Every morning, I drink two large glasses of slightly warmed water with the juice of a whole lemon added.
I started thinking about all the lemon skins and seeds that I’m throwing out. And I started to save them in a bag in the freezer. Yesterday, I boiled up the skins and seeds of the week’s lemons in several cups of water on the stove. I strained the resulting yellow lemon juice into a jug and put a jar of it in the fridge.
Clearly, this isn’t cold-pressed lemon skin juice, so I’m no longer sure of its effectiveness, for anything. Yet, I have a lot of faith in the healing properties of lemons. So I mixed it in a 2:1 ratio with vegetable glycerin in a dropper bottle and took a teaspoon of that mixture in a small shot glass of warm water first thing this morning – twenty minutes before my regular 2 glasses of lemon water. I’m hoping it will deal with the constant catarrh that I have these days. I’ll let you know!
Best of health, naturally,
Nina
If you have an electric juicer, you could sent the whole lemon through the juicer and get the nutrients in the white part and skin. The white part (excuse my lack of technical terms) is also high in flavonoids.
My favorite thing to do with lemon skin is to deodorize the garbage disposal (amazing how fast that thing gets gross, even when you compost most all your produce leftovers!).
Hi Emily:
Good advice. I’m now taking 1/2 teaspoon of the liquid every morning and my naturopath says it’s helping me deal with grief from past lives. Okay! It feels right. I’m going to boil up some dish cloths with some more lemon skins and seeds next week. I’m hoping it will whiten them and of course deodorize them too.
Nina
What about all the chemicals on the peel?
Hi Sydney: Best to use organic lemons and then – ta da! – no chemicals. Thanks for the comment, Nina