Cleansing the body with lemons

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Cleansing the body helps to improve well-being, lose weight, and improve the condition of the skin and hair. Of course, detoxification is best done with natural remedies. Lemon juice is considered one of the most effective.

The benefits of lemon

In the old days, lemon juice was used to treat scurvy. Nowadays, it is advised to use it for overwork, colds, for the prevention of a number of diseases, and is also widely used in cooking.

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Useful substances are found not only in the pulp of the fruit, but also in the peel. Rutin contained in lemon peel, in combination with vitamin C, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, so it is useful at least sometimes to eat lemons with the peel.

Although it tastes very sour, lemon is one of the most alkaline foods and neutralizes excess acid in the body.

Lemons have antimicrobial and antiseptic properties, help with atherosclerosis, viral infections, kidney stones, inflammation of the genitourinary system, etc. As an external remedy, they are used to lighten the skin, get rid of freckles, and also as an antifungal agent.

The essential oil obtained from the fruit of lemon has antimicrobial properties, helps with headaches, raises the general tone, and improves mood.

How does lemon juice work?

Many health problems naturopaths associate with acidification of the body. Lemon juice, possessing strong alkalizing properties, dissolves crystallized uric acid, which is one of the causes of rheumatism, gout, and urolithiasis. In addition, it helps dissolve bile and remove it from the body. Vitamin C, contained in lemon juice, increases the absorption of calcium, preventing it from settling on the walls of blood vessels.

Excess vitamin C is easily excreted from the body, while providing a cleansing and anti-inflammatory effect on the kidneys and bladder.

Cleansing course with lemons

Lemons have been used for health purposes for a long time. The German nutritionist Johann Schroth (1800-1856) is considered the developer of the lemon cleansing course. The program involves using the juice of a large number of lemons over several weeks.

At the same time, it is not necessary to change the diet, however, during treatment, it is advisable to abandon foods that acidify the body. These are, first of all, meat and eggs, then dairy products, legumes, grains. It is also not recommended to consume tea and coffee. If you are not ready to give up all these foods, just limit their use and include in the diet fresh fruits, raw and heat-treated vegetables (boiled, stewed, baked, but not fried). Regular tea can be replaced with herbal tea.

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Bottled lemon juice and citric acid are not suitable for medicinal purposes. Squeezed lemon juice quickly oxidizes, so it makes no sense to cook it for future use. To make the lemon squeeze out better, you can pre-soak it in hot water for 1-2 minutes.

Lemon juice should be consumed neat, with no added water or sweeteners. It is best to do this 30 minutes before meals, but you can do it an hour after. If necessary, you can divide the daily dose into several doses.

In order not to harm the enamel of the teeth, it is recommended to drink juice from a straw. After that, you can rinse your mouth first with water, and then with a solution of soda (1 tsp per glass of water).

The duration of the course depends on the state of your body now. With minor problems, the result is more pronounced and comes faster.

Our compatriot, professor Neumyvakin I. P.offers the following cleansing schemes with lemons:

Option 1 - long

Reception day	Number of lemons
1st	1
2nd	2
3rd	4
4th	6
5th	8
6th	10
7th	12
8th	14
9th	16
10th	18
11th	18
12th	18
13th	16
14th	14
15th	12
16th	10
17th	8
18th	6
19th	4
20th	2
21st	1

Total for 3 weeks - 200 lemons

Option 2 - abbreviated

Reception day	Number of lemons
1st	5
2nd	10
3rd	15
4th	20
5th	25
6th	25
7th	25
8th	25
9th	20
10th	15
11th	10
12th	6

Total for 12 days - 201 lemons

The essence of the schemes is that you start consuming lemon juice, increasing the number of lemons every day. Then, having reached the highest indicator, you begin to decrease it.

The essence of the schemes is that you start consuming lemon juice, increasing the number of lemons every day.

The number of lemons at their peak should be at least 18-25 pcs. If there is no improvement, you can increase it or keep the maximum indicator longer, say, not 3-4 days, but a week.

For most people, consuming this amount of lemons will not be difficult, for others it can be difficult to accomplish. If lemon juice causes a burning sensation in the stomach, you can suspend treatment for a while or reduce the amount of lemons. Before starting the course, it is recommended to consult a doctor.

If the disease is chronic, then the improvement after the first course may be replaced by the reappearance of unpleasant symptoms. In this case, you should repeat the course according to the abbreviated scheme below.

Abbreviated consumption pattern for lemons

Reception day	Number of lemons
1st	1
2nd	2
3rd	3
4th	4
5th	5
6th	4
7th	3
8th	2
9th	1

For difficult cases

The famous German naturopath Arnold Eret gives such a recipe in one of his books.

“Recipe for a diluent for stubborn mucus and uric acid. Take the juice and pulp of four lemons. Rub the peel of one lemon and mix with the juice and pulp. Sweeten the mixture with honey or fruit puree to taste. This will make it less sour and bitter."

According to Eret, such a drink works even when other cleansers do not have a tangible effect.

How to pick good lemons

For a cleansing course, you should take lemons with a thin peel. They should be firm to the touch, but not too stiff. Lemons that are too hard have little juice. Overly soft can be infected with mold that is not yet visible, or be rotten inside. If the area of the peel near the stalk is transparent, then the lemon is spoiled.

Flabby, aged lemons contain fewer nutrients than fresh ones. The same goes for oversized lemons.

If you see mold on the lemon, then it is unusable. It is also better not to take the fruits lying close to it, they can become moldy already in your home.