Although we are in the Spring months, colds are still fairly prevalent, and there have been a good many cases of influenza. It is at this time of the year that lemons and oranges are particularly essential to bodily well-being. In all citrus fruits there is an abundance of those wonderfully potent substances called vitamins, including one which helps the body cells to resist the attacks of disease germs. Then, too, there are certain acids, of which citric acid is the most important. These are most valuable in the vital activities of the body cells and in the removal of the waste products in the nutritive processes. The acids in citrus fruits form a compound in the body, which increases the alkalinity of the blood, and the diminution of this alkalinity results in many types of ill-health.

Lemons also contain matters of direct food value, carbon compounds, and various necessary salts: phosphates, potash, iron, lime, dosium, sulphur, etc. A very important point is that all these salts, vitamins, etc., are present in lemons in a form which is easily made use of in the body.

Crude chemical salts may be taken into the stomach, but be merely wasted, not being in a form which can be absorbed by the body cells, but this is not the case when our essential chemicals are taken in a natural form. Moreover, they are so cunningly dispensed by Nature that the taking of them is a pleasure. Let us, therefore, seek our spring tonic from Nature's dispensary —the citrus tree.