Using garlic

Garlic syrup for coughs and bronchitis

• The syrup of garlic is all natural and for best results always have to take care of the quantities and proportions of the recipe.

• Boil a pint of water in a metal pot, when boiling two ounces finely chop garlic and add water, turn off the fire and remove the container.

• Leave the mixture covered with a cloth and wait for it to rest 12 hours. Later add tablespoons of honey to get the consistency of a not very thick syrup.

• This formula is effective if you take one tablespoon three times daily from onset of symptoms and continued for three days.

• This syrup is not recommended for people who are obese or who have diabetes.

Garlic for indigestion

• Chew a clove of garlic along with three or four fresh mint leaves, thereby increasing the secretion of stomach juices and aids digestion of heavy meals.

• We do not recommend this remedy when the discomfort is caused by spicy food.

Garlic for high cholesterol:

• We recommend that during the day eat at least four cloves of raw garlic.
• Good in salads or just chewing the important thing is not to decrease the dose.
• To combat the bad breath will recommend chewing parsley after eating garlic.

Garlic for intestinal parasites:

• For the effect of garlic is the best thing to eat every morning a raw clove fasting and immediately after a small cup of warm milk sweetened with brown sugar or brown sugar.

Garlic for foot fungus (athlete’s foot):

• Cut a clove of garlic in half and rubbed over the affected area. By doing this you can use latex or plastic gloves to prevent the fungus from spreading.
• The garlic should be pressed vigorously to release some juice.
• Continue treatment until one week after symptoms have disappeared.

Garlic to lower blood pressure:

• You will need 2 large garlic cloves and 1 liter of pure cane alcohol.
• Peel the garlic cloves and then pour into a glass bottle with alcohol, let stand for 15 days.
• In half a glass of water diluted 5 drops of the maceration. Drink it daily to stay healthy.

Garlic disinfectant:

• To avoid getting infected wounds and bruises. We must take every precaution and will initially wash the wound with soap and water, then squeezed a bit of garlic juice on the wound, which is a bit annoying, but rarely painful.
• In the same way you can separate the thin skin covering the cloves of garlic and apply a patch point on the wound to prevent further infections.

If garlic burns:

• This remedy applies only if this is a slight burn that does not require medical intervention.
• In this case, crush a clove of garlic in half a teaspoon of olive oil and apply the resulting paste on the wound. Wash every twelve hours and then spread this remedy until the burn heals.
• This mixture is effective in helping skin to heal if it is full of beans with a white tip.

Garlic corns:

• To remove calluses.
• Mash garlic and lemon drops, the mixture is placed in poultices on the treatment area, gradually softening the corn will go and disappear with daily hygiene.

Garlic mosquito repellent:

• Cut a garlic clove in half and rub against the arms and legs, also on the face, without reaching the eyes as it is irritating.
• If the closed somewhere, also can split some heads in half and place them around the bed for the insects to stay away.

Garlic for the circulation and kidneys:

• To the discomfort of circulation and kidney pain
• Prepare chicken broth in the usual way, but for the person concerned is separated a portion and it is left boiling for five minutes more adding to one third of head of garlic, which should be peeled only, teeth remain integers.

Garlic for varicose veins:

• Take a glass of water with twenty drops of tincture of garlic. This is daily, preferably without interrupting the treatment for at least three months, then rest two weeks and restarted.
• This same remedy is helpful in relieving anxiety and palpitations strange.

Garlic is comprised of various components with different properties including lowering blood cholesterol levels, inhibits platelet aggregation, increased fibrinolytic activity, inhibit atherogenesis and lowering blood pressure, so it can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Some research also indicates the role of garlic as antioxidant and anticancer effects.

In Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research created a capsule containing garlic extract which is equivalent to 7 grams of fresh garlic per capsule. Dose used was one capsule twice daily for five months. In the first month of blood cholesterol increases. This is the possibility of annihilation of fatty deposits in blood vessels. HDL cholesterol increased after 2 months of delivery. Cholesterol levels decreased significantly after 8 weeks, but only triglyceride reduction occurred after 5 months of garlic.

Other studies have shown that administration of garlic essential oil is equivalent to 1 gram of fresh garlic / kg / day given in conjunction with high-cholesterol diet, will lower blood cholesterol, serum triglycerides. VLDL, LDL and increase HDL.