Uses :— -Citron rind is hot, dry, and tonic ; the pulp cold and dry ; the seeds, leaves and flowers hot and dry ; the juice refrigerant and astringent. According to Theophrastus, the fruit is an expellent of poisons. It also corrects fœtid breath (Drury.) The distilled water of the fruit is used as a sedative (Year-Book of Pharmacy, 1874, p. 623).
The rind is made into a marmalade and is an antiscorbutic. It is made into a preserve and is used for dysentery (WATT.)
Var. II. C. Limonum. The Lemon,
VerN. : — Jámbira ; bará nimbú; pahári nimbu ; pahari-Kaghzi (H. and Dec); Karna nebu ; gora nebu ; bara nebu (B.); kimti ; gulgul ; khutta (Pb.); Metá limbu ; mótu-limbu ; Motu nimbu (Guz.) ; Thorla-limbu (Mar.); Periya-elumichcham-pazham (Tam.); Pedda-nimma-pandu (Tel.); Doddá-nimbehanun (Kan.)
Habitat : — Cultivated in India.
Leaflet ovate, petiole margined or winged, fruit middle-sized, ovoid, yellow, nobbed or mamillate, rind thin, pulp abundant, very acid.
Officinal Parts : — -1. The outer part of the rind of the ripe fruit (Limonis Cortex) ; 2 The essential oil of the rind (Limonis Oleum) ; and 3. The expressed juice of the ripe fruit (Limonis Succus.)
Properties of the Bind. — Stomachic and carminative.
Therapeutic Uses. — Similar to those of Cortex Aurantii (ante); it is, however, principally employed as a flavouring agent.
Oil of Lemon (Oleum Limonis). Obtained either by distillation or by simple expression of the finely grated rind.
It is carminative in closes of from two to four drops, but is rarely employed in this character. It forms an ingredient in Spiritus Ammoniæ Aromaticus, and in Linimentum Potassii Iodidi cum Sapone. It has been used as a local application in some forms of ophthalmia, but with doubtful results. Lemon oil mixed with glycerine is applied to the eruption of acne (WATT.)
