Garlic - is a truly unique medicinal vegetable. In folk medicine, garlic has various applications. Especially it useful to improve digestion. Garlic stimulates the appetite, increases digestive juices, promotes better assimilation of food, and reduces the amount of gases in the intestines. It possesses a strong analgesic and sedative effect on the intestine. Eating garlic enhances dieresis and stimulates activity of sweat glands. It has anathematic action and disinfects the intestinal tract, so it’s used in the treatment of dysentery and diarrhea. Juice of garlic is useful for curing sclerosis, cancer, and poisonings. Garlic expands blood vessels, lowers blood pressure, supports the function of heart muscle and brain cells. The use of garlic juice helps to reduce blood sugar. Garlic is recommended for beriberi (especially effective against scurvy), with sclerotic form of hypertension (2-3 cloves daily), with infectious diseases of the stomach and intestines, stomach and intestinal colic (2-3 cloves daily). It is enough to chew a clove of garlic a few minutes to completely clean the mouth of bacteria. It is True, that many people very concerned about rather unpleasant smell. You can take a capsule filled with juice of garlic and swallow them by 2 or 3 pieces in the morning at an empty stomach and before bedtime. Swallowing capsules filled with a garlic juice, produces no smell at all. In the treatment of anemia should take 4 to 5 capsules 2 times a day, as indicated above. Garlic is widely used in curing skin diseases and certain infectious diseases.
Garlic increases the body's resistance to colds and other infectious diseases, stimulates appetite, improves digestion and heart function, increases the amplitude of heart rate, dilates blood vessels, has a diuretic, a slight sudorific, antiscorbutic, antiseptic and analgesic properties. Allicin, obtained by distillation from the bulbs of garlic, has a strong bactericidal action and inhibited the growth of bacteria even at a dilution of 1:125 000. There is reliable evidence that the peoples, whose eat a lot of garlic, cancer occurs much less frequently. Found that phytoncides garlic inhibit the activity of certain enzymes of tumors, resulting in reduced prizhivlyaemost tumors after exposure to the extract of garlic. Based on these data have suggested the use of phytoncids garlic in the diet in cancer. The use of garlic preparations also helps in chronic amoebic dysentery, enteritis, with atony intestinal, various forms of colitis, dyspepsia, gastritis with low acidity, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, chronic lead poisoning. Receiving drugs garlic inside is contraindicated in case of kidney disease and epilepsy.
Garlic - a broad spectrum antibiotic. It kills very large number of various bacteria. Studies have shown that raw garlic by its properties is not inferior, but sometimes even greater than the well-known drug tetracycline. Remember that the funds based on garlic, we can not take a long time in large quantities, as the garlic begins to suppress the intestinal microflora and causes irritation.
Garlic provides a wide variety of dosage forms.
Classical garlic tincture. Take: 40 g of mashed garlic, 100 grams of alcohol or vodka, a little mint to smell. Mashed garlic, place in a glass jar, fill it with alcohol or vodka, tightly close the lid and leave for at least 10 days in a dark place. Taste and smell of this tincture will be nicer if you add to it a little mint. Take tincture is recommended for 10 drops 2-3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating.
Few useful recipes against dysbacteriosis.
1) Get: 4-5 cloves of garlic, 1 glass of wine or vinegar. Garlic, clear, finely chop and pour wine or vinegar. Insist at least 3 hours. Take 1 tsp. 3 times daily before meals.
2) Get: 1 clove garlic, vegetable oil. Garlic, clear, finely chop, pour chilled vegetable oil and leave for 6-8 hours. Take 2 times a day for 20 minutes before meals.
3) Take: 2-3 garlic cloves, gelatin or honey. Garlic clean, cut into thin slices and pat dry. Then, dry the slices of garlic grind into a powder and mix with gelatin, making the capsule, or with honey, honey blinded pill. Take 1 pill or capsule before meals 3 times a day.
Drops of freshly squeezed juice
This little recipe is applicable for infants
Carrots fresh, clean tinder in a plastic grater, then squeeze out its juice through a cheesecloth. At a ratio of 1 to one (half), stir in vegetable oil (sunflower or olive), and then peeled garlic, three at the same trowel that carrot through cheesecloth and squeeze a few drops of all the shaking. For the baby enough 2 drops of garlic, for adults drops 5-7.
Bury the nose with colds, influenza, acute respiratory disease. Also applicable as prevention.