Most everybody keeps Stinking Rose; Russian Penicillin; Poor Man’s Teacle; Da Suan; in their kitchen. All great names but most people know it as garlic. Garlic, an herb we keep in our kitchens and add to almost everything we eat. That is, if you’re not allergic to it or don’t like the taste or smell of garlic. Those of us who do like garlic hardy know how good it is for us or the healing properties of garlic.
Garlic is not just used to keep vampires away or ghosts from entering our homes at night. Garlic’s history goes back to the beginnings of time, it has been mentioned in the bible, and it was used as a trade item in the Roman days and has been long know for reducing blood cholesterol.
Garlic helps protect you from many types of infectious disease including Salmonella bacteria (the one that causes food poisoning). Dr. Albert Schweitzer used garlic to treat cholera, typhoid and typhus infections. Garlic was used for many problems of the circulatory system because it helps to prevent blood clots. It lowers serum cholesterol and inhibits cancer cells by inhibiting nitrosamine formation (an organic carcinogenic (cancer causing) compound found in various food.) It’s no wonder that garlic has been around for so long.
There have been extensive studies starting with Louis Pasteur’s experiment showing how garlic killed bacteria in his laboratory. A precursor to the penicillin? More modern studies have confirmed Pasteur’s findings as well as testing it against many bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
It has been compared to commercial prescriptions antibiotics and found to treat several bacteria better then the commercial prescription.
This makes garlic potentially effective against superbugs as our bodies don’t build up a resistance against it like we do with modern antibiotics. Although garlic doesn’t come with any warning labels it has been know to provoke anger and emotional irritability in some people. Excess use of garlic (the key word is excess) can irritate the stomach and kidneys and has been know to cause excessive sexual behavior (not the pretty kind either).
It kept our ancestors healthy so they could pass on the stories about using garlic against ghosts and vampires-this way the stories would pass down through the ages so garlic would always be around.
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