Lemon That Cools Your Body

Lemon That Cools Your Body:

Lemon is a citrus fruit that contains many medicinal values which is uses as culinary and non-culinary forms. As medicine, it can be used for various ailments as it acts as digestive stimulant, astringent action, refrigerant, relieves thirst and acts as expectorant.

Lemon for summer:

Especially Lemon is widely used to beat summer heat, sunstroke, and as thirst reliever.

Lemon for curing diseases:

Lemon, if used in different forms will help to cure or manage many diseases such as for fever, hot-dry skin, Inflammation, cold and flu, sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, Diabetes, scurvy, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, neuralgia as medicine.

Lemon Juice is used for relieving heartburn and nausea, vomiting, indigestion, and reduces excess mucus secretion, for sore throat acts as gargles, swollen or bleeding gums, cleanses the blood stream.

Lemon is good for organs such as kidney, lungs, uterus, GI tract.

Combination of lemon juice and coriander juice is very helpful to reduce edema and indirectly it is helpful for elephantiasis leg and relieves kidney stones and urinary calculi.

Lemon used with honey:

Phlegm discharge and helps for fat reduction, stimulates bile action, even helps to dissolve gallstones.

Lemon Peel can be used to regulate liver function, spleen and pancreas and acts as detoxifier.

Lemon for external Application:

Lemon juice is used as external application with different herbal medicines such as nerve pain, and insect bites.

Lemon Precautions:

Lemon should not be consumed with milk and most of the milk products mangoes, tamarind etc.

Patient who is suffering from peptic ulcer is not indicated to consume raw lemon or more concentrated lemon form.

By

Dr.Vijay Kumar

Santhigiri Healthcare Centre, Mumbai.

www.ayurvijay.in