Homemade Cures and Beauty Treatments Using Lemons
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Uses For Lemons
According to Pamela Allerdice author of Natural Cures A - Z the lemon has a long traditional use as a medicine. The lemon has antiseptic properties. The pulp can be used as a poultice to staunch bleeding and the juice makes an excellent gargle for a sore throat. The lemon also has a mild sedative action and will thus reduce fever, as well as promoting bile activity and therefore easing any indigestion.
Lemon is most famous for treating scurvy. Did you know even today, English sailors are required by law to drink a glass of lemon juice daily when at sea? Lemons are most important as a rich source of vitamin C and the bioflavinoids, which maintain the health of the skin's collagen content and strengthen the tiny capillaries seen near the surface of the skin. Allerdice recommends eating lemons for maximum natural health and beauty benefit as well as applying them to the skin and hair as a natural cosmetic. My daughter sprinkles sugar on them and eats lemons that way. :) :D
Lemons juice has great toning effects, mild deodorant properties and will provide a gentle exfoliant action. Allerdice says you can use in many ways -
Uses for Lemon Juice
Hair Rinse
In bath to whiten skin or bleach freckles
Antibacterial dandruff treatment
Toothe cleanser
As a lotion to soothe a sunburned nose or shoulders
Beauty Treatments With Lemons from Natural Cures A - Z
Don't throw away any squeezed-out lemon halves. Turned inside out and dipped in sugar, you can use them mitt-style, on roughened ankles or elbows, before rinsing and applying a moisturizing cream.
If your face gets oily in the heat, squeeze the juice of half a lemon into a cup of water. Saturate cotton balls with the solution, chill and apply to nose and forehead for instant shine control.
To refine and even out a splotchy tan, blend the juice of 1 lemon with 1/4 cup whole milk. Spread liberally over tanned areas, leave for 20 minutes, then rinse well with cool water.
Mix lemon juice with cider vinegar, then stir through warm bath water and enjoy a refreshing and invigorating bath.
Cleanse your body of toxins and wake up skin - Squeeze fresh lemon juice into two of the eight glasses of water you drink a day.
Natural Cold Remedy With Lemon
Here is a great natural cure for cough, cold or flu symptoms. Lemon and honey are great soothers for sore throats and hot fluids open up nasal passages. Try this recipe for hot lemonade:
Hot Lemonade - Natural Cold, Cough or Flu Remedy
Take one big water glass. Into the bottom of it put 1 large spoonful of honey and 1 cinnamon stick. Slice half a lemon into thin slices and put those in, too. Now squeeze the remaining lemon half, and 1 more lemon, and put the juice of both into the glass. Fill with hot water, stir, and serve to the sick person with the glass wrapped in a napkin.
Lemon Plants
If you like the lemon scent, there are all kinds of plants you can grow that have it. Here is a list:
Lemongrass - Needs full sun and well draining moist soil. Can use in stir-fires, salsas, marinades, pork, poultry, lemonande and tea.
Lemon mint - Has purple spring-summer blooms. Plant in a sunny location and tolerates various well draining soils. Use it in tea or potpourri. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Lemon Verbena -Plant in a sunny well draining spot. The narrow rough-textured leaves carry an intense lemon flavor. Add chopped leaves to fruit salad, muffins, soft cheeses, stir-fry and vegetable dishes, pultry or fish, tea and desserts.
Lemon thyme - Plant in sun to bright shade in a well-draining border or container. Lavender-pink to white flowers appear in summer. Sprinkle fresh leaves on fish, chicken, corn, beans and potatoes.
Lemon-scented geraniums - Plant in a sunny well draining bed or container. Use the leaves to flavor sugar, cakes, salads or drinks.
Lemon savory - Plant it in sun to part sun and give excellent drainage. Use the small leaves in drinks and on meat.
Lemon santolina - Needs sun and good drainage. Has yellow button blooms. Can be grown in containers or used as a border plant.
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Me too. I especially love Meyer Lemons and I planted a Meyer Lemon tree in the yard this winter. I already have a couple of tiny lemons.
I use lemon juice to bleach the stains out of our regular tea jug. Instead of using bleach, I simply make a jug of lemonade. When it's gone.....so are the tea stains.
Hey Jmell, that is a great idea. I am going to try that with my coffee mug.
Lemon is so multi-purposes. For myself, I usually sip hot lemonade when I have a sore throat. It is the best remedy for me.
Do you mean regular lemonade like we would usually drink cold in the summertime?
Ooooooh!~ This is truly a goooood one!!~ Just LOVE it!! Encore, Encore!! :)
Thank you so much, makes me feel great.
Lgali 3 years ago
I love lemons