Lemon is a gift from nature that is undeniably wonderful. It is a little yellow fruit full of vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and citric acid. It is one fruit that is available all around the world in all seasons and is not only used for culinary purpose but also for cleaning purposes.

When I was in school, I used to study all the time. As a result, my body movement was very poor and stomach issues followed. My parents would give me medicines of all kinds but nothing seemed to work, I would make faces while taking those medicines to help my stomach. I have always hated medicines, I personally think they can make you more sick - medicines do help but they do some degree of damage as well, its like they fix one problem but they onset a new one without you knowing it. For something as basic as stomach issues, I surely did not need to consume those hard salts used in medicines. This is when my deep bond of friendship with lemon started.

I would drink one glass of lemonade every morning and would study with ease whole day. For 5 years, I drank Lemon with salt in water every morning. It helped my stomach and it also helped me maintain a certain body weight. I used to even take lemon, salt and a knife on my travels and would drink lemonade first thing in the morning no matter what. On travels, some people specially my age used to consider me weird, but I have always been ok with weird. :D

Now my body movement level has improved to an extent that I do not need to drink lemonade everyday but whenever some stomach issues arrives, lemonade works for me.

India and its scorching heat is one reason for varied skin colors of Indians. Skin color is ok since it is our identification but tanning and sunburns are not good. People in India have varied degree of sensitivity towards sunlight depending on which state they live in.

Here in northern India, it stays so hot for 4 months - that you can get a sunburn standing 30 minutes when out of home. If not sunburn, tanning is unavoidable. I am a person who easily gets tanned and can cook up in 5 minutes of sunlight. After the cruel summers, comes rains and autumn, with changing seasons it becomes to important to get rid of the tan.

I am a kid of mother nature who do not like heavy creams and fancy products sitting on skin. That's where mother nature gives me lemon to fix my skin. I apply lemon once in two days directly on my skin and it removes tan. Simple as that.

Although applying lemon directly on skin can cause irritation for some people, in that case it is advised to mix a equal amount of rose water to dilute the acidic effect of citric acid present in lemon. When I started applying lemon on my skin 5 years back, it used to cause irritation and I used to mix rose water in it. But now, I apply lemon directly on my face preventing eye area as citric acid would obviously irritate your eyes since it is a acid. I also happy it on my hands and feet since they are exposed all time and get badly tanned.