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- 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
It reduces the effects caused by allergies
· E.g. sinus, hay fever, asthma, bronchitis problems, etc.
It arrest 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 It reduces mouth ulcers
· Gargle your mouth with lemon juice
Vermifugal
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: 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.
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- Cosmetology Properties
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· 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. 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.
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