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Lemon Juice ( Succus Limonis.) — The expressed strained juice 
of the ripe fruit. 
Lemon juice -contains citric acid, in the proportion of about 
32 grains to each fluid ounce, with mucilage and extractive. 
To prevent its undergoing decomposition, whicli it is apt to 
do by keeping, a proportion of about 10 per cent, of spirits 
of wine or strong brandy may be added, and the mucilage 
separated by filtration. Another effectual plan is to allow the 
juice to stand for a short time after expression, till the coagula- 
able matter separates, then to filter and put into bottles, with 
a stratum of almond or other sweet oil upon its surface. 
Properties. — Valuable anti-scorbutic and refrigerant; pri- 
marily, anti-alkaline ; secondarily, antacid. 
Therapeutic Uses. — In scurvy, it is one of the best remedies 
we possess, both as a prophylactic and as a curative. In 
febrile and inflammatory affections, the diluted juice, sweetened, 
forms an excellent refrigerant drink. In acute rheumatism and 
rheumatic gout, in some forms of acute tropical dysentery and 
diarrhoea, &c., it has been successfully employed. As an anti- 
dote to some acro-narcotic poisons, it often proves effectual. 
Lemon juice and gun powder used topically for scabies. — Fh. I. 
The bark of the root has been used in the West Indies as 
a febrifuge and the seeds as a vermifuge (Watt.) 
A decoction of the lemon, reported by Dr. Aitken of Rome 
is said to be a very valuable remedy in the treatment of ague 
(B. M. J. Oct. 4, 1884). 
Var. ILL C. acida. The sour Lime of India. 
According to Bonavia (Oranges and Lemons of India, p. 246), 
it is more probable that this has descended from C. Hystrix of 
Kurz than from the C medica of Linnaeus. 
For figures, see Bonavia’s work Plates 238 and 239. 
Syn. : — C. acida, Roxb. 589., 
Vern.: — Lebu ; nebu ; nimbu ; kagugi-nebu (B.);Nimbu; 
khatta-nimbu (Pb.l; Khata limbu (Guz.); Limbu (.Mar.); Limun 
nibu (Dec.) ; elu-micn-cham-pazham ; elemitchum ; elimichum ; 
