Miraculous Health Benefits Of Garlic
Garlic is a member of the onion family and has been called the “wonder drug”. It is the world’s second oldest medicine.
Raw garlic works best as a powerful antibiotic that fights bacteria, parasites, and viruses. Garlic is good for fighting heart disease, two or three cloves a day can lessen the chance of heart attacks and stroke.
Garlic also contains many anti-cancer compounds and disease fighting antioxidants. It is great for colds as a decongestant and expectorant. The miraculous benefits of garlic also include boosting your immune system and lowering cholesterol.
Garlic can also lower your blood pressure, relieve gas, help diarrhea, and work as an antidepressant. Inflammation causes pain in the body, so if you are in pain try garlic, it is a great anti-inflammatory. Include it in your daily foods cooked or raw to see the benefits.
I suggest using a few cloves of raw garlic in all your salads. This is a great way to get more of this miraculous health benefits of garlic.
If you suffer from cold sores, you can cut a clove of garlic in half and rub it on the cold sore to speed up the healing process.
With summer comes the annoyance of mosquitoes. If you become a feast for the bugs whenever you are outdoors,then rub garlic all over your exposed parts. Garlic to mosquitoes is like kryponite to superman!
You can also rub garlic on the affected area of athletes foot then rinse with cold water in a half an hour to relieve athletes foot. If you have a sensation of warmth that intensifies try diluting the garlic with water for the next application.
Garlic helps stimulate the secretion of digestive enzymes and can help with indigestion. If Poison Ivy has you down then try boiling 4 cloves of garlic in a cup of water and after the the mixture cools apply it to the affected areas.
This is the season where so many are plagued with sinus trouble, here is a natural option to combat your sinus problems. Crush on clove of garlic into 1/4 cup of water. Sip up the garlic water into an eye dropper(make sure no garlic pieces get into the dropper)then use 10 drops of the water per nostril for 3 days.
For a toothache, get one peeled garlic clove and put it directly on your aching tooth for a minimum of one hour. I have a friend and her mother in law used garlic with olive oil to heal all her children’s ear infections growing up.
As you can see there are many miraculous benefits that garlic provides. God has provided through nature a variety of plant life that brings miraculous healing benefits to our bodies.
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To Your Health,
Jenay Green
Sources:
Bottom Line’s secret food cures” Joan and Lydia Wilen’
Nutrition Almanac Fourth Addition “Gayla and John Kirschmann”
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