The Home
By Maureen
Hints About Lemons
This fruit is invaluable for its medicinal properties. For inactivity of the liver it is without •equal. Taka night and morning the juice'of half a lemon in a, glass of hot water. It will disperse headache, improve appetite, stimulate the digestive organs, and for bilious temj-ejra-ments it is much to be recommended. Lemon rind sAeeped in water jugs renders the water very refreshing and: beneficial lor bathing purposes, acting as a tonic to the skin.
The! juice qf half a lemon, addeid to a teacupiful of black coffee (no sugar), is an excellent cure for a headache.
Lemon juice is also goo 3 for rheumatism, and is excelleJnt as a spring medicine if tajcen fasting. Lemon juice and salt will remove ordinary iron rust spots ; and where the hands are stakiea, there iis nothing, like lemon juice to clean them.
In the winter, after washing the hands, dry thoroughly, then rub aver the backs witn lemon juice ; you will never have chaps.
Lemon juice and sugar, mixed to a paste-like consistency, is good for sore throats and coughs. Lemons are suitable for all stomach pomplaints, and' a specific against skin complaints.
Lemons to rub the gums with will keep them healthy, while lemon juke will prevent chilblains.
Neuralgic pains may be removed by rub'Mng the affected part with lemon. Used on a corn it will remove it in time, and lemon juice rubbed on the scalp is said to be excellent for dandruff.
Vegetables and Fruit Instead of Medicine
In the course of a lecture delivered before the Illinois Horticultural Society special stress was laid on thtf health-gi ing properties of many f,mits and \egetables. The lestuier said :— We can vouch for many of these vegetable remedies as being quite as efficacious and much more pleasant to take than the prescriptions often given by physicians, and some day we may add others to the list h(jre given : Honey is wholesome, strengthening, pinfymg. lealing, and nourishing. I make reference to the kind made by bees, not the glucose kind. Persons suffering from rheumatism, nervous diseases, and \ous dyspepsia shoul.i eat celery and turnips. Onions are almost the be>t nervine known, and will quickly rfrlice and tone up a worn-out'system, and are beneficial in cases of coughs, colds, influenza, scurvy, and liver <oniplaints Lettuce eaten hv those Who suffer from insomnia is lenoficial. Let those who need iron for a tonic eijt spinach, and lea\e the drug <iron) alone. Persons & urn? ring from gra\el should eat onions and spinach. Cariots should be eaten by those who have asthma. Let there who neeU increased pcrspnation to relieve overworked kidneys and lungs eat asparagus. Lemons satisfy and cod the thirst in fever. Black'bec-ries are a tonic Biac (b(,rry cordial is the proper remedy for diarrhoea Persons who are bilious, who have indigestion ami dyspepsia— conditions for which calomel is usually presented— should let the calomel alone and eat freely of rij c tomatoes. The apple, excelling other fruits in phosphoric acid, is an excellent brain food. It is apeii nt and diuretic, and hence obviates indigestion and dvsrepsia and a-sists kidney secretion and prevents gra\cl. It cleans the mouth. Let persons who use drugs clashed as aperients and laxatives and cathartics, stop their v?€ and eat freely of aoples, figs, bananas, tomatoes, onions, raspberries, and blackberries. Apples. Apples are ooie of the cheapest and at the same time" the most valuable of fruits. The various elements which go to make up the apple are sugar, lime, albumen, water, phosphorus, etc. It is the phosphorus which is so highly prized ; it goes to renew the nervous matter of the body, .and is especially recommended to Irani Vvotf'ers The acids in the apple are good tor those vith slurgish livers, an«d help to counteract the e^ect of too rioh living on those who do not take much pctive exercise. Phosphorus is often prescribed for neuralgia, n<wo- s debility, and similar ailments which is proof of its valie medicinally , therefore all who have any tendrn-y to such nef.e weakness should eat freely of apnles, and they will probably save themselves a doctor's Mil.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 30, 27 July 1905, Page 29
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