It is one of the alkalizing foods. Lemon tree blooms and ripens its fruits once every month of the year especially in the month of January and May.
The finest quality fruits are those that are heavy in size. The fruit should possess abundant juices, minimum seeds and little waste fibers. A deep yellow color is the sign of best ripeness and more juices from the fruit. It must be formed when pressed, not hard or too soft.
The only problem with fruit is that it cannot sustain even minor injuries, it can easily rot. Its internal decay can be found in the presence of molds in the injured area. There is sign of discoloration of the skin, softness at the stem end of the fruit. It should not be shrived or hard-skinned especially those that are too soft or spongy when hold as it will affect the quality of the fruits.
The juice of the lemon was being made into substitute vinegar, mostly used in salad dressings. It becomes flavoring agent in culinary preparation. It has sweet and sour taste.
It is used as shampooing to hair to soften that the hair in a lighter natural color. It has alkaline compounds. It has full of vitamin C. Preparation of nutritious drink or other usage should be made and used immediately. It nutrients will be lost if exposed to the air for long period of time. Other nutrients are potassium, vitamin B1, citric acid. It is an acidic fruit that should be taken care with caution especially those having ulcers.
Citric acid if taken can stir many body acids leading to discomfort and side effects. Too much acid in the body will not benefit for the general wellness of health. Acidemia occurred when the body failed to get rid of excess acid in the body. The acid will stay in the body due to its failure to eliminate at rapid rate causing an irritating effect in the various organs of the body especially the stomach. If the body can work in normal rate, the proportion of the acid is only enough as required.
Citrus can treat putrefaction especially those came from the liver. It stirs up accumulated toxin which cannot be carried out by the established way of elimination.
Found to be good in removing impurities in the impaired liver. Drinking citrus should be done occasionally, as regular using it as drink will thin the blood. It should not be taken in large dose in longer period of time.
Respiratory condition like throat infection (sore throat, canker sores) can be benefited by eradicating the inflammation. It is also good remedy for common colds due to changes in weather condition and suppresses it. The immune system can act normally boosted and enhance by lemon to resists to bacterial infection and other pathogenic organisms.
Drinking lemon aid digestion and shield the stomach against harmful toxins. Caution should be taken to those who are allergic with acid as it only worsens his condition.
Being an anti-inflammatory (germicide), lemon is best in the treatment of influenza. It was found to have beneficial effect to cure arteriosclerosis, the thickening of the arterial walls in the body. It has effectiveness in the treatment of rheumatism and other condition like arthritis, gout and other muscular difficulties. It was proven to be good in making circulatory system to do their work annually. Its antiseptic property is best to control bacteria in many diseases of the body. Its bioflavonoids has the power to strengthen the inner lining of the blood vessels (veins, capillaries) in circulating blood to the different body organs.
It alleviates painful varicose veins and may other skin disorders and restore a glowing skin. Mouth ulcers and bleeding gums can be treated by the use of lemon. It acts as tonic to the liver and pancreas and boosts their performance.
With lemon, it can improve weaken appetite and restore its interest to eat. For throat infection, using the juice as gargle or mouthwash is the best option. It relieves painful sting and insect bites because of its anti-bacterial properties.
The following compounds in the lemons are volatile oil, lmonene, alpha-terpinene, alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, citral, coumarins, bioflavonoids, vitamin A, B1, B2, B3 and C, mucilage.
Lemon plant has lemon oil in the skin of the plant and rind. It is being compressed in order to extract its oil. Lemon oil contains chemical properties of limonene, gamma-terpenene, beta-pinene, alpha-pinene, sabinene. The bacterial organisms can be remove quickly by its bactericidal properties especially those bacteria in meningococcus, typhoid bacilli, staphylococcus aureus strain, pneumococcus strain, diphtheria bacterial strain and TB strain.
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