Limes & Lemons as Home Remedies

two tablespoonfuls before each meal and before retiring - in addition to a starch-free and milk-free diet.

Lemon juice also has an antiseptic value and a healing and dissolving effect on abnormal tissues. When mixed with almond or olive oil, it is a wonderful remedy for eczema, applied externally and used internally as well. In bad cases of eczema, use a starchless, all fruit diet, including the lemon and oil internally and apply the lemon and fresh pineapple juice externally every hour until cured.

Athlete's foot yields quickly to the application of lemon juice, especially when combined with fresh papaya juice. The dissolving effect of lemon juice has been shown also in cataracts, by putting several drops of a solution made up of equal parts of lemon juice and distilled water in the affected eye or eyes three times daily.

For pyorrhea [periodontitis], a combination of lemon juice and table salt rubbed into the gums several times daily has given excellent results after other remedies had failed. This also cleanses and whitens discoloured [discolored] teeth. Felons [whitlows] are dissolved by inserting the inflamed finger or toe into a half of a lemon over night and cleaning it up in the morning.

Erysipelas [streptococcus], considered a highly infectious disease, yields nicely to lemon juice compresses, and is healed in this simple way after all the drugs have failed to give relief.

Coughs and colds are helped by lemon juice, especially when mixed with honey, some garlic and fresh pineapple juice. If the fresh pineapple juice is not available, the canned will do. The mixture is even effective without the pineapple juice, but the addition of the pineapple juice yields quicker results. This is a wonderful remedy even in diphtheria and other throat conditions. For diphtheria the lemons can also be roasted until they crack open, then extract the juice and mix it with the above ingredients to dissolve the stringy mucous [mucus] in the throat so that it can be expectorated by the patient. It would also be helpful for the patient to gargle some