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Healing recipes with Garlic.

The plant Garlic (botanical name "Allium Sativum L.") has been known to mankind for 5000 years as a spice and as a preventive remedy. The ancient Greeks and Romans, sending their warriors to battles, added Garlic to their food. At that time, when it was not possible to understand why Garlic has obvious healing properties, it was used in medicine, based on observations of the health of people who often ate Garlic.

Modern science has found the answer to the question of why Garlic is good for health? The healing properties of Garlic determine the essential oils in the composition of leaves, stems and bulbs, which contain the glycoside Alliin, which, under the action of digestive enzymes, turns into the substance Allicin. It is this substance that is a microbiocidal agent which determines the therapeutic and prophylactic properties of Garlic. Phytoncides, which the Garlic plant secretes when the integrity of the leaves, stems (arrows for flowering) and bulbs are violated, also have bactericidal and fungicidal (antifungal) properties, which turns Garlic into a universal herbal antiseptic. In addition to these obvious medicinal effects, Garlic is useful in that it contains many vitamins and microelements in the composition of greens and bulbs, in particular Iodine, which in nature can only be found in a few types of lettuce and cabbage plants or in seaweed.

Phytoncides of Garlic are quite stable substances, they are not destroyed even during heat treatment, which allows you to add Garlic at all stages of cooking. But the best effect of Garlic as a spice and as a medicine is achieved on the condition that it is added to dishes at the end of their preparation - in this case, vitamins and substances that have an antiseptic effect are not destroyed. Garlic owes its composition and properties to destroy helminths that cannot stand bitterness. For this reason, any food with thermally unprocessed Garlic turns automatically into an anthelmintic agent.

As a healing herbal remedy, Garlic has a number of properties that are not typical for plants of its botanical level:

Expands blood vessels,
Lowers blood pressure,
It has an anti-sclerotic effect on blood vessels,
Helps with flatulence and diarrhea of any etiology,
Lowers blood sugar levels.

What is most unusual about Garlic is that it is enhanced in the presence of milk, which explains the usefulness of a number of recipes where Garlic is used to add to milk drinks.

Several useful healing recipes with Garlic will always have on hand a remedy for home treatment and prevention of many diseases.

Garlic tincture.

Garlic tincture is prepared in advance. For its preparation, you will need 70% alcohol or an alcoholic beverage with the highest percentage of alcohol (vodka, whiskey, gin, cognac). Fill one third of the volume of a liter bottle with crushed or crushed garlic cloves. This corresponds to 7 ounces of garlic bulbs. Fill the remaining volume of the bottle with the indicated alcohol or alcohol diluted with water in a ratio of one to one. Seal the bottle tightly, put in a dark place for infusion and shake daily. After two weeks, strain the infusion and pour into an airtight glass container for storage. Infusion of Garlic take 10-20 drops 2-3 times a day with meals or after meals. 10 drops of infusion corresponds to half a teaspoon, 20 drops corresponds to one teaspoon. Garlic tincture helps with congestion and fermentation in the intestines, with colitis and intestinal atony, as a prevention of atherosclerosis and hypertension. Garlic infusion is contraindicated in kidney diseases due to irritation of the renal parenchyma.

Healing milk drink with garlic.

To prepare a milk drink with Garlic, you will need 17 ounces of kefir or unflavored yogurt and four medium-sized cloves of garlic. The drink is prepared in glass, porcelain or enamelware. Finely chop or crush the garlic, add to kefir or yogurt and leave in an open container for four to five hours at room temperature (the higher the temperature in the room, the shorter the infusion time). After the specified time, strain kefir or yogurt and drink half a glass as a drink during meals or after meals. A garlic milk drink can be used as a base for a cold soup to which other vegetables (raw or pickled cucumbers, boiled potatoes, eggs) or slices of bread are added. Garlic milk drink improves digestion and disinfects the gastrointestinal tract.

Milk with Garlic.

To prepare milk with Garlic, you will need a glass of boiled milk and a clove of garlic. Crush a clove of Garlic into a pulp and add to the milk (slightly cooled). Give the milk time to infuse to room temperature, stir the suspension of Garlic and drink as a therapeutic or prophylactic during meals or after meals. Milk with Garlic is consumed during the period of prevention or treatment of respiratory infections. It has a tonic effect on the immune system and has a microbiocidal effect (has a detrimental effect on microorganisms).