Garlic: Natural Wonder?

Throughout history garlic has been used for everything from fighting vampires to curing the common cold. The Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Vikings and Phoenicians used garlic regularly for medicinal purposes, even the Native Americans used it to treat stomach problems.

The ancient peoples of the world recognized garlic as powerful herb. It was even reportedly used by the Europeans during the Bubonic Plague years to boost immunity and is still used world wide for its immunity boosting properties. The Russians used it to treat influenza and the American colonists used garlic to rid themselves of parasites.

More recently garlic has been recognized as a potential treatment for cardiovascular diseases and cancer prevention as well as approximately 45 other common health problems. For more information on the health benefits of garlic click the following link to the
Garlic Information Centre.

With the development of antibiotics and penicillin garlic has been largely ignored as a medical treatment. It’s only recently that garlic is making a come back in the general population. As more and more people look to using herbs to prevent sickness garlic is again becoming popular.

Garlic is easily available in many forms. There are fresh cloves that can be chopped or crushed for cooking. A pure juice is available as well as capsules (powdered garlic) and pearls (capsulated garlic oil).

For the garlic lover it’s easy to incorporate garlic into meals. For the cook in the family try the following links to find some great recipes that use garlic: Garlic Central and Garlic History.

Many people avoid garlic because of “garlic breath” that seems to linger. This is no longer a problem since there are deodorized forms of garlic readily available. For the people who enjoy fresh garlic you can try eating fresh parsley or lemon to help neutralize the odour.

There are so many reasons to incorporate garlic into your daily routine. Do some research at the sites listed above and discover for yourself the reason garlic is referred to as one of natures wonders. Talk to a herbalist or your doctor and see how you can include garlic into your preventive health program.