Lime Essential Oil From Line Zest

As a person who like lime fruits and lime juices, there is one thing about the lime fruit people usually miss. It is the lime oil from the lime zest.

Unless you are someone who is green friendly, you never will know this or you only get an adulteration of the real thing in some cosmetic stores; or it is only a chemical component of the lime oil in any cream, shampoo, oil, nail polish, and so on.

We all think because fruits and vegetables are water soluble, and since these do not contain fats and oils as in most other foods, these are just plain starch and sugars, consisting mostly of vitamins and photonutrient compounds.

However, what is not realized is that parts of fruits and vegetables also contain oils, called essential oils from the green skin or zest. Even the seeds contain oil. Many have not noted this well.

This oils are called essential oils. These are used in many creams, lotions, paints and in some cases, add to foods and drugs.

They do not provide energy but excellent for promoting health benefit. A little or a microscope drop is all that is need to dilute with any other vegetable oil for food. For example, half a teaspoon of lime essential oil is enough to dilute with 50oz of olive oil for dressing your meal. I do not mean you should use all the 50oz at a go. No, 1 tablespoonful of the dilution is enough to dress your plate of salad.

On the other hand, if you take half of the teaspoon of the original line essential oil in the salad, you will react adversely in purging of your intestines. This is a serious minus in misusing the oil. 

Lime oil should always be use in a dilute form. This is the positive side of the oil.

With the exception of vitamin C and C₁ which you can get in eating the fresh lime fruit juice and its white pitch, you get all the other health promoting benefit from the essential lime oils.

Pure substance

I chanced to take part in a chemistry class some years ago. This was in my grammar or secondary school days.

The teacher well noted for his proficiency in teaching chemistry got me and the others on analyzing a pure substance. He said any substance that has a definite composition like water, because it contains only oxygen and hydrogen atoms is to be regard as a pure substance. Any other addition is an impurity and has to be removed. This is what is done to get pure iron from its ore or iron ore.

The defining point is that it should have a definite composition to pass the essence of a pure substance. This definite composition can only contain two, three or more element. It can even be a single entity like oxygen.

So if an element has an extra part it is not pure as seen in the iron ore, which consists of iron and dust particles (earth).

To get the real deal, pure lime oil will come from the lime fruit zest citrus aurantifolia, especially the ones from organic farms and gardens. The lime fruit from inorganic farms is polluted with chemicals, pesticides and insecticides; and a not very suitable for the lime essential oil production.

This citrus aurantifolia is the genus species from which all pure lime oil is made otherwise known as lime essential oil.

It is the green rind of the fruit that provides the oil.

So what are the benefits of the lime oil?

All the health and medicinal benefits you get in eating the lime fruit whole, you get also in the oil, except vitamin C and its subgroup of C_1.

If you have been following my talks on lime fruits and its juices so far, I am sure you will not miss the health promoting goodness of the lime oil. I think you only need a summary here.

The oil is antiseptic, astringent, disinfectant, restorative and antiviral. It is also aperitif and bactericidal.

There are two methods to get the oil: cold compression and steam distillation.

Each method has its value but the former delivers better dividends. You get all the essence of the lime fruits, via the lime oil from compressing the green rinds.

Another rather homemade method is infusion of the green lime fruit rinds in a pure vegetable oil like virgin olive oil or pure peanut oil.

Put 20cl of the vegetable oil in a saucepan and heat this for 10 to 15 minutes over moderate or low heat, that is at a temperature that the oil will not burnt your finger tip.

Remove and put the fresh green rinds into the warm oil in the sauce pan. Cover and allow to stand for over 3 hours. You can leave it overnight and filter the oil off into a clean container with an air tight seal.

If however, you get the commercial product, these are available in the market, do dilute these with other oils like olive oil, lavender oil, or sage oil, or cocoa nut oil. 

Undiluted pure lime oil is a very strong astringent, and can be a health risk to all persons including children. So you have to blend it in a dilute form. 

One major characteristic of the pure lime oil is that it is photosensitive. Their usually reacts to ultraviolet rays, light and radiation energy from the sun and other sources.

A safe practice is to use it in the night time on skin or if you are not going nowhere in the day time. You remain indoors all the time.

I always use a tiny drop of the lime essential oil in dilute form to rob on my hairs and scalp two times in the week. I also take a tiny drop in some of my meals for its promoting digestion and containing respiratory issues.

To your good health!

Lime Oil

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The Goodness Of Lime Fruits Part2

Let’s continue our talks on lime fruits and conclude same here.

One of the best things about the lime fruits and its juice is its many excellent medicinal properties and its use in the prevention and curative values of ill-health.

It is on record that what modern medicine in its advance stage could not do, lime fruits can and this is good news indeed.

