Lemon protects you from so many diseases that can rightfully be called a super-food. It is full of nutrients, containing bioflavonoid, pectin, folic acid, vitamin C, A, B1, B6, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese. It has beneficial effects in the liver, intestine, stomach, the immune system, the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
If you regularly eat lemons, you can prevent diseases such as laryngitis, bronchitis, flu, colds, arthritis, high blood pressure, bacterial infections, kidney stones and gallstones, and according to the latest research cancer!
There are many ways to incorporate this food into your daily menu, but did you know that lemon helps as a poultice to treat painful joints. Yes that’s right, here is a recipe which done correctly, can relieve you of the pain in your legs and arms.
Here it goes:
-You need to put the peel of two lemons in a jar and then add 500 ml of olive oil.
-Close the jar and leave it to stay for two weeks. After 2 weeks your healing oil is ready.
-Pour the healing oil on a clean gauze and place it on the painful joint, and put a plastic bag over it.
-Do this in the evening and spend the night with it. In the morning you should feel a great relief.
