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The use of lemon juice

Sickle cell anemia: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sickle cell anemia (SCA) attacks about 95,000 Americans and every 500,000 African Americans have one. People with this disease.

This is a congenital heart disease. The normal hemoglobin is disc shaped, moving easily through the blood vessels, containing a protein called hemoglobin. This protein is rich in iron that produces red blood and carries oxygen from the lungs throughout the body.

Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin that does not move easily through blood vessels, which are hard and tend to clot together, trapping blood vessels.

Sickle cysts in the blood vessels block the blood from flowing to organs, causing blockage of blood vessels, causing pain, infection and organ damage.

Patients have lower red blood cell counts than normal because sickle cells can not live long enough, while bone marrow can not produce new red blood cells fast enough to replace dead cells. This is a genetic disease, which lasts a lifetime, the disease occurs from the time the new patient is born.

Older treatments such as painkillers, antihydrochlorothiazide to relieve pain, prevent infections, eye damage, stroke, and control of complications. These methods do not completely cure the disease but only relieve the symptoms and treat the complications. Bone marrow transplantation can be cured in a few cases.

Researchers are continuing to look for new therapies for this disease, including gene therapy, bone marrow transplantation, stem cell therapy, in which stem cell therapy has led to considerable success. However, these treatments are very expensive and not very effective.

Recently, a clinical trial with pediatric SCA patients found that lemon juice can reduce pain symptoms (50% with lemon juice, compared with 92.7% when not used).

In addition, it reduced the incidence of fever (46.6% when using lemon juice, compared to 87.3% when not used) and the rate of hospitalization (3.4% when using water lemon juice, compared with 34.5% when not used).

Use for malaria: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 219 million people suffer from mosquito-borne illness, with 660,000 deaths each year. For treatment of this disease, patients are often prescribed drugs have the side effects and toxicity is quite high, affecting not only the digestive system, nervous system, cardiovascular system, liver and kidney function.

But a recent study found that lemon juice can significantly increase the ability to cure illness when combined with conventional medications, and not only reduces the side effects of the drug.

Effects on food poisoning: A recent study found that in foods that cause food poisoning in seafood salads, foods commonly found in coastal areas of the United States are often processed Live fish are completely removed by lemon juice.

Scientists have also discovered that lemon juice can be used to disinfect water by killing norovirus - a group of viruses that causes diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain - as well as Escherichia coli. Lemon juice can also kill cholera germs - the disease is thought to affect 3-5 million people and in 2010 100,000 to 130,000 people died.

Cancer of the pancreas: This is a difficult cancer to cure, but lemon juice research has the potential to reduce the risk of developing this tumor in patients taking part in the trial.

Tobacco cessation support: Every year, cigarettes kill nearly 6 million people worldwide. A comparative clinical trial of nicotine gum and lemon juice extract showed that "this water can be used effectively in support of smoking cessation.