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Tina's wellness programme; You should know!
Topic Started: Mar 26 2010, 08:10 PM (4,664 Views)
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It was a toss up whether to add this to this or the Simple Sari Prevents Cholera thread.


Lime, lemon nature’s cure for cholera, food-borne diseases

Written by Sade Oguntola Thursday, 23 September 2010

If you worried about contracting cholera from food items like meat, fruits and vegetables on sale in the market, nature’s solution worth trying out are lemon and lime, which experts have confirmed good arsenal against the germ that causes cholera.

Lemon and lime are popular citrus fruits used as food ingredients for flavouring and in fact in parts of the world such as Japan, it is common dietary habit to add lime juice to raw or grilled fish.

Epidemiological studies have shown that food plays an important role in the transmission of Vibrio cholerae, (the germ that causes cholera) and different foods have been incriminated in many epidemic outbreaks of cholera.

But fallouts from community and laboratory studies in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, indicated in the 2001 edition of Tropical Medicine & International Health that adding lime juice to food protects from cholera.

During an epidemic caused by cholera in Guinea-Bissau in 1996, a case control study was conducted in the capital Bissau, the main affected region with an attack rate of 7.4 per cent. Cases were hospitalised patients and controls were matched for area, gender and age. Lime juice in the sauce eaten with rice gave a strong protective effect and tomato sauce was also protective.

Laboratory experiments to explain the inhibitory effect of different concentrations of lime juice on survival of cholera germ in meals showed that the germ thrives in rice with peanut sauce, but lime juice inhibited its growth.

According to the researchers, “since lime juice is a common ingredient of sauces, its use should be further encouraged to prevent food borne transmission in the household during cholera outbreaks.”

In addition, a trial of lime juice in extinction of cholera in contaminated vegetables such as cabbage and lettuce showed that the lethal effect of lime juice on the germ that can easily be in millions on cabbage and lettuce.

Researchers, documenting this in the 1994 edition of the journal of Revista de Biologia Tropical, stated that the lethal effect of lime juice on cholera germ was evident within five minutes of exposure to lime juice.

In fact, they found out that more than 99.9 per cent of the initial germs on these vegetables were effectively destroyed, adding that “the time interval needed for the killing was smaller than the usual waiting time for serving food in homes and restaurants.”

Given this finding, they strongly recommended the addition of lime juice to non-acidic foods, beverages and water to prevent infection with cholera and other acid-sensitive microorganisms, especially in rural and slum populations in the tropics and subtropics.

Nonetheless, the effectiveness of lime and lemon juices in disinfecting foods of germs that could lead to cholera and other food-borne germs can be attributed to its antibacterial effect.

Researchers testing out the antibacterial activity of citrus juices against cholera germ stated in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology stated that citrus fruit juices were effective in preventing infection with all variants of cholera germs.

They reported that citric acid, the major organic acid in these juices, actual was responsible for the effectiveness of these juices in preventing the growth of the eight different varieties of cholera germs.
At present one of the cholera germ varieties is the most important food-borne disease–causing germ in Taiwan, Japan and other coastal regions. The high incidence of food-borne diseases caused by this germ results from frequent consumption of marine foods in these regions.

Although most food-borne diseases are usually sterilised by heat treatment before eating, marine foods are often consumed raw and this is the reason why the incidence of food poisoning from cholera germ is so high in such environments.

“If we can sterilise V. parahaemolytics not by heat treatment but by the addition of some acidic ingredients before eating, it would be one of the safest and most convenient ways to avoid infection with V. parahaemolytics,” they wrote in the publication.

Vinegar is also a food ingredient for adding acidity. According to the researchers, vinegar also works against many food-borne diseases, inclusive of cholera.

In addition, researchers in an assessment of extracts of 16 edible plant species for antibacterial properties against 10 disease-causing germs in fish, stated that the use of garlic, Citrus microcarpa(chinese orange) and lime and swingle have great potential to replace commercial antibiotics that are available in the market to combat systemic bacterial disease infection in cultured fishes.

