The healing effect of lemon juice

Having studied, through experiments and observations on patients, the effect of this remedy B. Stanojevič (Casopis lékaruv českÿch, 1928, No. 21) came to the following conclusions: 1) Lemon juice increases the secretion and acidity of the stomach equally at normal levels, decreases and increases in this acidity. 2) The introduction of juice through the probe causes an increased separation of the juice of the duodenum; the same effect have also receptions of juice per os both in people of normal and icteric, and in dogs in experiments on them. 3) Lemon juice exhibits a significant diuretic effect, which is strongest in jaundice, continuing in them even after they stop drinking the juice. 4) The specific gravity of urine after drinking the juice decreases according to the increase in the amount of urine, while the excretion of chlorides decreases, and urea comes in, and the urine gets an alkaline reaction. 5) In catarrhal jaundice, the appointment of lemon juice has a significant therapeutic effect, the yellowness of the urine sharply decreases, the urine clears up, and the feces get a normal color. 6) Patients tolerate this treatment (juice of 4-7 lemons a day, pure or with water) well and do not show any gastrointestinal disturbances.