| Benefits of garlic are numerous. Garlic, like the onion, | | | | garlic was demonstrated in a controlled trial on |
| has a powerful effect on healing wounds and is also | | | | sufferers from long-standing intestinal disorders such |
| very good as a disinfectant. The old Greeks placed | | | | as persistent diarrhea with accompanying headaches. |
| garlic on stones at cross roads as a dinner for their | | | | These symptoms disappeared in the patients having |
| triple goddess Hecate who was Diana on earth, | | | | garlic juice, but even more importantly, an entirely |
| Phoebe in heaven and Proserpine in hell.As with | | | | fresh and improved quality was found in the intestinal |
| horseradish, it is difficult to juice garlic in the machine | | | | flora, those bacteria which aid the digestion of |
| because of the strong essential oils which can only be | | | | food.Garlic juice has been used beneficially for many |
| removed with the greatest difficulty. So we crush it | | | | conditions including those mentioned already plus |
| and the resulting liquid is easily incorporated into juices | | | | tuberculosis, entercolitis and amoebic dysentery. It is |
| or taken in small amounts by itself.In 1936 Caspari | | | | an expectorant as well as assisting asthma and |
| demonstrated in the laboratory that garlic can | | | | bronchitis.Garlic and garlic juice has been used as a |
| destroy the bacterium staphylococcus and that this | | | | medicine for some 5,000 years and we would be |
| might be the basis for the use of garlic as a medicine. | | | | misguided not to use it on account of the smell. If |
| Later on studies with animals demonstrated the | | | | you cannot bear to use it with your juices than take |
| effect of garlic in improving the condition of | | | | garlic in the form of capsules which do not dissolve |
| arteriosclerosis whilst at the same time bringing down | | | | until they have reached the intestineGarlic is by far |
| the blood-pressure.Garlic acts well against cataract, | | | | the best common food source of germanium. |
| particularly in smokers, and for colds. Like onion juice, | | | | Containing around 750 parts per million. It also seems |
| one dessertspoonful of garlic in half a pint of warm | | | | to be better at concentrating selenium than most |
| water (10ml in 275ml water) is a recognized remedy | | | | other fruits and vegetables, supplying 20 micrograms |
| for worms in children. One suspects that children in | | | | per100g. The exact quantity of these elements will |
| Mediterranean countries must be well protected | | | | depend on where your garlic was grown as some |
| against worms, and statistics show that their parents | | | | soils have richer supplies than others. Both germanium |
| have a lower incidence of heart disease than most | | | | and selenium are considered to be important |
| Europeans, all of which helps to confirm the | | | | antioxidants. |
| therapeutic value of this bulb.The great benefit from | | | | |