Garlic

How many people can predict the weather? Probably more than we think. Some people "feel" that a storm is heading our way with their bodies. This is real, they really feel when the pressure drops. The walls of their cells have hardened to the point that when a low pressure comes in, the cells balloon up and pinch the nerves around them. They feel the discomfort. The body wasn't designed to do this, then how can it be fixed?

We can fix this with our little friend, the Garlic. Garlic has the ability to soften the cell walls, thus allowing the pressure to equalize. When the cell walls are softened they can also get rid of toxins that are in each cell and take in the nutrition that it needs and wants.

O.k. so that is one of the many things that Garlic can do.

I had a friend asked me a few days ago, "What is the best herbal antibiotic." Of course my first reaction was to tell her Garlic but then I decided to see what Dr. James Duke had in his database on antibiotics. According to him, Onion was the highest, another member of this wonderful family.

While I was in Dukes Database, I decided to see what other things Garlic could handle and I wasn't surprise. With over 200 components in these little bulbs, it packs a wallop. Some of the components had perfume as its ability and we have to admit that Garlic does emit a powerful smell but it is allowed to do that because of all its other abilities. I picked out a few that had many (not less than 5 and sometime many more) components working on this particular ability. What I found was that it is Antibacterial, Antidiabetic, Antiflu, Antiinflamatory, Antileukemic Antioxident, Antiseptic, Antispasmodic, Antitumor, Antiviral, Cardioprotective, Chelates metals, is a Fungicide, Liver protective, Perfumery, Pesticide, and Vasodilator.

Now I have to tell a story about Garlic. I have a girlfriend who really believes in Garlic and felt that it kept her from getting sick. So she would eat a lot of it. Her business associates at work have asked her not to do this as they can smell it on her all the time. It got so bad that they suggested that she stay home until the smell is gone. She called me up and told me about this, wanting to know what would be just as antiviral as Garlic. I suggested that she could come to my house and pick a bouquet of Lemon Balm. She could put these into a vase on her desk and nibble on the leaves until they were gone. Then she was always welcome to get another bouquet.

When one uses Garlic and it is opening the cell walls, it doesn't know that you don't want the skin cells opened. Its job is to open cell walls so the garlic smell permeates everything. The bad part is that like a smoker, the person eating Garlic doesn't notice this smell. They don't know that everything they wear smells like that too. Eating some Garlic will not create this problem, it is only a problem when one does a lot of it.

Garlic has been associated with a lot of folk lore. My guess is that even vampires don't like the smell.

Some of the properties that are in Garlic but not in large amounts are able to handle other things. They are Antialzheimeran, Antiarrhythmic, Antiasthmatic, Anticataract, Antilymphonic, Antiparkinsonian, Antistroke, and it even had a couple of its many properties that were antiHIV. Plants really are designed to help us get and stay well.

It is my opinion that one should never take the same food all the time, and herbs are foods. One should vary what is being taken. I tell my classes that it wouldn't be a good idea to always have the same cheese sandwich for every meal. We need to vary our diet so that the components that are in one food/herb are not duplicated all the time. We need a variety of components in our bodies, this way our bodies get to choose what it wants and needs to stay healthy. The only exception to this would be when you are working on a specific problem. Let's say that you are working on the flu, and then you might want to use a lot of Garlic or whatever you have been using for this. Each food/herb gives the body choices of components to use for the benefit of keeping it in balance. The herbs/foods are in balance or they would not be healthy either.

There is a story about the European Plague. It goes something like this. It seems that people were dropping dead in the streets and no one wanted to move the bodies for fear of getting this plague. The police found that someone was touching the bodies and stealing all the jewelry and money on them. They finally caught the people doing this and told them that if they would tell how they could do this without getting sick, no charges would be brought. It seems that they had created a formula that they took. It was very high in Garlic. Dr. Christopher, one of my mentors created a formula based on this and called it his ANTIPLAGUE FORMULA.

I used this formula when I was treating my daughter. I didn't know what was wrong with her but she was very sick and had been for a week by the time she called me. She couldn't get her head off the pillow without a pounding headache. I gave her some peppermint tea (I will be talking about this herb in one of my later blog stories) and followed it up with a tablespoonful of Antiplague Formula. I did this every hour. (When treating a problem, herbs can be used every hour) By the fourth hour, she broke out with a major sweat; I bathed her and tucked her in for the rest of the night. I kept checking on her but she was sleeping so nicely that I didn't disturb her again. In the morning she was sitting next to my bed when I woke up. I asked if she wanted to lie down. She told me that it was so nice to be able to sit up and hold her head up and not feel sick but she thought that we would have to burn her nightie. She also told me that the formula was "God Awful". I don't agree with her but it did the job.

Sometimes we have to bring out the big guns to heal and Garlic is one of my Big Guns.