Garlic is a purifying substance that aids the body in removing toxic substances from our bodies. When we get food poisoned by fish or seafood, we should always take some garlic.

Garlic may help maintain a healthy heart and circulation, by keeping the blood cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid at a normal level. It improves blood flow and reduces blood pressure. It is used to stop blood clots and thrombus forming within the blood vessels. It will arrest growth and development of unfriendly bacteria in blood, like those that cause Meningitis, typhus, diphtheria, pneumonia and some other illnesses.

It reduces blood sugar level, what means that garlic is highly recommended for diabetics. In cases of patients suffering from hypertension, it may induce a decrease in arterial tension because it appears to be a potent vasodilator. It decreases the rate at which the heart beats.

It reduces your chances of having a heart attack and angina. It prevents atherosclerosis that refers to the build up of plaque in the walls of the arteries leading to a reduction in the calibre of the vessel.

Patients, who suffer from arthrosis, osteoporosis or rheumatism, will eliminate more easily toxic residues from joints. Garlic also helps to improve microcirculation and as a result nutrients and minerals flow to the bones and joints.

Garlic is a powerful antibiotic: it eliminates unfriendly bacteria and protects bacterial flora (intestinal friendly bacteria). It helps to relieve intestinal flatulence and putrefactions. It eases digestion by stimulating the liver, the gall bladder and the pancreas: it eases saliva and gastric juices secretion.

Eating garlic will directly attack appendicitis and even prevent it. It s an ancient remedy used to kill intestinal parasites like larva and worms. It is a good remedy against diarrhoea but also can be used as a laxative when you suffer from constipation. It increases biliary secretion and enhance the bile flow from vesicle to digestive tube.

Garlic has been used to treat impotence and frigidity and can have aphrodisiac and stimulant qualities. It increases sexual appetite.

By consuming garlic, women can loose a larger volume of blood by menstruation. Do not eat any garlic if you have a very heavy period bleeding or haemorrhage.

Garlic becomes one of the best natural remedies to cure infectious processes of respiratory tract: Influenza, bronchitis, laryngitis, colds, and pneumonia. It has expectorant and decongestant properties.

It is recommended for asthmatics. It has also disinfectant properties on lungs damaged by tobacco.

It enhances the formation of scar tissue on wounds with difficulties to cicatrize: fry some garlic cloves up on a pan in coconut oil. Rub the affected zone with it. Its bactericide properties make it a good disinfectant against insect bites and dandruff: rub your head with a mixture of honey and garlic.

It can also be used –externally used- to fight warts, herpes and exterior or interior fungus.

It increases the level of thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland, what means that garlic is recommended to fight against obesity and hypothyroidism.

It enhances insulin secretion in blood flow from pancreas, so garlic helps to control glucose levels in diabetics.

It enhances internal corticoid secretion by the suprarenal glands: that is the most important characteristic because it is well known that medicine uses corticoids for allergic illnesses, lungs diseases and rheumatisms.

Garlic helps the immune system to respond quickly to any kind of infection. It reinforces the immune system against bacteria, virus, fungus and parasites. For an instance: By 1620, in Toulouse, several burglaries were committed by four thieves.

They broke into houses where residents dead by pest. Later they released their secret: It seems that they never got infected because they had eaten garlic.

More recent studies seem to relate the consumption of garlic with cancer inhibition.

Garlic used as an antidepressant: it is used to relieve symptoms in depressive illness because it is proved to recover lost vitality and, furthermore, to get a better quality of life. Garlic keeps our mental well-being.