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