What is the Lemon?
Each year new discoveries are being made about this miracle fruit, the Lemon. A new Vitamin – Vitamin P has been added to the valuable Vitamin C found in the fresh appetizer of the kitchen, the diet laboratory, and even the boudoir.The Lemon has many uses
Like turning water into wine, the lemon with its citric acid quickly changes an acid constitution into an alkaline one. With its heavy fruit calcium it supplies bones, teeth and nervous system with basic nourishment. It contains phosphorus also, and one of its grandest properties is its ability to help “digest” proteins.
The Lemon a healer, an antiseptic
It has been noted that innumerable cases of cataracts which have been eradicated by using drops of half lemon juice and half distilled water in the eye three times daily. Athlete’s foot needs no high-priced ointments for its calming. Lemon juice combined with papaya juice is a so called “digestant” in this condition. Several prominent dentists prescribe the juice of lemon and salt for stubborn pyorrhoea. Lemon juice is also a wonderful germicide, which has destroyed at least 20 different types of germs.
The lemon is one of the speediest acting enemies against germs. Industrial surgeons have used lemon in cases of infection due to injury with remarkable success. 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 that the condition soon leaves them and stays away too.
Asthma
In addition to a general detoxifying diet, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice before each meal and before retiring.
Biliousness
There are physicians who forbid all other medication in bilious cases, instructing their parents to avoid everything but lemon juice for at least a day.
Chills and Fever
Chills and fever may be due to a variety of causes; nevertheless the lemon is always a helpful remedy. Physicians regard it an infallible friend. The juice of one lemon is to be added to a teacup of clover or alfalfa tea, and drunk at one mouthful without milk or sugar twice a day. Lemons are wonderful for fevers, because a feverish body responds to citric acid fruits better than any other fruits. Both lemons and limes contain 5 to 6% citric acid as compared with oranges and grapefruits which contain 1 to 2%.
Coughs and Colds
Roasted lemons – roast until they crack open – are given to cough and cold suffers of all ages, and with remarkable results. When the lemon cracks open, the juice and fresh pineapple juice (equal parts) with honey, is given to the patient who feels immediate benefit. The pineapple juice adds its powerful “digestive” enzymes to those of the lemon, for disintegrating the mucous in the throat.
Diphtheria
In diphtheria also, the lemon juice treatment still proves the power of the strong antiseptic and digestive qualities of the fruit. The throat should be gargled, with the juice every hour or two, and at the same time, from half to a full teaspoon swallowed. This will cut loose the false membrane in the throat and permits it to come out.
Dropsy
Remove skin from a lemon, cut the substance of the fruit into small slices, and cover with honey. To begin with, take juice of one lemon a day; increase gradually until juice of 8 or 10 lemons is taken daily.
Erysipelas
The lemon is a formidable enemy in these conditions; how many people are alarmed by the sight of the infectious erysipelas! Poultices made from lemon juice have been makers of delightful relief after the powerful drugs had proved useless.
Fatigue
Long distance walkers and would be travellers as well as explorers look upon the lemon as a Godsend. When fatigue begins a lemon is sucked through a hole in the top. Quick acting medicine it is, giving almost incredible refreshment. Explorers use lemon for protection against many infections of the tropics. A small amount of lemon juice with 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 towards different water supplies.
Halitosis
Not only is the lemon a local antiseptic for offensive breath, but as an internal alkalizer it protects the would-be fastidious mouth from giving offense.
Headache
Lemon juice with a few teaspoons of hot tea (clover or alfalfa tea recommended) added is the treatment, for those who suffer with hangover headaches – and from headache due to many other causes.
Heartburn
A teaspoon of lemon juice in one half glass of water will relieve heartburn.
Haemorrhage
Lemon juice diluted and taken as cold as possible will help stop it.
Liver complaints
The juice of a lemon should be taken in a glass of hot water one hour before breakfast every morning.
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 through cupboards and rooms.
Rheumatism
Take juice of half a lemon before each meal, and before retiring each night. It may be diluted with distilled water before taking, or used in the form of a strong lemonade, and at the same time apply the juice twice daily – externally. Most people who use this remedy state that after three days the sure but slow power of the lemon shows its cleansing and pain-relieving qualities.
Sore throat
Dilute lemon juice half and half with water and gargle frequently. It is better to use it full strength if possible.
Tarter Remover
Lemon juice makes a delightful dentifrice all by itself. To keep the tooth brushes immersed in diluted lemon juice helps to keep them clean, as well as the teeth.
Urate Stones
Urate stones have been dissolved through the ingestion of lemon juice. Drinking the juice of one or two lemons a day has been effective in 50% of the cases.
Vaginal Hygiene
Diluted lemon juice makes a safe and sane method of vaginal hygiene. Through it is a powerful antiseptic it is nevertheless free from irritating drugs in douches and suppositories.
