Saw this on a local news report:

Lemonade Medicine
Men and women who drink lemonade may be getting an added benefit ... protection from kidney stones. Lemonade concentrate is one of the most effective ways to stop stones. That's the finding of a study in the Journal of Urology. When patients drank two liters of water every day with concentrated lemon juice containing citric acid, they had an 87% decrease in kidney stone formation.
[wgntv.trb.com]

The report is talking about concentrated lemon juice, the real, fresh-squeezed stuff should be even beter, and it's not even talking about the Master Cleanse it's talking about drinking the stuff while you're eating SAD!

I've also seen lemon juice used to get mineral deposits off of shower head on the BBC America show "How Clean is Your House?" Just soak the shower head in lemon juice for a few hours. So I guess that the kidney stones are dissolved by the lemon the same way that the mineral deposits on the showerhead are.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2008 03:33AM by Lillianswan.