Lemon- Qualities & Benefits !!

Qualities: Lemon is sour, removes vata, it is light and increases digestive fire. It removes germs, stomachache, improves appetite, and is very beneficial in case of vata, pitta, kapha and pain.

Pimples and acnes: Apply lemon juice on face and clean to remove pimples and acne. Mix equal quantities of lemon, basil and black kasondi juice and keep it under sun till it gets thick. Apply on face. Mix lemon juice with honey and apply on face to make the skin wrinkle free.

Mouth ulcers: Rub lemon peel on tongue and gums and drink 20-30 gm lemon juice regularly to relieve mouth ulcers.

Thirst: lemon juice is the best way to quench thirst.

Stomachache: eat the peel of one raw lemon daily to overcome stomachache caused mainly after meals. It overcomes windy complaint.

Vomiting: take five to ten ml fresh lemon juice to control vomiting occurring after meals.

Digestive fire: mix a little bit of ginger and black pepper powder in lemon juice and drink to increase digestive fire, indigestion, vata, kapha. Indigestion and stomachache: mix three gram lemon juice, ten gram lime water, ten gram honey and take 20 drops at a time to improve digestion.

Loss of appetite: Add two times water in lemon juice; mix one or two clove and black pepper powder to improve digestion.
Slice a lemon, sprinkle black salt and lick to improve appetite. Lemon juice increases digestive fire. Germs: lemon juice destroys bacteria of typhoid, dysentery, cholera etc.

Jaundice: apply lemon juice in eyes to cure jaundice.

Liver: Add lemon juice and sugar candy in lukewarm water and drink in the morning to improve liver functioning. Mix roasted Ajowan and rock salt and drink lemon juice to overcome liver and spleen diseases.

Obesity: add two spoons of lemon juice and one spoon of honey in lukewarm water and drink in the morning to reduce weight.

Cholera: take juice of two lemons before meals or take lemon juice with sugar candy to cure cholera

Pitta: mix five-gram sugar candy in juice of one lemon and drink to overcome pitta.

Arthritis: take one to two gram lemon juices every four hours.

Insect bite: apply lemon juice on bitten area to reduce pain.

Scorpion bite: grind nine grams lemon seeds, eight gram rock salt and take it to remove poison of scorpion.

Fever: slice lemon, apply black pepper powder and rock salt on one half and sugar candy powder on the other half. Heat and lick the pieces to control vomiting caused after monsoon season.

Influenza: mix lemon juice and sugar candy in hot water and drink in this case.

Skin ailments: slice lemon and rub on skin in case of ringworm, eczema, black spots etc.

Regards,
Sunil