Lemon an Endurance-maker
Many women, men and children who lack endurance are low in calcium supply. It is then that the lemon cocktail taken twice daily for 30 days changes the body chemistry, giving greater strength, improvement of memory and endurance, as well as complexion. The lemon cocktail consists of lemon juice, powdered soy milk and honey shaken in a cocktail shaker.
Lemon and Bowel stimulation
Juice from one lemon in a glass of warm water is very effective to stimulate bowel movements. Constipation may be alleviated by drinking two cups to four cups of lemon water in the morning before breakfast.
Blood Thinners and Cleansers
Squeeze one lemon in a glass of water and drink one half hour before breakfast to cleanse the toxins and thin the blood.
Ears, nose and throat have their particular care with lemon juice treatment. For stubborn catarrh cases in the following manner: a teaspoon of olive oil with a teaspoon of lemon juice is gradually – through a dropper – allowed to trickle through the nostril. It is also put in the ears 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.
Constipation is treated with inner and outer supplies of lemon juice and olive oil. Four times daily, egg cups of olive oil and lemon juice are taken. The body is massaged three times weekly with lemon juice and oil. Adenoids are treated with diluted lemon juice used in a nasal syringe in a gentle, trickling manner.
In arthritis, lemon juice and oil are gently massaged into the joints after patient has been made warm in a hot bath or a 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 gargle and also 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 raisons, oranges, pineapples, etc. Striking results are said to be experienced by sufferers from colitis with massage of abdomen twice daily (while lying down) with lemon juice and olive oil.
In diarrhoea, used 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, indigestion are treated with increasing amounts of lemon juice inwardly and outwardly. In treatment of jaundice, lemon juice is combined with carrot juice.
The treatment of piles in the lemon health home has been markedly successful. The diet is dry. 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 (enema) – and retained.
The lemon is a very valuable hand and nail bleach. The newer high – lighting rinses for hair contain 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 in lemon juice.
Lemon for its bleaching and freckles removing qualities.
Lemon strawberry toothpaste is a new bleaching agent for teeth darkened by film and alkaline deposits.
A London 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 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 carried 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 each application she secured a bleaching as well as a cleansing treatment of her skin before applying more make-up.
The lemon has host of uses for the hair and scalp. A lemon scalp massage may be given in one’s home by using the new 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.
For the hands, after washing dishes and to remove vegetable stains, rub them well with lemon juice. It will keep hands soft and white, and will remove any strong odour, such as onions.
To remove ink stains, iron rust, or fruit stains, rub the stain well with lemon juice, cover with salt, and put in the sun. Repeat if necessary.
Each year new discoveries are being made about this miracle fruit, the Lemon. A new Vitamin – Vitamin P has been added to the valuable Vitamin C found in the fresh appetizer of the kitchen, the diet laboratory, and even the boudoir.The Lemon has many uses
Like turning water into wine, the lemon with its citric acid quickly changes an acid constitution into an alkaline one. With its heavy fruit calcium it supplies bones, teeth and nervous system with basic nourishment. It contains phosphorus also, and one of its grandest properties is its ability to help “digest” proteins.
The Lemon a healer, an antiseptic
It has been noted that innumerable cases of cataracts which have been eradicated by using drops of half lemon juice and half distilled water in the eye three times daily. Athlete’s foot needs no high-priced ointments for its calming. Lemon juice combined with papaya juice is a so called “digestant” in this condition. Several prominent dentists prescribe the juice of lemon and salt for stubborn pyorrhoea. Lemon juice is also a wonderful germicide, which has destroyed at least 20 different types of germs.
The lemon is one of the speediest acting enemies against germs. Industrial surgeons have used lemon in cases of infection due to injury with remarkable success. 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 that the condition soon leaves them and stays away too.
Asthma
In addition to a general detoxifying diet, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice before each meal and before retiring.
Biliousness
There are physicians who forbid all other medication in bilious cases, instructing their parents to avoid everything but lemon juice for at least a day.
Chills and Fever
Chills and fever may be due to a variety of causes; nevertheless the lemon is always a helpful remedy. Physicians regard it an infallible friend. The juice of one lemon is to be added to a teacup of clover or alfalfa tea, and drunk at one mouthful without milk or sugar twice a day. Lemons are wonderful for fevers, because a feverish body responds to citric acid fruits better than any other fruits. Both lemons and limes contain 5 to 6% citric acid as compared with oranges and grapefruits which contain 1 to 2%.
Coughs and Colds
Roasted lemons – roast until they crack open – are given to cough and cold suffers of all ages, and with remarkable results. When the lemon cracks open, the juice and fresh pineapple juice (equal parts) with honey, is given to the patient who feels immediate benefit. The pineapple juice adds its powerful “digestive” enzymes to those of the lemon, for disintegrating the mucous in the throat.
Diphtheria
In diphtheria also, the lemon juice treatment still proves the power of the strong antiseptic and digestive qualities of the fruit. The throat should be gargled, with the juice every hour or two, and at the same time, from half to a full teaspoon swallowed. This will cut loose the false membrane in the throat and permits it to come out.
