The time has come not only for warm blankets and gatherings over tea, but, unfortunately, also for colds. One of the best remedies for the first signs of a cold is garlic.
The time has come not only for warm blankets and gatherings over tea, but, unfortunately, also for colds. One of the best remedies for the first signs of a cold is garlic.
Don’t rush to immediately remember its specific smell, remember that this magnificent flavoring seasoning contains sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, silicic, sulfuric, phosphoric acids, vitamins C, D, B, phytosterols, phytoncides and essential oils. The smell is nothing compared to this. It's very easy to get rid of.
My friend from St. Petersburg, Irina Petrovna Tretyakova, puts garlic on the table along with salt and pepper in the off-season. “Irina Petrovna,” I ask her, “how can we go to the theater if we eat garlic?” To this she hands me several pieces of cloves.
Chewing a clove will freshen your breath. If you don't like cloves, replace it with cinnamon or ginger. So, back to the garlic. This miracle plant is known to be a natural antibiotic.
In addition, these small white lobes can kill bacteria and germs. I have long listened to the advice of wise people and during frosty times I place peeled heads of garlic around the apartment.
Garlic fights bacteria for me for several hours. You can check the apartment later. This procedure simply must be carried out when someone in the family catches the flu virus or gets a sore throat.
Well, just as garlic cleanses the blood, it has no equal in this matter. My mother suffers from hypertension, she clearly knows that garlic lowers blood pressure. Every hypertensive person knows that the blood must be thinned to avoid blood clots. Garlic can easily cope with this too.
Garlic counteracts aging and clogging of not only the main but also peripheral arteries. The therapeutic effect can be achieved by taking two to three cloves of garlic daily.
Nothing extra except honey and garlic
The classic said that beauty will save the world. And who will save beauty? Garlic!
Each of us wants to stay young and beautiful longer. So, garlic is full of selenium, thanks to which we can maintain our attractiveness for a long time.
I have been periodically preparing the following potion from garlic for a long time now. You will have a good complexion, healthy sleep, and in winter your skin will be able to resist chapping. I'm ready to share the recipe with you. Take a liter of honey, add the juice of 10 lemons, and grind 10 heads of garlic in a meat grinder.
Mix and put in a jar so that the mixture can breathe, cover the neck with a cloth. Let's leave the jar for 10 days. We take 4 teaspoons every day for 2 months. You know what older people told me about this medicine - that it works wonders.
I know a person who could not walk 50 steps without shortness of breath, sat down on every bench, and after two weeks of regular use he began to easily walk two bus stops.
Historical information:
Scientists suggest that the inhabitants of the Middle East and Central Asia were the first to learn about this medicinal plant, and this happened more than 5 thousand years ago!
Long before our era, this amazing plant was eaten and used for medicinal purposes. Remains of garlic were found by archaeologists during excavations of settlements that existed more than 10 thousand years ago!
Mentions of garlic are found in the Bible and other ancient sacred texts. The ancient Egyptians especially valued garlic. Information about the cultivation of these vegetables is found in papyri.
The remains of these plants were found in the tombs of the pharaohs, built in the 2nd millennium BC. e.