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