Anticatarral, antipirético, antiespasmódico: Hojas, cáscara del fruto

Fruit, leaf, root: belly pain, childbirth, colds, cough, diarrhea, fever, headache, itching, kidney, nerves, parasites, purge, vomiting, weakness

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Root: Decoction for an anthelmintic,and for treating venereal disease. Used for treatment of hemorrhage and for venereal disease in NW Guyana.
Root toxicity: abortive

Leaves are boiled and the water used as a medication for colds, by the Guyana Patamona

Fruit: In Guyana, the juice is taken with salt to treat diarrhea. In Guyana, juice is used to treat "viccis", a fever that leads to a desire to sleep and uncontrollably relaxed digestive muscles. Lime juice is drunk to prevent dysentery, and used for cleansing wounds. In Surinam, juice is mixed with oil and rubbed on the stomach to relieve sagging muscles of the sexual organs. Juice from the fruit is mixed with a pinch of salt and drunk for chest colds and fever, by the Guyana Patamona. Juice from the fruit is mixed with grated garlic and some water and drunk for snakebite, by the Guyana Patamona. Juice from the fruit is used for making a tonic, by the Guyana Patamona.
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Range. India and Southeast Asia. Found throughout Myanmar as a cultivar.

Uses
Bark: Boiled in water to half the starting volume, and taken once in the morning and once in the evening to reduce fever.

Fruit: The sour fruit is used to stimulate the appetite and aid digestion, as well as to control vomiting, coughing, sore throat, asthma, and bloating. Fresh lime juice is consumed to alleviate vomiting and fatigue; it is also squeezed into the nostrils to stop bloody noses and taken to protect against diseases, especially those that affect the stomach. Lime juice taken with added sugar is used as a remedy for coughing due to too much fat, weak bile, and aches and pains in the joints. Lime juice with a small amount of sugar is taken twice daily, in the mornings and evenings, to cure bleeding gums. A paste made from crushing together the fruit, charred from roasting over hot coals with one clove, is applied to the base of the teeth for toothaches. Consumption of great volumes of the juice mixed with small amounts of sugar is considered a cure for opium overdoses, alcohol toxicity, and food poisoning. Lime juice mixed with ash from baked cowry shells (Cypraea tigris) is taken as a remedy for difficulty and pain in passing urine. Hot lime juice mixed with honey is taken twice daily to alleviate sore throats. Drinking lime juice every day is considered a cure for dizziness that occurs upon sitting or standing. As a very strong tea, lime juice is taken as a remedy for headaches. The fruit’s green skin is ingested to relieve chest and stomach pains. The fruit can be sliced in half and applied to the skin as a cure for ringworm, discoloration, hair loss, itching, and rashes. Lime pickle (after slightly dried, fruit preserved in oil and spices such as cumin, coridander, and mustard seed) ingested regularly after meals is considered a cure for inflammation of the spleen.

Seed: Crushed and rubbed onto the temples to treat headaches affecting only one side of the head.
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Origin:
Wild in the warm valleys of the outer Himalayas. Cultivated in the plains.

Action:
Antiscorbutic, stomachic, appetizer, refrigerant. Used in bilious vomiting.
Leaves—an infusion is given for fever in jaundice, for sore throat, thrush.
Root—an infusion is given for colic and dysentery, also as febrifuge.
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Considerable use is made of the lime in Jamaican household medicine. As a beverage, and for colds, tea is made by boiling a few lime leaves in a little water. The leaves are also used in 'bush baths'. Lime juice mixed with salt or with soda water is said to provide a remedy for stomach-ache; mixed with ink or with pounded berries of Solanum aculeatissimum it is applied to ringworm. The latter mixture seems to be effective. According to earlier writers lime was formerly used for a great variety of purposes, the pulp of the roasted fruit providing a dressing for ulcers, and root and bark decoctions being used for weakness and fevers. African native medicine makes much use of the lime. The juice of the fruit is used for skin diseases, sore throat, thrush, as a mouth wash, for dysentery and to apply to wounds: a leaf decoction provides a lotion for fevers and eye diseases.

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Origin:
Nigeria
Part used
whole plant
Medicinal uses
jaundice,abdominal ulcer,scurvy,antimicrobial

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