CREOLE LEMON (citrus limonum)

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	CREOLE LEMON
	*citrus limonum*

Name
CREOLE LEMON

Scientific Name
citrus limonum

CREOLE LEMON

Citrus aurantifolia (Christm.) Mexican Swing var.

Other common names

Creole lemon, bitter, Shaft Lemon

Botanical family

Rutaceae

Description

Little tree with short and acute thorns in the branches. Alternating, relatively small leaves in comparison with other citruses (5-7 cm in length) and with winged pecíolos, closely aromatic. Flowers in groups of 2-7 in the armpit of the leaves, very aromatic, white. Small fruits with one papila occasionally apical, fine and smooth crust; juice of endocarpio acid.

Origin

Probably archipelago Hindu-Malayan, of where it was taken, to India to extend by all the old world. Introduced in America from the first trips of Columbus.

Location

It grows of spontaneous form in scrubs near coasts and lands of the interior of little and medium elevation. Cultivated by the population mainly in countryside.

Useful part

Rind of the fruit and the leaves.

Form of harvesting

To come off the crust mature fruits; to use fresh or dry; in order to dry, to hang in fresh place in the shade. In the case of leaves, to take developed well them, healthy and clean, preferredly in hours in the morning.

Recognized medicinal properties

Systems: Farmacológica action:

Cardio-circulatory Protector of the small glasses

Antispasmodic Digestive

Diurético Genito-Toilet

Skin and Antifúngico Mucous

Antibacteriano

Via of administration

Oral, topical

Other attributed properties

(not even approved)

The juice of the fruits or the infusion of leaves or crust of the fruits, by oral route, for constipated colds and in general. The lemon juice, in topical application to cure wounds, herpes and other affections of the skin. The seeds boiled in milk of cow like vermicida.

Warnings

The essential oil, or parts of the plant that contain it, can cause dermatitis. Not to expose to the sun the parts dealt with products of this plant. Topically not to use by more than 3 weeks.

Other uses

Fruit juice for refrescantes drinks, to decorate foods and mixed with equal amount of glycerin to smooth the skin. Dissolved in water to rinse the hair and to maintain them brillosos and desgrasados. Useful essential Ac. in pharmaceutical industries, perfumería and to obtain citric acid.

Components

Rind of the fruit: Essential oil with d-limoneno, felandreno, citronelal and other substances in smaller proportions. Juice: Citric, málico, acetic and fórmico acid, glucósido hesperidina, pectina and the several vitamins, fundamentally C.

Culture

For the lemon tree "FROST-EUREKA" to use like Citrus pattern macrophylla. To transplant the positions to bags when they have about 10 cm. of height. To graft when to the height of 40 cm. the stems reach 5 mm or more of diameter (normal graft of escudete). To transplant to the land after 3-4 months of made the graft. To use distances of 4x6, 4x8, 6x8 or 9x5 meters.

Preparation and Dosage

DECOCCIÓN: To boil by 5 minutes 5-12 g of fresh leaves or crust of fruits. To ingest 300-500 mililiter to the day distributed in 2-3 dose. The same decocción is applied to affected parts 2-3 times to the day locally.

Bibliographical references

Manfred, L. Seven thousand botanical prescriptions on the basis of 1300 medicinal plants. Buenos Aires: Ed. Kier, 1947, 778p.

CIBA-GEIGY. The Citruses. Basel, 1975. 88p.

CEMAT, Lemon. Guatemala: Mesoamericano center of studies on appropriate technology. Lists of credits on medicinal plants, Series 3, no. 9, 1ra. Ed. January 1979.

Hlava, B., F. Pospisil and F. Stary. Natural for Plants beauty care. The Prague: Ed. Artia, 1981. 236p.

Frometa, And, And Torres and R.Jimenez.Algunas fitotécnicas recommendations on the lemon tree "FROST-EUREKA". Havana: Est. Nac. of Citrícola Improvement. 1982, 43p.

Duraffourd, C., L. D. Hervicourt and J. C. Lapraz. Notebooks of clinical fitoterapia. Barcelona: Ed. Masson, 1986. 86p.

Reynolds, J. And F. (Publisher). Martindale: Extra The Pharmacopoeia. London: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1989, 1896p.

Robineau, L. Towards a Caribbean farmacopea. Sto. Domingo: enda-caribe/UNAH, 1991, 475p.

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