Lemon - yearly medicine
All parts of lemon tree are used for medicine, cure in all four seasons of the year. However, lemon is used best in summer - autumn.
Lemon juice: For antipyretic usage, digestion, anti - inflame. Lemon has sour taste, so in one time, do not eat many both using on skin and drinking. Do not eat lemon to slim. Because of cold property in lemon juice, avoid using it in cold property cases such as chill.
Based on western medicine, nitric acid has much in lemon. Nitric acid mixes with calcium into dissolvable solution which is useful for people having hypertension, useful for treating pigment skin in faces.
Lemon has sour taste so that both eastern and western medicine contraindicate in stomach ulcer cases.
Lemon peel: Useful for digestion, making sputum, treating indigestion, stomachache, dyspepsia, vomiting.
Peel has cool property so that we can cut lemon into slices, take both peel and juice for hot drink to cure cold. For example, we can drop lemon slices into hot tea.
Based on western medicine, lemon peel is useful for digestion, increasing peristaltic bowel, making fart, getting rid of sputum. White - spongy part of peel makes to stop diarrhea because of peptic in it. Peel also contains calcium peptate and flavonoit that can increase immunity, avoid atherosclerosis .
Lemon leaves: Use to exhale for antipyretic. Grind tender leaves, cover navel of child having urine retention , distend stomach. Eating lemon leaves with boiled chicken is good taste and good for digestion because it has much attar.
Western medicine affirms that tender branches and leaves lemon have nice attar using to produce perfume, cream for skin.
Root: Treat cough. Mixing lemon roots with lemon pips, alums, and gingers treats snake bite.
Lemon pip: Getting rid of parasitic worms, treat snake bite, cough of children. Press for oil to make soap.
Body skin: Use to make medicine for treat digestion
Lemon for medicine and beauty product
Treat influenza , sore throat : Dry lemon juice with honey.
Treat headache: Cut lemon into slices. With some lime, pasting to temples treats headache.
Insect bite: Drop or cover lemon on insect bite.
Migraine: Put lemon with peel in brow, then cover with towel; take down when feeling hot. Or we can make patients to soak their legs in water dissolved with lemon juice.
Painful , weary legs: Light massage with lemon in pain.
Mucous membrane tongue ulcer: Lemon: 12 g, tapioca:12 g, boiled water: 150 ml. Drink hot 1-2 times/day.
Cough up blood: Lemon: 3 fruits, molasses: 30 ml, water: 750 ml, simmer to remain 1/3. Cut lemon to be small and put to water to simmer. Drink 1 time/day, drink 3 days continuously, eat both liquid and solid parts.
Whitlow: Lemon: 1 fruit. Pierce a hole equal to fingers or toes. Put salt into, bake to be hot. When it is warm, put fingers or toes into it and bind.
Nauseate dyspepsia: Squeeze all juice of lemon, cut into slices, and knead with honey. Eat 3 fruits/day.
Dry skin, tighten pore, skin bound: Use lemon juice. Especially with oily skin, use washy juice with message. Japanese bathes with lemon flour helping increase circulation to make skin ruddy. Wash face with washy lemon juice to make white skin. Put lemon juice into bathtub, bathe for clean and scented skin, sterilize . Especially good for children in summer, prevent from heat rash.
Wash hair: Use lemon juice to wash hair for soft and clean dandruff.
Make mask to cure oily skin: Use 2 spoons of rice bran, 2 spoons of buckwheat flour, 2-3 drops of lemon juice, put warm water into clamminess. Or: Pulverize almond seeds, cucumber, 2-3 drops of lemon juice. Before using mask, wash face cleanly. Cover face in 15-30 minutes. Then, wash face with pure water.
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