PROPERTIES

Medicinal Properties >>>

Of yesterday and of today ...
Even if during the past centuries the lemon has been considered a miraculous remedy for the scurvy, we have to wait for the beginning of the XVIII century before it obtain its official and noble place in the medicinal domain. Though tested in England for its many properties, only in 1932 we discover its real secret: it is rich of C vitamin.

In Indonesia, from many centuries, when a woman has a headache she is sent to wash the dishes or the linen ... Indeed in the islands there’s the common habit of cutting lemons and putting them in the washing water to take away the fats and clean to replace soap. Doctors say that if you put hands inside hot water with lemon for a while, a part of the blood is drained from the brain to the head and the headache goes away after having accomplished a daily task. If the headache is quite strong, doctors recommend standing barefoot in a bowl filled with hot water with 3 or 4 lemons cut in pieces.

Anti rheumatic

Anti scorbutic (Nature)

Antiseptic

Bleaching

In order to have very white teeth, brush them twice a week with a mix of not diluted lemon, lime (green lemon) and grapefruit juice (same quantities). This helps also to reduce tartar. On the other way, try to avoid biting and sucking lemons, because of the high concentration of citric acid, a prolonged contact can damage the enamel.

Tranquillizer

Apply on insect bites if you want to soothe the pain or the itching in a few minutes – this was the remedy used by Thor Heyerdahl during his expeditions as he tells in the Fatu-Hiva.

Dietetic (juice)

The lemon juice is famous for its dietetic properties. It’s a powerful cleaner able to regenerate the digestive system often stirred by a bad kind of alimentation. In effect, it dissolves and eliminates fats.

Digestive

  • Anti vomit
  • hepatic regulator
  • it helps the gastro-hepatic and pancreatic secretions tonic

Reduces the effects caused by allergies

E.g. sinus, hay fever, asthma, bronchitis problems, etc.

Stop the gum bleeding

If your gums tend to bleed after you have brushed your teeth, take an orange skin and firmly rub its inside (white side) close to your teeth for a few minutes every day and the bleeding should diminish after a few days

Expectorant

Because of its essential oil containing more or less 95% of terpens

Tonic

Reduces mouth ulcers

Gargle your mouth with lemon juice

Vermifugal

Dietetic Properties >>>

The lemon juice is famous for its dietetic properties. It’s a powerful cleaner able to regenerate the digestive system often stirred by a bad kind of alimentation. In effect, it dissolves and eliminates fats.

Replace vinegar by lemon juice in your vinaigrette;
Squash a lime or a lemon in your butter if you want to coat a fish;
Baste your cake with lemon juice and honey, a healthy and gluttonous way to ice your dessert.

Cosmetology Properties >>>

Softener

Emollient

Moisturizing

Purifier

Skin Tonic

Jacline has drawn off the secret of Paul Nienast who made stars look younger thanks to a lemon cream.. Paul Nienast is the owner of a famous beauty institute in a very chic area of Dallas, at the 2603 of Oaklawn Avenue; in his institute he uses only natural products. He gave us a few recipes...

Anti-wrinkle remedy with lemon and cream

In order to eliminate or attenuate wrinkles, here it is the technique of Paul Nienast which has to be used every morning and evening for a few weeks.

  1. 1. take 2 slices of lemon and put hem in a wood bowl (very important because the lemon doesn’t have to touch plastic, or metal);
    - if your skin is very greasy, use 4 slices of lemon
    - if your skin is very dry, use only 1 slice of lemon and double
    the quantity of milk-dream (mentioned below);
  2. cover the slices with half cream and half milk slightly warmed up in a pan;
  3. cover the bowl and let it rest for 3 hrs;
  4. take this solution and massage your face with your fingers
    doing rotating movements for a few minutes;
  5. let it dry; then take it of with a wet toilet glove
    where you have previously put 2 or 3 drops of olive oil

To diminish skin bleached spots

  • squash 3-4 lemons and a lime in a wood bowl; add a few drops of hot water;
  • moisten a cloth and apply on the skin bleached spot; leave for 30 minutes;
  • do the same operation every day till the colour of your skin will be more uniform

To give new brightness to your hair

Rinse your hair with some lemon juice after your shampoo to make it bright again

Thanks to its astringent properties, the lemon is an ally against the greasy skin

In order to diminish the greasy skin and absorb comedos press a lemon on some cotton wool and pass it on the affected regions of your skin. Lemons help pores to close again.