THERE IS MORE TO LEMONS THAN JUST COOKING!

As you will have noticed, there are loads of recipes in this blog that use lemons, but......

There is more to the humble lemon than you might think. Below are 10 medicinal uses for lemons – all easy to use

1. Lemons are invaluable in cases of gout, malaria, rheumatism, and scurvy. They are also useful in fevers and liver complaints. People have found the juice of one lemon taken in a little hot water remove dizzy feelings in the head, accompanied by specks and lights dancing before the eyes, because of the liver being out of order, in half an hour.

2. Lemon-juice acts as a powerful antibacterial. Experiments have proven that the bacteria of malaria, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid and other deadly diseases are destroyed in lemon-juice.

3. The juice of a lemon in hot water may be taken night and morning by sufferers from rheumatism. In the "lemon cure" for gout and rheumatism, the patients begin with one lemon per day and increase the quantity until they arrive at a dozen or more. Probably this is carrying it to excess! Try the juice of one lemon mixed with an equal proportion of hot water, to be taken pretty frequently, in cases of rheumatic fever.

4. A prescription for malaria, given in the Lancet, is the following: "Take a full-sized lemon, cut it in thin transverse slices, rind and all, boil these down in an earthenware jar containing a pint and a half of water, until the decoction is reduced to half a pint. Let this cool on the window-sill overnight, and drink it off in the morning."

5. A Florentine doctor discovered that fresh lemon juice will alleviate the pain of cancerous ulceration of the tongue. His patient sucked slices of lemon.

6. A German doctor found that fresh lemon juice kills the diptheria bacillus, and advises a gargle of diluted lemon juice to diptheric patients. Such a gargle is excellent for sore throat.

7. Lemon juice has been used in the case of nervous palpitation of the heart.

8. Lemon juice rubbed on to corns will eventually do away with them, and if applied to unbroken chilblains will effect a cure.

9. Lemon juice is also an old remedy for the removal of freckles and blackheads from the face. It should be rubbed in at bedtime, after washing with warm water.

10. If you are suffering from diarrhea try squeezing half a lemon in goat’s milk and drink it.

Amazing things lemons!

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