Garlic! Just hearing the name makes me want some spaghetti and buttery garlic bread! Yum!
But this article is not about the many culinary uses of garlic … it’s about how garlic relates to your health and the health of your children.
Have you ever eaten a fabulous Italian dinner and woke up the next morning to a bedroom that smelled like garlic? That’s because garlic moves through your whole body, killing infection and cleaning things up!
First, I’ll detail the amazing characteristics of garlic and then I’ll let you in on some of the ways we use it in our home. Are you ready? Get out the bread … here comes the garlic!!
Illness Fighting Characteristics of Garlic
When I initially started down the path of natural healing and home remedies, garlic was the first ingredient I learned about. Since then, I have learned about MANY other herbs that heal in so many different ways: the number of herbs at our disposal to heal is mind-boggling! But the one herb I keep falling back on is trusty old garlic.
The healing properties of garlic are almost too numerous to list in their entirety, but I would like to share a little bit to make a good case. I found this description in one of my favorite herbal books, “The How To Herb Book: Let’s Remedy the Situation” by Velma Keith and Monteen Gordon.
Garlic is antibiotic, antiseptic, carminative (causing explusion of gas from the stomach or bowel), digestant (promotes digestion), diuretic (increasing the volume of the urine excreted), tonic (a medicine that invigorates or strengthens), vermifuge (serving to expel worms or other animal parasites from the intestines)
Garlic is called nature’s antibiotic. It contains allicin, a natural antibiotic. 1 milligram of allicin has a potency of 15 standard units of penicillin. It is effective against toxic bacteria, viruses, and fungus. Garlic contains more germanium, an anti-cancer agent, than any other herb. In Russia, garlic was found to retard tumor growth in humans.
- active against staphylococcus (staph infections) and E. coli bacteria
- good to take for all diseases including contagious diseases
- protects against infection
- has detoxifying effect on all the body systems
- improves, tones, and strengthens entire physical condition
- has rejuvenating effect on all cells
- builds endurance and energy
- strengthens body defenses against allergens
- has soft oils that help to emulsify plaque and loosen it from arterial walls
- contains selenium which helps arteriosclerosis
- strengthens blood vessels
- equalizes blood pressure, high or low
- has a sugar regulating factor
- taken internally one of the most effective herbs for killing and expelling parasites
- Garlic contains protein, phosphorus, potassium, vitamins A, B, B2, and C, calcium, sulfur, selenium, germanium, allicin, alliceton I & II, aluminum, chlorine, manganese, zinc, copper, and iron
Whew!! Is there anything garlic does not outright cure or at least help with in some form? I hope I didn’t lose anyone with such a long technical list, but that stuff is so interesting to me.
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