"I go with what nature verifies."

Limes and lemons are so much alike that we speak of them as having the same value. Most citrus fruits (limes, lemons, grapefruit and oranges) aid oxidation and elimination by the stored-up airy energy in their air-tight compartments. Vitamin C and calcium are their main contributions as food values. The lime and the lemon are particularly valuable for these factors, plus the new vitamin P which is found in them.

The airy element in this citrus fruit is so active that its uses and benefits are limitless when used with understanding. Limes and lemons play an important part in aiding digestion of protein foods, especially when used in combination with fresh papaya. Citrus fruit also changes the over-acid condition of the body to an alkaline one by its heavy fruit calcium contents, which supply the bones, teeth, blood and nervous system with calcium and phosphorous.

Because of this, these citrus juices are a great aid to nervous persons, and are used in neurasthenia with fine results. Citrus juices relieve and prevent nervous indigestion and halitosis (bad breath) due to upset digestion. Actors and business and professional people find the lime and lemon a great help to keep their breath sweet by drinking the juice of either, sweetened with honey and diluted with water, before or between meals and before retiring. This is also good for sore throats and colds, especially if pineapple juice is added to it. Lemon or lime juice is a great remedy for asthma, by using two tablespoonfuls before each meal and before retiring -- in addition to a starch-free and milk-free diet.

Lemon juice also has an antiseptic value and a healing and dissolving effect on abnormal tissues. When mixed with almond or olive oil, it is a wonderful remedy for eczema, applied externally and used internally as well. In bad cases of eczema, use a starchless, all fruit diet, including the lemon and oil internally and apply the lemon and fresh pineapple juice externally every hour until cured.

Athlete's foot yields quickly to the application of lemon juice, especially when combined with fresh papaya juice. The dissolving effect of lemon juice has been shown also in cataracts, by putting several drops of a solution made up of equal parts of lemon juice and distilled water in the affected eye or eyes three times daily.

For pyorrhea, a combination of lemon juice and table salt rubbed into the gums several times daily has given excellent results after other remedies had failed. This also cleanses and whitens discoloured teeth. Felons (a pus-filled infection near the nail or the end of a toe or finger) are dissolved by inserting the inflamed finger or toe into a half of a lemon over night and cleaning it up in the morning.

Erysipelas, considered a highly infectious skin disease, yields nicely to lemon juice compresses, and is healed in this simple way after all the drugs have failed to give relief.

Coughs and colds are helped by lemon juice, especially when mixed with honey, some garlic and fresh pineapple juice. If the fresh pineapple juice is not available, the canned will do. The mixture is even effective without the pineapple juice, but the addition of the pineapple juice yields quicker results. This is a wonderful remedy even in diphtheria and other throat conditions. For diphtheria the lemons can also be roasted until they crack open, then extract the juice and mix it with the above ingredients to dissolve the stringy mucous in the throat so that it can be expectorated by the patient. It would also be helpful for the patient to gargle some of this mixture every hour or so, until relieved. In biliousness, influenza, jaundice, and the after effects of over-indulgence, (hangover, whether from too much food or drink) there is nothing like lemon juice and a fruit diet to clear it up.

Alcoholism and the tobacco habit can be overcome easily, by sucking a lemon whenever the desire to indulge is active. This is not only a perfect substitute but is also a builder and replacer of the lost phosphates, calcium, and vitamins needed to balance the system. Abstinence from meat, fish, eggs, and heavily spiced foods, as well as maintaining a rational nourishing diet, must accompany the cure. Any determined patient can be cured by this method in a month or more.

For wrinkles and lines under the eyes there is nothing better than a mixture of lemon juice and olive or almond oil, gently massaged from under the outer corner of the eye, inward, toward the nose; also, from the same outer corner of the eye in an upward diagonal direction. This same mixture is also excellent for the scalp and for treating any scalp infection.

To keep joints and feet pliant, especially for dancers and artists, there is nothing better than to rub them with equal parts of oil and lemon juice.

For rheumatism and arthritis, take the juice of half a lemon before each meal and before retiring and adhere to a strictly vegetarian, non-starch diet for this condition.

In chills, fever, headaches, use the fresh lemon with clover or alfalfa tea freely and abstain from food until these symptoms disappear.

For dropsy and cirrhosis of the liver, peel the lemon, cut it up, cover it with honey and eat it. Start with one lemon a day and go as high as ten a day by adding one each day, until improved then work backwards down to one a day. One should remain on a fruit and juice diet while on this procedure.

For fatigue and thirst quenching, the lemon and alfalfa tea is good. Or suck a lemon when exhausted or thirsty. It is far better than the vinegar and water drink used for that purpose in hot climates.

Diarrhea -- whether the patient is young or old -- can be overcome by the use of apple pulp mixed with lemon juice and a little honey and powdered cinnamon sprinkled on the mixture.

For piles, go on a fruit and vegetable diet, taking no water. One-half cupful of warm olive or suitable vegetable oil, mixed with one-half cupful of strained lemon juice, should be injected into the rectum at night and retained over night or as long as possible. The patient can wear a pad and protect the mattress with a rubber or plastic sheet.

To reduce swelling, whether it is of the throat or enlarged breasts, use lemon juice compresses. For the compresses, one may dilute the lemon juice with equal parts of cold water.

In cosmetics and beauty treatment, the lemon is of great value, whether it be for a hair rinse, for reducing enlarged pores or for whitening and softening the skin. It is of great help in removing objectionable odors from the hands such as after peeling onions or garlic, and is also a stain remover, for such as fruit stains. For the hands, simply take the rind of the lemon after the juice has been squeezed out and rub the fingers and hands with the remaining pulp.

Lemon and oil sniffed up through the nose is a great cleanser of the nasal passages. This will also clear up adenoids.

For constipation take a mixture of half a cupful of lemon juice with half a cupful of olive, almond, or sesame oil four times a day, until the bowels move.

For poultices on boils, abscesses and skin eruptions, apply the pulp of the lemon, and take the juice with the oil internally also.

As a gargle for sore throat, use lemon and oil, and take it internally also.

For vaginal hygiene and leucorrhea, lemon juice in water, in varying amounts, will be most helpful to relaxed or irritated tissue.

The skin of the lemon is a flavour delicacy. Grated or chopped fine, it can be added to salads, baked goods, and puddings. Even marmalade is made from the citrus fruits. Some seagoing veterans have even used marmalade made from lemon or orange to counteract seasickness.

Moth repellent -- Use ripe lemons into which cloves have been stuck to make them look like brown balls of cloves. Put them around in clothes closets and in the pockets of the clothes. They will dry and leave a fine fragrance as well as prevent the moths from getting near them.

Please note: Wherever almond oil is not available, olive oil or sesame seed oil will do nicely when it is to be taken by mouth; otherwise, even cottonseed oil or other vegetable oils may be substituted for external use and for the rectal injection. Only in cases of severe enteritis and colitis is the healing effect of the almond oil preferred, along with the lemon, as a treatment.