In another book I refer to often, “The ABC Herbal” by Steve Horne, the author talked about the A in the ABC – Activators. This is the first step in healing your body of illness. It basically means that you give your body the raw materials it needs to do its own healing. “Activators are aromatic herbs which give the body the energy boost it needs to complete the job.” Garlic is listed as one of the activators. Mr. Horne also talks about garlic being an herbal vaccine of sorts as it builds up your resistance to disease. Here is an excerpt from his book:
… there are herbs which support the body in its efforts to fight infection and help to remove the underlying cause of the disease. Our favorite herb example is garlic … Garlic has been “nature’s penicillin” because it has powerful infection-fighting qualities with no harmful side-effects. (It does have one unpleasant, but harmless side-effect, its smell.)
We have used garlic for respiratory problems, earaches, bacterial infections, sore throats, colds, fevers, abscesses and injuries with excellent results.
Garlic helps stimulate the flow of blood and lymph, promotes perspiration, expels phlegm and otherwise improves the internal environment to make it unfriendly to harmful micro-organisms. In fact, a nurse who worked in a hospital growing bacterial cultures told me how she had proven to herself the powerful effect of garlic. She took a petri dish with a very powerful strain of bacteria and set a peeled clove of garlic in the center of the dish. Within two hours, every bacteria in the dish was dead. She told me it took eight hours for the strongest antibiotic the hospital had to kill that same strain of bacteria when the antibiotic was sprayed over the whole plate. That shows you how penetrating the effects of garlic are.
I just love that story about the nurse killing the bacteria in 75% less time than the hospital antibiotic! Every time I administer some type of garlic remedy to my family, I remember that story.
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I need to live with you for a week and learn all this! Oh, wait! We did that once! ;-D
I knew garlic had health benefits–but I thought all the benefits came from the eating of it! Thanks for broadening my horizons.
I am wondering what you think about grocery store garlic vs. garlic that’s grown more naturally? I’m looking forward to the opening of my farmers’ market so I can buy Music varietal garlic for its taste alone–but I’m wondering what you think about the health benefits of grocery store v local garlic?
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