Lemon Rx: 12 Evidence-Based Reasons Why It is A Powerful Medicine by Sayer Ji

Lemon Rx: 12 Evidence-Based Reasons Why It is A Powerful Medicine

by  Sayer Ji

Green Med Info,  8 June 2014


You know lemon, right? It is a tart, exciting, delicious and indispensable ingredient in recipes and beverages. But did you know that scientists have identified it is as a powerful medicine as well?

The most powerful healing substances on this planet are masquerading as foods, and this is all the more true for fruits.  We've already written about The Amazing Healing Properties of 13 Common Fruits , including lemons, but it deserves its own article for a number of reasons.

Here are 12 reasons why it deserves respect as a cutting-edge medicine, and not just something found in refreshing beverages or as an indispensable ingredient in a number of culinary recipes.

Lemon's Evidence-Based Healing Properties Revealed:

1. It Can Lower Blood Pressure: Simply smelling this fruit has been found in lower blood pressure.[1]
2. It Can Lesson Constipation: In combination with rosemary and peppermint essential oil, the smell of lemon has been found to relieve constipation in the elderly.[2]
3. It Can Remedy Bad Breath: In combination with tea tree and peppermint essential oil, it can reduce malodour and sulphur compounds in the breath of intensive care patients.[3]
4. It Can Reduce Esophageal Cancer Risk: Lemon, like all citrus fruits, contains physiological significant levels of flavones; Flavone intake has been found to be inversely associated with esophageal cancer risk. [4]
5. Oral Yeast Infection: Lemon juice has therapeutic value in the treatment of oral thrush (oral candida infection) in HIV/AIDS patients. [5]
6. It Can Dissolve Kidney Stones:  Lemonade therapy appears to be a reasonable alternative for patients with hypocitraturic nephrolithiasis (a type of kidney stone).[6] [7]
7. It Can Reduce Inflammation:  Lemon mucilage has significant in vivo and in vitro anti-inflammatory effects.[8]
8. It Can Protect Your Heart: Lemon juice antioxidant and cardioprotective properties. [9]
9. It Can Protect Against Cholera: Lemon juice is a biocide against Vibrio cholerae, the pathogen that can cause cholera.[10]
10.  It Is A Powerful Antioxidant and Prevents LDL Oxidation: Excessive oxidative stress is a contributing factor to accelerating aging, inflammation and a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions. One of the primary reasons why LDL cholesterol can cause heart disease is that it oxidizes LDL cholesterol, resulting in artherogenicity (the ability to damage the inner lining of the arteries). Lemon is a powerful antioxidant and is capable of preventing LDL oxidation.[11]
11. It Can Help Lift Your Mood and Reduce Anxiety: Lemon oil possesses anxiety relieving (anxiolytic), antidepressant-like via modulation of neurotransmitters.[12]
12. It Can Help You Maintain An Ideal Weight: Lemon peel polyphenols suppress diet-induced obesity, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance.[13

In addition, lemon is also one of the most concentrated sources of food vitamin C on the planet. Unlike ascorbic acid – which is the synthetic form of vitamin C, commonly derived from GMO corn – lemon contains all the essential cofactors needed to provide the body the means to utilize it, and maximize its effectiveness in disease prevention and treatment (Pssssst. Please don't tell the FDA, since its not approved to 'prevent, treat, or cure any disease,' and they wouldn't' look kindly on this statement).

For more information on the healing properties of lemon, view our lemon database and share this information far and wide.  Also, view our popular blog on GMTV, 9 Reasons to Drink Lemon Water in the Morning. Also, learn more about the amazing healing properties of vitamin C by reading Research Proving Vitamin C's Therapeutic Value in 200+ Conditions.

Source:

Green Med Info

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Past Mistakes Are Your Guides, Not That Which Defines Your Character

Love, The Great Uniter by M.N. Hopkins

Yes, Love, the great uniter. Not fear induced behaviours, but the actions of those of great faith and love who can see beyond appearances to the Heart of All Matter.

© M.N. Hopkins

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.

For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma.

With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.

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Australian Boy Given Gardasil HPV Vaccine Against His Mother’s Wishes

Boy given Gardasil HPV vaccine against mother’s wishes

Sne Vax, Inc.,  5 June 2014

An article in the Gold Coast Bulletin reports a 15 year old boy has been given the Gardasil HPV vaccine against his mother’s explicit wishes which were made clear on a consent form.[1]

According to the article, Ms Blakemore’s son “came home from school last Tuesday and said he had been given the vaccination after he was told to sign his own consent form”.[2]

 

Ms Blakemore said:

 

“My son doesn’t comprehend that sort of stuff, they don’t actually get the other side of the story so he’s not well informed enough to make those decisions when put on the spot.”

 

According to the article, “Ms Blakemore said 15-year-olds were too young to make decisions about their body”.  She said: “They can’t vote, they can’t drink and legally they can’t  have sex but yet they’re allowed to sign a form for vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease…If they don’t have consent forms from parents they should be sending a note home to say they weren’t vaccinated, not just go ‘here’s a form, we think you’re old enough to make these decisions’”.[3]

 

Ms Blakemore said: “From a parent’s point of view, giving us consent forms then going over our heads is just abominable and terrible.”[4]

 

When her son was vaccinated with the HPV vaccine, Ms Blakemore said: “He questioned the lady doing it as he was only supposed to get one vaccination, and she said ‘Your name’s on the list, so you’re getting the shot’.”  The boy’s mother said when her son came home he was“really upset…He asked if there is an injection that could get rid of it and I said ‘No’”.[5]  (It appears the boy was given another vaccine product at the same time, but this is not identified in the article.) 

 

According to The Australian Immunisation Handbook, for consent to vaccination to be legally valid, the following elements must be present:

1. It must be given by a person with legal capacity, and of sufficient intellectual capacity to understand the implications of being vaccinated.
2. It must be given voluntarily in the absence of undue pressure, coercion or manipulation.
3. It must cover the specific procedure that is to be performed.
4. It can only be given after the potential risks and benefits of the relevant vaccine, risks of not having it and any alternative options have been explained to the individual. 

Source:

Sane Vax, Inc.

HPV Vaccine VAERS Reports up to April 2014

 

 

Description			Total
Disabled			1,129
Deaths			165
Did Not Recover			6,977
Abnormal Pap Smear			570
Cervical Dysplasia			241
Cervical Cancer			78
Life Threatening			627
Emergency Room			11,562
Hospitalized			3,614
Extended Hospital Stay			247
Serious			4,828
Adverse Events			34,700