice tends to remove deposits, which form on the inner part of the mouth and helps with ulceration.
RHEUMATISM
Take the juice of 1/2 lemon before each meal and before retiring each night mixed in water and apply the juice 2x daily externally on the sore areas. After 3 days the sure but slow power of the lemon shows it's cleansing and pain-relieving qualities.
SCURVY
The world well knows today that the lemon juice cure for scurvy is effective. There are many cases bordering on scurvy, however, showing a lack of the powerful lemon vitamins which give quick improvement in better bowel section, healing of mouth conditions, and a greater immunity to infection, when a diet very rich in vitamin C which abounds in lemon is followed.
Lemon Peel - its appeal is universal
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TARTAR REMOVER
Lemon juice makes a delightful dentifrice all by itself. Toothbrushes immersed in lemon juice, diluted with water, remain clean, as well as do the teeth.
LEMON PEEL - A GREAT DELICACY
Great epicures insist on the free use of lemon peel, grated, in all cakes. It lends an indefinable something of luxury to the taste of any cake, or any flavour, and does not interfere with other flavours, either in the frosting of the cake or in the body of the cake itself.
As one who has not yet tasted luxury hamburger can realize what is in store for him. Ground onion with ground lemon peel added to beef before broiling or frying is a greater treat than the most expensive cuts of meat. The costliest of chocolates in Paris contain finely ground lemon peel. Ground lemon peel is placed in the finest of European fruit and vegetable salads. In Berlin, Paris, and throughout Italy their incomparable soups contain ground lemon peel. Lemon peel marmalade graces the breakfast tables of continental resorts. Many epicures are seen using ground lemon peel in their breakfast eggs.
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LEMONS AND MOTH PREVENTATIVES
A charming French custom to keep closets free from moths is to take ripe lemons and stick them with cloves all over the skin. The heavily studded lemons slowly dry with their cloves, leaving a marvellous odour throughout the closets and rooms.
THE SOPHISTICATED LEMON
This trick was learned from important men of business and professional life, when they had to be on their toes in the morning after a night of feasting and celebration. A lemon is quartered. It is then sprinkled with salt, and all eaten except the rind, before breakfast. Public speakers say this trick is an important stimulant to them before going on the platform.
VAGINAL HYGIENE
Diluted lemon juice makes a safe and sane method of vaginal hygiene. Though it is a powerful antiseptic it is nevertheless free from irritating drugs in douches and suppositories.
OTHER LEMON CURES
People who have ear, nose, and throat problems have had incredible results by eliminating catarrh with lemon juice treatment. Stubborn catarrh cases are helped with a teaspoonful of olive oil with a teaspoon of lemon juice gradually added and with an eye dropper allowed to trickle through each nostril or put into the ears each day or as a preventative each week for cleansing and tonic properties.
Tiny amounts of lemon juice and olive oil are added to baby food at weaning time, and increased with the age of the child. This method is said to prevent ordinary children's diseases, through its peculiar immunity giving qualities. |
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abundant lemons - abundant benefits
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Constipation is treated with inner and outer supplies of lemon juice and olive oil. Four time's daily egg cups of olive oil and lemon juice are taken. The body is massaged 3 times weekly with lemon juice and oil.
Adenoids are treated with diluted lemon juice used in a nasal syringe in a gentle, trickling manner.
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arthritis, lemon juice and oil are gently massaged into the joints after patient has been made warm in a hot bath, or blanket bath in bed.
Lemon pulp poultices are freely used for
boils, abscesses, and skin eruptions generally. Juice is of course used internally also.
In
bronchitis, lemon and oil are used as a gargle, and also as an exterior massage for throat and chest.
In
cirrhosis of the liver, as many as a dozen lemons are used daily with a starch free diet, heavily supplied with fruits such as raisins, oranges, pineapples, etc. Striking results are said to be experienced by sufferers of
colitis, with a massage of the abdomen twice daily (while lying down) with lemon juice and oil.
In
diarrhoea, apple pulp and lemon juice for both young and old. In eczema, lemon juice and raw pineapple juice are applied every hour, and with a starchless diet, until condition is cured.
Influenza, headache, and indigestion are treated with increasing amounts of lemon juice inwardly and outwardly. In treatment of
jaundice, lemon juice is combined with carrot juice.
Results in the treatment of
lack of motivation, mental disorders and neurasthenia with olive oil and lemon juice have been very beneficial. 1 Tablespoon olive oil and the juice of 1 lemon juice 2 xs per day. The beneficial calcium, usually low in neurasthenia, is supplied with the nerve nourishing properties of olive oil, to give zest to a patients diet. Daily massage of lemon juice and olive oil is excellent too.
Age spots and freckles become lightened with the application of lemon juice.
The treatment of piles has been markedly successful. The diet is dry for a day. No water is used - only fruits and vegetables. At night a small teacup of warm olive oil and lemon juice, equal parts, is very gently inserted rectally--and retained. I have found a clove of peeled garlic let stand for 5 minutes in olive oil so it won't burn the anus works incredibly well. Insert in the anus and leave at night. Usually the pile has gone back inside by the morning.
COSMETICS AND LEMON
The lemon is a very valuable
hand and nail bleach. The newer highlighting rinses for hair contains lemon. The pore reducing treatment in the ultra-modern beauty shop contains natural lemon juice, and one of the constituents in an effective breast reducer-is lemon juice.
A new liquid powder designed for both treatment and beautification, contains natural juice of lemon for its ability to ward off facial and nose shine-also for its
bleaching and freckle removing qualities.
Lemon strawberry tooth powder is a new
bleaching agent for teeth darkened by film and alkaline deposits.
A dancing teacher keeps her pupils'
feet and joints pliant with olive oil and lemon juice massage before and after all lessons, and physical culture experts are now using a remarkable massage cream made from egg yolk, lemon, and olive oil.
Actresses
prevent dark circled eyes by twice daily applications of lemon juice. It is used to prevent yellow appearance of the neck. One clever actress carries with her at all times the new cleansing pads for removing make-up during the day. She adds lemon juice to the jar of pads so that with each application she secures a bleaching as well as a cleansing treatment of her skin before applying her make-up.
The lemon has a host of uses for
hair and scalp. A lemon scalp massage may be given in ones own home by using the dehydrated lemon powder, which is allowed to remain on during the night for its powerful tonic properties, as well as its ability to combat many scalp infections.
Contra-indications: None that we are aware of however some
[2] opine that it should not be used in excess by pregnant or breastfeeding women.