Among all fruits, lime fruits come to mind as the best medicinal fruit. We saw in part 1 of this discourse how the English navy used it to keep scurvy at bay in their many seafaring voyage or military conquest. They kept this as a secret for years and dominated the high seas.

Now, all these is shared and no longer a secret, but only to the ignorant minds.

It is on this basis that lime fruit is distributed to workers in many unfriendly work place where scurvy is likely to break out, like coal mines, cement factories, heat furnaces and painting shops.

Other health benefit information on the fruit and its juice include the following and much more.

Care of the skin: The juice and its oils care wonderfully for the skin. This can be the consumption of the entire fruit or externally applied. Due to its many antibiotic, antiseptic and disinfectant properties, lime fruit juice or limeade and its oils (lime oil) cures rashes, dandruff, enzymes, acnes and pimples. That is why they are the main ingredients in many cosmetics, skin and hair care lotions and oils.

Easing Constipation: The acids in lime fruit juices scrub and wash off any dirty in both the excretory and digestive systems. This in turn benefits the immune system. In this way, it helps to ease constipation.

When I was a boy, I used a pitch or two of common salt to mix two or three pieces of the lime fruits that I squeezed into a cup of warm water. This prevents the juice from being too sour. This solution or mixture is a good purgative remedy. When it is taken with a cup of cucumber fruit, it strongly evacuated dirty in the intestines and has no negative side effect.

This is one of the best homemade purgative herbal remedies without resorting to herbal teas over the counter.

Prevents Diabetes Lime fruits can be use to prevent diabetes mellitus. The Glycemic Index (GI) of the fruits is 0 or 1. And prevents the tendency of the blood glucose (sugar level) to rise high.. This is related to preventing high blood pressure and heart diseases. This is because of the high soluble fibre in the fruits.

Prevents Fever Many agreed that lime fruits can prevent fever and it is also an antidote for its treatment. My experience here is should I develop a feverish condition, (I rarely get sick these days due to my taking good care of my body with natures greens) I will squeezed at least two fresh lime fruits into a cup of warm black tea. I take this three times morning, noon and evening to cleanse my digestive system. Then I will eat my supper.

Cholera Cholera can strike any time without notice. Talks about it being confirm only to some third world countries is useless. It is a very serious disease where water is concern. So if by mistake a water system, whether domestic, public or industrial get polluted, cholera can strike, right?

So here is the chance to put a few drops of fresh lime juice in your drinking water no matter how safe it is. The few drops of the juice you squeezed into the drinking water refreshed the water much more with a nice flavor.

In this way, one can prevent many other ailments like gum disease of the mouth and gout because of its vitamin C powerhouse.

We know all fruits and vegetables has vitamin C. For example, guava has 85% vitamin C; while lime has 35%. But due to the citric acid content of the lime fruits, its vitamin C is more powerful than any other fruits and vegetables. It provides a strong source of antioxidants and detoxifiers (vitamin C plus flavonoids). This helps to destroy free radicals in the blood stream.

Piles I cannot remember the last time I bleed when I went to eased myself in the toilet. But I do know for sure that I bleed. Piles are also known as hemorrhoids. It happen in the anal part of the body when you when to stool or piss. Limes prevent its formation without any side effects.

Lime, further prevent and cures any sores as a result of the hemorrhoids. In this way, cancers of the colon and anus can be get rid off.

As a person who is taking limes regularly in my drinking waters, I have not see the disease occur again, not even in my household or family. That is why I can recommend it to be used freely in http://myevergreengoodhealth.blogspot.com salads, cooktail, wines, teas, and all meals just by sprinkling a few drops of its juices on the food one is about to eat. You can add it to all any other fruits and get a maximum benefit in its vitamin C plus citric acid content.

Kidney Stone Precipitation Lime fruits have a very high potassium quality. In the urinary bladder and kidneys, chemicals from drugs and refined food carbohydrates get a place for deposing. These toxin items were usual removed by the addition of fresh lime fruits or its juices during meal time. The lime juices were so effective in dissolving the kidney stones and other toxins. Furthermore, it cures infections in the urinary system and stops the growth of prostrate cancer in men according to research findings.

Weight Loss Program As well noted, limes have excellent citric acid contents. This qualified the lime fruits as a weight reducing agents in burning the fats in the body in the form of adipose tissues.

Cut and squeezed two or three fresh lime fruits into a glass of warm water and drink this in the morning. It will help in reducing your weight.

In addition, at noon time you can make a snack of the juice with a cucumber fruit. Remember both lime fruits and cucumber fruits have a very low Glycemic Index (GI) 1.

Therefore, you gain a zero weight but loss some weight in a day. In a week time, you will see amazing result. So, if you are very fat person and you want to lose some weight, snack a cucumber fruit with limes, even for breakfast, lunch or supper daily.

To your good health!

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