Detox with Lemon

Detox With Lemon

Lemon juice is very useful for detoxification, weight control, and beautification! You should consume it every day even if you are not doing any official dieting. You are winning half of the battle simply by consuming lemon juice in your daily routine and doing nothing else.

Lemon juice can also be applied externally, such as washing vegetable or meat (it makes tomatoes sweet and neutralize harmful substance like pesticide), removing body odor (armpit), and disinfecting and controlling acne.

Lemon juice is an astringent and is anti-inflammatory. It can be applied as garble for sore throat and as lotion to sunburn. It is recommended for acute rheumatism due to its anti-inflammatory property. Lemon juice can bring relief from athlete’s foot, stings and bites of insects, sore throats, and bleeding gums. It also lighten old acne scars and marks on skin.

Lemon has an alkalizing effect to the body once it is digested, because of the high alkaline minerals it contains. Alkaline food is healthy to the body. In general, healthy food like fruits and vegetables are usually alkaline, while animal proteins and processed food or drink are acidic to the body.

Human is born with alkaline bloodstream, which is pH 7.4, but as we get older, we accumulate more acids in the body due to unhealthy diets and polluted environment. It becomes harder for the body to maintain its ideal pH rate. Acids in the cells, blood, and joints cause all kind of diseases and maladies such as cancer, arthritis, ulcers, weight gains, insomnia, allergies, bone loss, fatigues, and many others. You may want to do a lemon cleanse help bring your body back to normal and restore youth if you have been too acidic with your diet.

Lemon contains a high amount of vitamin C and citric acid. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, which reduces aging and diseases that are caused by harmful free radicals that attack our cells and bodies everyday. In order words, vitamin C delays wrinkles as we age.

Citric acid has been proven to break kidney stones and prevent them from forming or growing in size. It is also claimed citrus acid can cure heartburn, bloating, and belching. It aids digestion and bowel movement, preventing constipation.

For people who are very irritable to acidic food, such as people who have ulcerative colitis, they should avoid citric acid. The conditions are caused by acidic stomach and digestive tract, which indicates excessive toxins in the system. Citrus acid would be too much for them as it would stir up the inactive acid and toxins in the body. They should consume vegetable juice to detox and heal, before attempting to enjoy the benefit of lemon and citric acid.

Lemon is good against all kind of fever and influenza. Citrus acid strengthen the body better than most nutrients during fever, and vitamin C is potent cure to all cold and flu. If more doctors simply recommend lemon as cure to all cold and flu, then SARS, H5N1, or Swine flu won’t be so problematic and causing governments billions of dollars to develop vaccines and cures for them.

The juice is an effective antidote for heavy-metal poisoning and narcotic poisoning. It has been known to cure hangover.

It also strengthen blood vessels and improve circulatory problems in general.

For weight loss purpose, lemon helps weight loss in many ways, one of the most beneficial ways is curing and boosting the liver which is the main organ for breaking down fats and maintaining high metabolism (High metabolism = slim). A toxic or fatty liver cannot do its job properly, but lemon juice provides necessary aids for the liver to function well.