Dropsy
Remove skin from a lemon, cut the substance of the fruit into small slices, and cover with honey. To begin with, take juice of one lemon a day; increase gradually until juice of 8 or 10 lemons is taken daily.
Erysipelas
The lemon is a formidable enemy in these conditions; how many people are alarmed by the sight of the infectious erysipelas! Poultices made from lemon juice have been makers of delightful relief after the powerful drugs had proved useless.
Fatigue
Long distance walkers and would be travellers as well as explorers look upon the lemon as a Godsend. When fatigue begins a lemon is sucked through a hole in the top. Quick acting medicine it is, giving almost incredible refreshment. Explorers use lemon for protection against many infections of the tropics. A small amount of lemon juice with 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 towards different water supplies.
Halitosis
Not only is the lemon a local antiseptic for offensive breath, but as an internal alkalizer it protects the would-be fastidious mouth from giving offense.
Headache
Lemon juice with a few teaspoons of hot tea (clover or alfalfa tea recommended) added is the treatment, for those who suffer with hangover headaches – and from headache due to many other causes.
Heartburn
A teaspoon of lemon juice in one half glass of water will relieve heartburn.
Haemorrhage
Lemon juice diluted and taken as cold as possible will help stop it.
Liver complaints
The juice of a lemon should be taken in a glass of hot water one hour before breakfast every morning.
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 through cupboards and rooms.
Rheumatism
Take juice of half a lemon before each meal, and before retiring each night. It may be diluted with distilled water before taking, or used in the form of a strong lemonade, and at the same time apply the juice twice daily – externally. Most people who use this remedy state that after three days the sure but slow power of the lemon shows its cleansing and pain-relieving qualities.
Sore throat
Dilute lemon juice half and half with water and gargle frequently. It is better to use it full strength if possible.
Tarter Remover
Lemon juice makes a delightful dentifrice all by itself. To keep the tooth brushes immersed in diluted lemon juice helps to keep them clean, as well as the teeth.
Urate Stones
Urate stones have been dissolved through the ingestion of lemon juice. Drinking the juice of one or two lemons a day has been effective in 50% of the cases.
Vaginal Hygiene
Diluted lemon juice makes a safe and sane method of vaginal hygiene. Through it is a powerful antiseptic it is nevertheless free from irritating drugs in douches and suppositories.
Lemon an Endurance-maker
Many women, men and children who lack endurance are low in calcium supply. It is then that the lemon cocktail taken twice daily for 30 days changes the body chemistry, giving greater strength, improvement of memory and endurance, as well as complexion. The lemon cocktail consists of lemon juice, powdered soy milk and honey shaken in a cocktail shaker.
Lemon and Bowel stimulation
Juice from one lemon in a glass of warm water is very effective to stimulate bowel movements. Constipation may be alleviated by drinking two cups to four cups of lemon water in the morning before breakfast.
Blood Thinners and Cleansers
Squeeze one lemon in a glass of water and drink one half hour before breakfast to cleanse the toxins and thin the blood.
Ears, nose and throat have their particular care with lemon juice treatment. For stubborn catarrh cases in the following manner: a teaspoon of olive oil with a teaspoon of lemon juice is gradually – through a dropper – allowed to trickle through the nostril. It is also put in the ears 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.
Constipation is treated with inner and outer supplies of lemon juice and olive oil. Four times daily, egg cups of olive oil and lemon juice are taken. The body is massaged three times weekly with lemon juice and oil. Adenoids are treated with diluted lemon juice used in a nasal syringe in a gentle, trickling manner.
In arthritis, lemon juice and oil are gently massaged into the joints after patient has been made warm in a hot bath or a 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 gargle and also 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 raisons, oranges, pineapples, etc. Striking results are said to be experienced by sufferers from colitis with massage of abdomen twice daily (while lying down) with lemon juice and olive oil.
In diarrhoea, used 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, indigestion are treated with increasing amounts of lemon juice inwardly and outwardly. In treatment of jaundice, lemon juice is combined with carrot juice.
The treatment of piles in the lemon health home has been markedly successful. The diet is dry. 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 (enema) – and retained.
The lemon is a very valuable hand and nail bleach. The newer high – lighting rinses for hair contain 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 in lemon juice.
Lemon for its bleaching and freckles removing qualities.
Lemon strawberry toothpaste is a new bleaching agent for teeth darkened by film and alkaline deposits.
A London 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 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 carried 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 each application she secured a bleaching as well as a cleansing treatment of her skin before applying more make-up.
The lemon has host of uses for the hair and scalp. A lemon scalp massage may be given in one’s home by using the new 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.
For the hands, after washing dishes and to remove vegetable stains, rub them well with lemon juice. It will keep hands soft and white, and will remove any strong odour, such as onions.
To remove ink stains, iron rust, or fruit stains, rub the stain well with lemon juice, cover with salt, and put in the sun. Repeat if necessary.