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Scientific Name: Citrus limonum
A.K.A.: Citrus Medica, Citronnier, Neemoo, Limoun, Limone, Limonero, Miski.
Medicinal Properties
Tonic to digestive system, immune system, and skin. Used in Ayurvedic medicine to tonify liver.
Strengthening to blood vessels. Helpful in relieving symptoms and discomfort of varicose veins, phlebitis,
and peripheral circulatory system function. Increases circulation to extremities. Used to treat and prevent
vitamin deficiencies, colds, flu, and scurvy.
Magickal Properties
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Mixed the juice of a lemon with water and the resultant mixture is used to wash amulets, jewelry and other
magickal objects that have been obtained secondhand. This wash ensures that all negative vibrations are
cleansed from the object in question. The juice is also added to bath water at the time of the full Moon
for its purificatory powers.
Dry the peel and add it to love sachets and mixtures, and the leaves can be used in lust teas. A lemon
tree grown from a seed which was taken from a lemon that you have consumed is a highly appropriate gift
to a loved one, although admittedly this is a long process. A lemon may serve as a poppet and if you
obtain a green (unripe) lemon from a tree, no larger than 1 ½ inches in diameter, prick it with colored pins
(anything but black) until it is bristling and attach a piece of yarn or ribbon to hang up in the home. This
will bring blessings and luck and are great gifts.
Did You Know? (Background)
Likely native to the Indian subcontinent, in pre-history the plant was spread through cultivation into the
Orient. Use was recorded in Greece by 300 BC. By 20 BC cultivators were noted in Italy. Evidence of
the use of lemon has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.
The plant ancestor may be malum medicum, as described by Pliny. It was the first citrus fruit known in the
Mediterranean region. It was specifically describe in a 10th-century Arabic treatise on farming.
Ascribed medicinal virtues were documented in North Africa by the 12th century. Seeds were brought to
the Caribbean and Florida by the Spanish before 1500 AD. It was cultivated in California beginning in
1750. By 1870, to supply growing demand in the United States and avoid their importation from Sicily,
Floridians revived commercial cultivation of the lemon.
One thousand lemons may yield to 2 pounds of lemon (peel) oil. A single region in Italy exported 155,000
kilos of oil in the year 1919.
A.K.A.: Citrus Medica, Citronnier, Neemoo, Limoun, Limone, Limonero, Miski.
Medicinal Properties
Tonic to digestive system, immune system, and skin. Used in Ayurvedic medicine to tonify liver.
Strengthening to blood vessels. Helpful in relieving symptoms and discomfort of varicose veins, phlebitis,
and peripheral circulatory system function. Increases circulation to extremities. Used to treat and prevent
vitamin deficiencies, colds, flu, and scurvy.
Magickal Properties
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Used for Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Mixed the juice of a lemon with water and the resultant mixture is used to wash amulets, jewelry and other
magickal objects that have been obtained secondhand. This wash ensures that all negative vibrations are
cleansed from the object in question. The juice is also added to bath water at the time of the full Moon
for its purificatory powers.
Dry the peel and add it to love sachets and mixtures, and the leaves can be used in lust teas. A lemon
tree grown from a seed which was taken from a lemon that you have consumed is a highly appropriate gift
to a loved one, although admittedly this is a long process. A lemon may serve as a poppet and if you
obtain a green (unripe) lemon from a tree, no larger than 1 ½ inches in diameter, prick it with colored pins
(anything but black) until it is bristling and attach a piece of yarn or ribbon to hang up in the home. This
will bring blessings and luck and are great gifts.
Did You Know? (Background)
Likely native to the Indian subcontinent, in pre-history the plant was spread through cultivation into the
Orient. Use was recorded in Greece by 300 BC. By 20 BC cultivators were noted in Italy. Evidence of
the use of lemon has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.
The plant ancestor may be malum medicum, as described by Pliny. It was the first citrus fruit known in the
Mediterranean region. It was specifically describe in a 10th-century Arabic treatise on farming.
Ascribed medicinal virtues were documented in North Africa by the 12th century. Seeds were brought to
the Caribbean and Florida by the Spanish before 1500 AD. It was cultivated in California beginning in
1750. By 1870, to supply growing demand in the United States and avoid their importation from Sicily,
Floridians revived commercial cultivation of the lemon.
One thousand lemons may yield to 2 pounds of lemon (peel) oil. A single region in Italy exported 155,000
kilos of oil in the year 1919.
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