Citrus fruits are among the most accepted and well preferred fruits in the world not only due to their flavour, but also for its taste and benefits in general health.

They have been valued for a very long time because of their nutrition and as part of a tasty diet. Citrus and its products are a very good source of vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre that are needed for growth, development and overall nutritional well-being. It is also found that the other biologically active, non-nutrient compounds (phytochemicals) found in citrus fruits help to reduce the threat of many persistently occurring diseases.

In a study conducted to know the benefits of lemon on disorders such as cancers of the breast, skin, lung, mouth, stomach and colon in animal studies and laboratory tests with human cells, lemon was found to have certain chemical compounds known as limonoids that is highly potent in preventing the spread of cancer owing to their increased availability in our body for a prolonged duration after being absorbed.

Lemon has a class of organic substance called polyphenols that are present in high amounts in the lemon peel. These dietary lemon polyphenols were fed to obese experimental animals to study the effects of polyphenol on obesity. It was found from the study that polyphenol significantly suppressed different aspects of obesity such as weight gain, fat accumulation, development of high blood cholesterol level, high blood glucose levels, and insulin resistance.

Citrus peel contains a range of essential oils. These essential oils are found to inhibit the growth of or kill bacteria which are pathogenic in nature. It is well recorded since ages in traditional Chinese medicine that the peels of the dried citrus peels are useful as remedies to ease coughs and reduce phlegm.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/natural-health/11448-lime-lemon-natures-cure-for-cholera-food-borne-diseases
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"These two are physically separated within the cell. When you crush it these two come into contact and immediately the combination of the two produce allicin, and the other thiosulphonates."

Like horseradish! Want to open the sinus, eat a bite of horseradish (not creamed, but grated) right out of the jar.


About Tine's cure. I think the whole thing is fantastic, gonna check out her other suggestions.

Lemon peel has certain oils that will kill things. Beets clean you out (fiber), provide folic acid are good for the blood and are not that bad to eat (try non-pickled). Never ate the tops before. Everyone knows about garlic. And ginger is great for over-all circulation, helps with digestion and has it's own anti-like properties. However, it is a very 'woody' root!

Great articles here giving me some ideas and stuff to pass on.
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epona, it's obvious that you've been doing some comprehensive studying up on herbs yourself! Nice job and input, thanks.

About a year and a half ago a young relative was suffering from kidney stones and would just cry when an attack came on it was so painful. I worried and got to looking for cures... natural cures. I found what I was looking for, meanwhile, my young relative was in and out of the hospital before I could relay the information.

I found the same basic cure at many sites, the how-to configured a little differently, but basically it was lemon and olive oil. I saw several pictures of kidney stones that had been flushed out (and caught in a straining device) and were they about gross looking! It was very interesting and informative. I guess I never finished doing my regular 'shopping', that is, comparing enough sites and formulas and make a decision on one course that I would think might be the best. They all involved the same ingredients but they varied some. I'd thought of that when I saw the lemon and olive oil in this wellness programme.
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Another facet is that lemon or lime juice and water works on viruses/bugs because it changes the ph of the body if you do just it alone for a couple days or so. Once you kick in with sugar and stuff, you negate the good affects.

Even though I know a lot of stuff I am not healthy. I suspect I have ongoing mold exposure from work and the last rent house I lived in.

Just discovered a really neat site. www dot earthclinic dot com Check it out. I think the guy that heads it up is a biochemist who tries to keep people alive in his area of Thailand.

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I found this on a page about pH.

Note: Lemon and Lime Citrus fruits, although acidic, are Alkaline Reactive, they do not contribute to the acidity in the stomach, and are very important when loosing weight, as your body has stored fat for many years, which includes DDT Poisons that you consumed years back when you gained the fat cells, people have died from the DDT released from fat cells as they lost weight, but eating citrus helps the body get rid of the DDT safely. On the other hand, Oranges (or Orange Juice) is both Acidic and Acidic Reactive.

http://www.archure.net/salus/ph.html
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