Health Benefits Of Garlic

Hailed as the oldest cultivated plant in the world, garlic’s amazing health and healing qualities have been legendary for longer than the written word. Garlic is a natural remedy that has been handed down for centuries. In fact, the Chinese have been using garlic for medicinal purposes for more than three thousand years.

This ancient remedy has been used to combat anemia, improve liver function, lower blood pressure, prevent constipation and facilitate blood flow.

Due to garlic’s high sulfur content, it has also been used to combat fungi, and to inhibit salmonella

Poison and bites by mosquitoes, bees and scorpions. There has been so much research done on the health benefits of garlic that it would take volumes to explain it all. Although hundreds of studies have documented the health benefits of garlic, our great grandparents didn’t need studies–they relied upon from folk remedies and wisdom passed down for generations–and from their own experiences.

We know that garlic is good for us, so let’s explore more of the powerful health and healing benefits garlic has to offer.

Below are some health benefits related to the use of Garlic;

•      Relieves Ear Infections or Aches

The use of garlic oil for ear infections or ear aches is an important natural remedy handed down for generations. One recent study showed that 14 strains of bacteria (taken from the noses and throats of children who had ear infections) were killed when treated with garlic.

Try and get more fresh garlic into your children’s diets—it may help eliminate these

Infections altogether.

• Helps to Lower Cholesterol

Here’s another good reason to eat fresh garlic daily. The liver makes cholesterol, so we don’t need to eat any extra in our foods.

Unfortunately, cholesterol is everywhere. Help lower your cholesterol by making better food choices and by eating one-half to one clove of fresh garlic every day.

Studies showed that eating this amount of garlic on a daily basis lowered cholesterol about 9 percent.

 

•          Cough or Chest Cold Remedy

Garlic can be used to fight coughs, chest colds and bacterial infections.

Crush a few garlic cloves, put them in a jar or bowl, and cover them in olive oil.

Rub the oil on your feet.

(Adults can put garlic pieces between your toes.)

Then put on socks and go to sleep.

The garlic enters your system and heads to the lungs.

It enhances your immune system and fights viruses.

You can also spread garlic directly on your chest and back to soften the cough and relieve airways.

• Garlic May Help You Live Longer

Effects on longevity are basically impossible to prove in humans.

But given the beneficial effects on important risk factors like blood pressure, it makes sense that garlic could help you live longer.

The fact that it can fight infectious disease is also an important factor, because these are common causes of death, especially in the elderly or people with dysfunctional immune systems.

 

• Anything Else

For thousands of years, garlic was believed to have medicinal properties. We now have the science to confirm it.