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10 Household Uses for Lemons

09 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Dr. Tijana S., D.C. -- healthy.BEing family wellness in Chiropractic, DIY, Essential Oils, Family Health, Family Wellness, Recipes, Safe Home, Wellness

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Lemons are one of those household items that serve a multitude of purposes, especially with anything health related, but they go way beyond that. Besides their refreshing smell and zesty flavor, they can be utilized in many different ways beyond their traditional uses.

So here are some suggestions on how to use them in your kitchen and laundry room:

In the Kitchen:

1. Freshen Up the Fridge: Remove the odors from the refrigerator easily by dabbing lemon juice on a cotton ball or sponge and leave it in the fridge for several hours. Also, make sure to check the fridge for anything that may be causing the bad smell and get rid of it.

2. Fruit and Vegetable Wash: To naturally remove the pesticides and dirt that may be on the skin of your fruits and vegetables, slice a lemon and squeeze out one tablespoon of lemon juice into your spray bottle, because lemon serves as a natural disinfectant.

3. Keep Your Produce from Turning Colors: When preparing certain vegetables and fruits, they may start changing colors once they are cut, especially evident with avocados, apples, cauliflower, and other white vegetables. To combat that, sprinkle some fresh lemon juice over your produce once they are cut to preserve their freshness and color. Lemon compliments fruits and vegetables, so you’ll enjoy the extra freshness in your dishes.

4. Refresh Cutting Boards: If you use your cutting boards to chop onions and garlic, and prepare meat and fish, they may pick up a smell. To get rid of the smell and help sanitize the cutting board, cut the lemon in half and rub the cut side all over the board. You can also use undiluted juice straight from the bottle.

5. Keep Insects Out of the Kitchen: Using insecticides and pesticides in your home, especially the kitchen, may not be something you want to do at the possibility of exposure to your family, small children, and even pets. So to address any issue with insects, you can squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds, windowsills, and into any holes or cracks where they may be getting in. You can also place small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor enterence. In addition, you can mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 1/2 gallon (2 liters) of water and wash your floors with it.

6. Deodorize Your Garbage : Toss leftover lemon and orange peels at the base of your trash can under the bag and repeat every couple of weeks to keep it smelling fresh.

7. Clean Tarnished Brass and Polish Chrome: Make a paste of lemon juice and baking soda, coat any tarnished brass, copper, or stainless steel, and leave it on for 5 minutes. Afterwards, gently scrub if necessary, wash the item in warm water, rinse, and polish dry. You will be able to remove mineral deposits even on metal stainless steel sinks. For chrome faucets, refrigerators and other accents, rub lemon rind over the chrome metal, rinse, and dry with soft cloth. You will see the sparkle and shine!

In the Laundry Room:

8. Boost Laundry Detergent: Pour 1 cup of lemon juice into the washer during the wash cycle for natural bleaching action, stain removal, and discoloration removal on T-shirts and underwear. The clothes will be brighter and smelling fresh.
For your delicates, soak them in a mixture of lemon juice and baking sod for a minimum of 30 minutes before washing to remove stains without the use of harsh chlorine bleach.

9. Rid Clothes of Mildew: For mildew stained clothes, make a paste of lemon juice and salt, rub it on an affected area, and leave them in the sunlight to dry. You can repeat the process until the stain is gone.

10. Replace Your Dry Cleaner: To remove the yellow stains in the armpits, combine equal parts lemon juice and water and gently scrub them on the stained area, which will allow you to avoid harsh chemicals and expensive bills at the dry cleaners.

Have you tried any of these?! Share and let us know what you think! Feel free to share other suggestions in the comments below!

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10 Health-Related Uses for Lemons

16 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Dr. Tijana S., D.C. -- healthy.BEing family wellness in Diet, Essential Oils, Family Health, Nutrition, Safe Home, Stress Management, Wellness

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Lemons are a popular fruit in anything health related. It serves as a zesty flavor for food and drinks, refreshing scent in just about any household and personal item imaginable, sore throat remedy, and so much more.

So let’s go beyond traditional uses for lemons and investigate their diverse applications:

1. High Blood Pressure: Lemons are loaded with potassium, which helps regulate elevated blood pressure and manage nausea and dizziness.

2. Mental Health: Lemon can help improve the mood, depression, and stress, as it is refreshing and helps elevate fatigue symptoms, which are common with depressive mood. Also, works with great long-distance athletes.

3. Respiratory Problems: Lemons help decrease the accumulation of phlegm, allowing for clearing of breathing passages. Also, aids in persons who suffer from asthma.

4. Arthritic Complaints: Because lemons are a natural diuretic, they increase the production of urine, which helps in removing the toxins from the body and reducing inflammation, which will result in an increase in pain relief as well as reduction in symptoms.

5. Kidney Stones: If you mix lemon juice with water and drink it regularly, it will decrease the formation of crystals, which are responsible for kidney stone formation.

6. Skin Properties: Lemons aid in the reduction of free radicals in the body as they are considered an antioxidant, which helps reduce signs of aging and skin damage. Applying lemon juice directly to liver spots or freckles for 15 minutes before washing it off will safely lighten and leave the skin clean. Lemon juice also works great directly on zits and is an effective natural cleanser and exfoliation.

7. Oral Health: Diluted lemon water is a powerful antiseptic that is safe and non-irritating. It can be used in dental hygiene as a mouth wash for bleeding gums, toothaches, and killing bacteria that causes bad breath. Be cautious to only rinse for a few minutes because long-term exposure to the acid in lemons can damage tooth enamel.

8. Antibacterial Properties: Lemon water can used to fight a variety of infections, such as gargling in case of a throat infection as it reduces phlegm; yeast and vaginal infections as they alter the pH in the body that citric acid can help restore; and on the skin to stop bleeding and disinfect minor cuts and scrapes.

9. Fever: Water with lemon, and even Lemon Essential Oil, can serve as a cooling agent during fever and chills, as well as during hot weather. It also soothes itching and alleviates rashes; in case of hives, read more HERE!

10. Digestive Problems: Lemon juice in warm water is a great way to soothe an achy digestive tract from indigestion, constipation, and problems with elimination, by removing toxins from the body through blood and kidneys and aiding in the digestive process.

It is important to examine the source of your lemon. If you are going to use the external part of the lemon, like putting it in your water, using the rind or the peel, try to buy an organic lemon to avoid harmful pesticides.

Have additional questions? Contact below in comments, at drtijana.dc@gmail.com, Website, Facebook, or Twitter!

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If you do not already have a local chiropractor, call Dr. Tijana at 706.254.4579 to schedule your first appointment for YOU & YOUR FAMILY for a comprehensive health assessment TODAY!

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