garlic-Lovers have probably heard the comment: Aha, you ate garlic yesterday? Hardly any other medicinal plant has so many uses, people who love this plant, but also many who strictly reject it.
Occurrence & cultivation of garlic
garlicNative to India and Central Asia, Allium sativum is now grown all over the world. The name "garlic" comes from Old High German and means "split leek".
This plant uses the "toes", ie the individual parts of the tuber. The active ingredients of the remedy are an essential oil that contains alliin.
Crushing or cutting a toe creates allicin and sulfur compounds. These have an antibacterial effect, contain vitamins A and C, as well as amino acids.
Application & use
The "scent" and the aroma alone enrich dishes from kitchens from all over the world more or less intensively, whether for salads, stews, meat dishes or as a spread. If you bother with the pieces of garlic, no matter how finely chopped or crushed in the salad, you can do this by simply rubbing the salad bowl with a cut toe, which also gives the fine aroma of this spice.
In naturopathy, the garlic processed in countless applications. All natural healers and users of natural recipes know about the health-promoting and healing effects.
The most common use of garlic cloves is prevention and help with colds. There are a variety of home remedies with which the antibacterial effect is supposed to help.
A so-called "garlic soup", made quite simply from a chopped clove of garlic, some broth and a few pieces of bread, which are poured over with hot water, brings every ailing person back on their feet. The next day after consumption, you can literally feel - and smell - how the body excretes harmful substances from all pores.
Significance for health, treatment & prevention
garlic is also a natural remedy for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and helps to thin the blood in cardiovascular diseases. In these cases you will not be able to do without a doctor, but as a natural remedy it has no side effects (except perhaps the smell).
In any case, it is worth looking at natural healers or simply looking under the name "garlic" to see how you can help yourself with this plant. The effect will not be felt on the first day, but just preoccupying with it, preparing it and knowing that you are doing something good are the first steps towards recovery or your own healing.
In pharmacies and drugstores you can also find garlic preparations for all ailments, which you can take without expecting the work of the preparation, and the smell is then not as annoying as when preparing fresh garlic.
Another aspect that will be of interest to all those who want to delay the aging process is the use of garlic. There are recipes for preparing garlic with lemons or with alcohol and then taking this approach in doses as a cure for and against various problems.
If you summarize all these possible uses and complaints in which the medicinal properties of garlic work, you will quickly find that this alone has a rejuvenating effect or prevents premature aging. You protect yourself against colds, the immune system, heart and circulation are strengthened, help with intestinal diseases, effects against cancer and tumors, with skin diseases, etc.
If all these factors can be taken into account with the help of garlic, the health-maintaining effect is already proven and thus prevents premature aging.
There are many proverbs about garlic, old and new. For those who use public transport every day, it might be good to know that "the ticket ensures the journey, the garlic the seat".
