Garlic: useful properties, recipes

During epidemics of influenza, my most important helper and weapon from getting rid of the disease is garlic. "Garlic: useful properties, recipes" is the subject of our article. What are the useful properties of garlic? And from what diseases does garlic help? How can I make medicines from garlic at home? You will learn all this from this article.

Garlic is an association with an unpleasant odor from the mouth, but in addition to this deficiency, garlic has a mass of virtues, and the most important advantage is that garlic has an antibacterial property. And scientists from the University of Alabama have proven that garlic improves heart function, and normalizes blood pressure. For this property is responsible for allicin, and it is this substance that creates such a smell from the mouth, but to get rid of the smell from the mouth, try after eating garlic to chew parsley or a slice of lemon. Garlic helps to cleanse the body of fats and limestone deposits, improves metabolism, destroys cholesterol, which causes the vessels to become sturdy and thereby reduces the risk of heart attack, the formation of various tumors, headaches disappear, eyesight improves. Having destroyed cholesterol, garlic does not support the desired effect all the time, so for this you need to adhere to a certain diet. Garlic contains a substance - ajoen, which reduces the viscosity of the blood, and as a result, the likelihood that thrombi may form, due to which the infarction may also be caused, decreases. Everyday use of garlic is advised for people with stomach or colon cancer. Garlic inhibits the development of cancerous tumors at different stages of its development. For young people who seek to grow muscle mass, garlic can also help, for this you need to eat two cloves of garlic twice per day an hour before training.

But! Since garlic has the ability to dilute blood, it should not be combined with drugs that also dilute blood, such as aspirin, heparin, coumarin, this can cause bleeding. Garlic is contraindicated in food intake during exacerbation of the tongue of the stomach, with stones in the gallbladder, hemorrhoids, etc. If you develop hypersensitivity to garlic, it will cause side effects, such as heartburn, gas in the intestines, bitterness in the mouth, rash. with long-term careless application of garlic, garlic can kill all flora of the intestines, which can cause irritation of the intestine. Garlic is very useful for beriberi.

Scientists have found that garlic has a rejuvenating effect. To do this, you need to prepare a serum of rejuvenation, it strengthens the immune system and is an anti-influenza drug. And so, one head of garlic, together with the peel, grind along with the lemon. We pour all this into a glass jar and pour 600 g of cooled boiled water, and clean it for three days in a dark and cool place. Then after three days we sight and take every morning 50 grams on an empty stomach. Drink for three months, and then you need to take a break for one month.

What are the useful ingredients of garlic? In garlic contain more than four hundred kinds of useful components, and so, it is sodium, potassium, iodine, manganese, iron, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium, vitamins A, B, C, D, E, K, B6, thiamine, insulin, nitrogen compounds , extractives, essential oils, phosphoric, sulfuric and silicic acids.

Garlic is also a diuretic, diaphoretic, analgesic, wound-healing, antihelminthic, disinfectant. Also, garlic is recommended for partial paralysis of the face, constipation, tremor, sclerosis, in the disorder of the nervous system. A person should eat garlic at least six times a week! If you wipe warts every day with garlic, you can get rid of them. In order to cure toothache, you need to cut the garlic into two halves and attach it to the hand with which the tooth hurts in the place where the pulse is palpated, and after 15 minutes the pain disappears. With sore throat you need to gargle with a tincture of garlic, for this we take 1 slice of garlic, finely chopped, poured a glass of warm water, and an hour later can be used. If you have pain in the throat, chop 2 garlic cloves finely, boil in milk, and drink hot. In order not to pick up the flu, you need to cut the clove of garlic on a cotton swab to attach to the nose, before wrapping the tampon with gauze. As a fortifying agent: 300 g of garlic pour alcohol, insist for three weeks and take 20 drops every day for half a cup of sour milk. Garlic can be used even with hair loss! To do this, 250 g of olive oil, 10 heads of crushed garlic, stir all this, and rub into the scalp, rinse after 10 minutes.

Garlic is widely used not only in folk medicine, but also in pharmacology. It is used to obtain various medications. Garlic is also very widely used in cooking as a spice for various salads, first and second dishes. And with canning, garlic is put to canned vegetables to disinfect the jar. In large quantities, garlic is used in many national dishes of Asian and southern European cuisines. Garlic very well combines with lamb, but not with fish, it also fits perfectly with seafood (shrimps, crabs, lobsters, scallops).