Lemon can fight dengue virus: Dr. Khurshid

QUETTA: Senior health physician Dr. Khurshid Ahmed has said Lemon could be helpful in fighting dengue virus.

When APP scribe contacted him on Friday, he told that according to medical research, Lemon juice increases number of white cells in body which improve the immunity system.

"Dengue virus attacks white cells of blood and decreases their strength, pushing the patient to death," he said.

Dr. Khurshid was of the opinion that if a person eats an apple every morning and consume few drops of lemon juice at any time on daily basis then his immunity system would become stronger against the viral infection.

"Apple fruit provides iron and calcium to our body which are compulsory to fight viral diseases," he said. A patient suffering from dengue viral infection has to be suffering from fever, full body fever from feet to head, vomit and other complications after his or her white cells are come under attack of dengue virus, he added.

He, however, said there was no need to mix apple juice and lemon juice. "It will be better to eat apple in morning time and consume lemon juice after few hours," he said.

The health expert said that lemon juice also help in breaking kidney or urine bladder stone. "If a person regularly consumes lemon juice, he or she will remain safe from accumulation of calcium oxalate and uric acid stones in kidney or urine bladder," he said.

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