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