Amazing Limes
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Malaria: Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic
disease, which the WHO estimates causes 219 million of illness resulting in
660,000 deaths each year. A wide range of highly toxic drugs are used to treat
the disease, but a recent study found that lime juice greatly increased
malarial clearance when combined with standard drug therapy.[1]
They concluded: "lime juice when used with the appropriate antimalarial
may enhance malaria parasite clearance especially in those with uncomplicated
malaria."
Bacterial Agents In
Food: A recent study
found that the popular food known as ceviche, naturally containing pathogenic
agents from fish, could be completely sanitized with lime juice. Both Vibrio
parahaemolyticus and Salmonella enterica (two common causes of food poisoning)
were all reduced to below detection limits through the addition of lime
extract.[2]
Disinfecting water: Lime has been found to enhance the
disinfection of water, by both killing norovirus as well as Escherichia coli.[3]
Lime has also been found to kill the cholera pathogen, which is believed to
affect 3–5 million people and causes 100,000–130,000 deaths a year as of 2010.[4]
Killing pancreatic
cancer: Pancreatic cancer is
a notoriously difficult to treat type of cancer. Lime juice was found to induce
programmed cell death in pancreatic cancer cells.[5]
Stopping Smoking: Likely the most preventable cause of
death on this planet, a clinical trial comparing nicotine gum
to lime juice extract found "Fresh lime can be used
effectively as a smoking cessation aid."[6
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