Allium sativum

Common Name: Garlic clove

Comment: Metabolic regulator.
Tincture: 1:1 @ 20%.
Article: Garlic [Allium Sativum L.]
My early memories of garlic are not kind ones. I associated garlic with families that had smelly houses in distant neighborhoods. I grew up an ignorant WASP who assumed his own allopathic-directed life was far superior to that of others. Rather like a Christopher Columbus complex. But I'm over that now--please pass the pesto!
Garlic is one of the most beneficial of our medicinal herbs. It is very health promoting. So effective is garlic that if the herb was just discovered tomorrow then the government would move immediately to have it banned, citing
such febble excuses as "we can't have people self-medicating" or "a constituent ingredient within [garlic] potentially causes cancer in rats" or "it is illegal to make health claims for a food."
It is the existence of herbs like garlic that makes me wonder why we have any pharmaceutical drugs at all! I am hard-pressed to come up with a single drug in the treatment of chronic disease that is more effective than a herb-assisted health promotion program. Certainly the pharmaceutical cash cows of "cholesterol" and "high blood pressure" pills are unnecessary to those who prefer to explore natural, side-effect free solutions. Garlic is a long-term remedy of chronic, degenerated conditions of the blood circulation system. Short-term use of garlic is particularly applicable to acute problems of the respiratory system such as pneumonia and brochitis. How many dangerous, pharmaceutical drugs has garlic cast asunder by the uses
mentioned already?
Need something that kills pathogens? Use garlic. A clove fed to your dog each week will effectively keep your pet worm free. Works with people, too! Garlic can be used topically to fight infections. In WW I and WW II it was used to prevent gangrene. Garlic is effective against lung infections (e.g. pneumonia) and gut infections (e.g. food poisoning).
Garlic will soften and open up arteries, making them more flexible. This can reduce high blood pressure and reverse arteriosclerosis. Blood vessels in a healthier state means less cholesterol (a protective substance indicative of
degrading arteries) in the blood.
Need better digestion? Garlic stimulates gut contractions and bile secretions. Garlic promotes regularity.
Have a cough keeping you up at night? Garlic is an expectorant and as such it promotes the expulsion of phlegm and mucus. Always nice to get rid of those morbid encumbrances. In other words, it makes the cough go away.
Garlic also has a handy repute in being a malignant cancer fighter.
Geez, garlic fights both heart disease and cancer. How has garlic ever managed to remain on grocery store shelves for so long without the government banning it?
How does one take garlic, you ask? Peel off a clove from a garlic bulb. Remove the course outer layers (like with an onion). Crush it, to break the garlic cells and mix the juices. Then eat it! For the weak of heart put it in a salad, then eat it. A Cordon Bleu chef would cut up the garlic clove finely then press the garlic pieces into salt so as to break a higher percentage of the garlic cells. Odour-less garlic is a poor imitation of the real thing and not worth the gamble (that it will be ineffective) when treating ill-health. Garlic is odiferous when its volatile oil, alliin, mixes with its enzyme, allinase. The odor is the resultant phytoceutical called allicin. Allicin is a powerful antiseptic and it is what gives garlic its wonderful smell and taste.
So smash away! Good food, long life.

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Fibre Drink                                                    

Properties:   

Amphoteric                              
Anthelmentic                          
Antifungal                              
Anti-Malignancy                    
Diaphoretic                            
Diuretic                                  
Expectorant                            
Hypoglycaemic                        
Stimulant                                
Stomachic                                

Contraindication(s):   

Clinical:     10 ml per 100 ml tincture.

Clinicals:    

arteriosclerosis                  
irritable colon                    

Constituents:   

Materia Medica:    (See Materia Medica.)