Garlic: The Organic Herbal Wonder Drug
Reader's Digest Editors - January 13, 2021
Garlic has been used throughout history to ward off the Plague and to protect soldiers from gangrene. Today this herbal “Wonder Drug" is used for a myriad of health problems all over Asia and Africa. Buy and consume fresh garlic in moderation. Homeopathic medicines should be used carefully along with healthy diet to maximize their healing potential.
Always peel garlic first. Otherwise, some of the healing and disease-preventing compounds might not form. Whenever you (adult) feel coming down with cold, or flu, simply peel 4 or 5 raw garlic cloves, cut them up in small pieces, spoon them into your mouth, swallow and wash it down like pill with warm tea before going to bed at night. For teenagers 2 to 3 cloves and for children 1 to 2, depending on the size of the garlic cloves. Many people do that once a week regardless, to keep in good health.
After cutting, or crushing your garlic for cooking, leave it there on the cutting board for 10 minutes to allow the health-promoting compounds to form. Cooking garlic will not leave bad breath behind. Eating, chewing raw garlic will cause garlic breath. Chewing on fresh parsley, mint, lemon, or orange peels will help with garlic breath. And use few drop of lemon juice to wash the odor off your hands.
Garlic is one of the oldest and popular spices in the world that also contain very good nutritional value. Garlic has a wide spectrum of properties such as, but not limited to: antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal and antiprotozoan but it also has beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems.
Garlic contains unique oil which is very easily digested and is stable to oxidative stress and for this reason garlic is extremely useful and healthy for consumption. Claim has been made about garlic reducing cholesterol. Cholesterol is not bad for you, cholesterol is produced by your liver to repair and heal your organs and body.
Several epidemiological and experimental studies suggest that garlic oil has been thought to bring about its anticarcinogenic effect and other pharmacological properties through a number of mechanisms, such as the scavenging of radicals, increasing glutathione levels, increasing the activities of enzymes such as glutathione S transferase, catalase, incubation of cytochrome p450 2E1, DNA repair mechanisms, prevention of chromosomal damage etc. Future research should standardize the dosage of garlic and type.
Several hypotheses suggest that the anticancer mechanism may be due to DNA repair mechanism, prevention of antiproliferative effect and alteration of the cell cycle. Garlic and garlic oil should be considered as one of the most valuable food for good quality of life in general.
Garlic is hundred (100) times more effective than all antibiotics in fighting the Campylobacter bacterium, according to a study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
In many countries garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years. Garlic have a long list of health benefits, both raw and cooked. Garlic has been known as an effective powerful antibiotic; antivirus, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal and antiprotozoan, with no side effects. Garlic should be considered as one of the most valuable food for good quality of healthy life.
Garlic is widely used for protecting human blood and heart, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart attack, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Garlic is also used for the prevention of lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer, and colon cancer.
Throughout history in the Iranian nations, East Asia, and Nepal, garlic has been used to treat bronchitis, hypertension (high blood pressure), TB (tuberculosis), liver disorders, dysentery, flatulence, colic, intestinal worms, rheumatism, diabetes, and fevers.
According to experts at Kew Gardens, England’s royal botanical center of excellence, the people of ancient Persian people valued the therapeutic properties of garlic and also thought it to be an aphrodisiac. The upper classes avoided garlic because they despised its strong odor, while priests, widows, adolescents, and those who had taken up a vow, or were fasting, would not eat garlic because of its sexual stimulant quality.
Vaccine detox would take a while, those who took the vaccine should eat lots of herbs and spices, fresh green vegetables and fruits, fatty chicken, fish, beef, lamb and pork, get plenty of sunlight at least 45 minutes per day without sunscreen while exercising, simply walking faster than usual or riding your bicycle under the sun. In addition to enjoying naturally sulfur-containing foods like garlic, cruciferous vegetables: (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, bok choy, arugula, Brussels sprouts, collards, watercress, radishes and more...), eggs, seafood and brewing fresh ginger with green tea, serve with desired fresh lime or lemon juice, to help with your vaccine detox.
Stop using toxic chemicals found in air fresheners, sanitizers, deodorizers and generally any and all chemical sprays, cleaners. cosmetics and makeups. Stay clear processed foods, artificial (fake) meets, vitamins and foods. Stop consuming coffee, all forms of alcohol, sodas, tobacco, and all things artificial.