Garlic: Man's Best Friend in a Toxic World

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Garlic: Man's Best Friend in a Toxic World

 

Garlic has been known for centuries to function as a natural antibiotic. It

destroys the unnecessary and harmful bacteria throughout the human system. It

emulsifies cholesterol and loosens it from arterial walls. It is effective in

arresting intestinal putrefaction; it is used against contagious diseases, high

blood pressure, fevers, parasites, worms, nicotine poisoning, colic, and yeast

infections. (Concern, April 1977, p. 7)

 

The brilliant Dr. Edward Shook, herbalist, pharmacist and one of our illustrious

teachers, began his lectures on garlic with the phrase of the Gentle Shepherd,

" Consider the Lilies. . . " Garlic is a member of the Liliaceae family which

also includes the onion. This is Dr. Shook's botanical description of garlic:

 

Allium Sativum. Natural order. Liliaceae.

 

Common Names Garlic, poor man's treacle.

 

Part used. Bulb.

 

Description. The leaves are long, narrow, and much like grass.

 

The bulb (the only part used) is compound, consisting of numerous bulblets,

commonly called " cloves, " grouped together between the membrane scales, and

enclosed within a whitish skin which holds them as in a sac. The whitish flowers

are located at the end of stalks growing directly out of the bulb. They are

grouped together in globular umbels with spathes surrounding them.

 

It will pay us handsomely to consider this lily because it is one of nature's

great masterpieces as a safe and certain remedy for many of man's serious and

devastating diseases.

 

This wonderful herb has been used from very ancient times both as food and

medicine.

 

Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher (born 372 BC) relates that garlic was placed

by the ancient Greeks on piles of stone at the crossroads as a feast for Hecate

(literally a feast for the gods.)

 

Virgil, the Roman poet (70 BC) in his eclogues states that garlic was part of

the entertainment served by Nestor to his guest Machaon. He also tells us that

it was owing to the virtues of garlic that Ulysses owed his escape from being

changed by Circe into a pig like each of his companions.

 

Galen speaks very highly of it, eulogizing it as the " theriac " or " heal all. "

 

Chaucer calls it " theriac " as do several old English botanists and herbalists.

 

Pliny gives an exceedingly long list of complaints in which it was considered

beneficial.

 

The name garlic is of very ancient Anglo-Saxon origin being derived from gar (a

spear) and lac (a plant) in reference to the shape of its leaves. It is one of

the oldest medicinal remedies known to man, which has been cultivated and used

from time immemorial in the treatment of many diseases. Both its romantic

history and its very remarkable curative virtues are vastly interesting and

educational to all earnest and honest physicians, and it is notable that it

stands out today as one of our greatest and most important therapeutic agents.

 

It is alterative, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, antispasmodic,

antiasthmatic, stimulant, antiseptic, disinfectant, tonic, nervine,

antiphthisic, germicide, and vermicide. Chemical Constituents: Volatile oil (25

percent), mucilage (35 percent), albumen, sugar, starch, fibrin, and 50 percent

water. The oil is a rather complex substance, of a strong, intensely penetrating

odor and consists of allyl compounds of sulfur. It will be seen that this

remarkable herb is heavily laden with organic sulfur, but no oxygen is found in

the oil. Yet, it is the action of oxygen when the skin is taken off the cloves

that releases the sulfur by combining with an allyl group to form allyloxide,

which is also a pungent liquid having a sulfur odor.

 

Many marvelous effects and healing powers have been claimed for garlic. It is

probable that none of them were exaggerated. I, myself, have seen it cure

tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, several skin diseases, stomach ulcers, leg

ulcers, athletes foot, furunculosis, abscesses, epilepsy, and special affinity

for the respiratory tract, lungs, bronchi, and so forth, though it diffuses

itself through the whole system and wherever there is pus, it is a certain and

safe remedy. The use of garlic in the World War as an antiseptic was most

sensational. In 1916, the British government asked for tons of the bulbs

offering one shilling a pound for as much as could be produced. A great quantity

of it was used for the control of suppuration in wounds. The raw juice was

expressed, diluted with water, and put on swabs of sterilized sphagnum moss

which was applied to the wounds. Where this treatment was given, it has been

proved that there has never been one single case of sepsis of septic results.

Consequently, the lives of tens of thousands have been saved by this one

miraculous herb. That was nearly many years ago, and still we do not find garlic

as an official remedy in the United States Pharmacopeia. This is one of the most

disgraceful facts connected with the so-called regular practice of medicine, and

proves beyond all doubt that their practice is neither ethical, moral, or even

humane; otherwise, such a miracle of healing power would never have been

discarded as it was.

 

In olden days, garlic was employed as a specific for leprosy, psoriasis and

several forms of exanthematous skin diseases. It was also believed to have most

beneficial results in smallpox applied to the soles of the feet in a linen cloth

renewed daily.

 

Those unacquainted with garlic might think this was merely superstition; but, as

a matter of fact, it is quite true. If chopped or minced fresh garlic is placed

on the soles of the feet and allowed to remain there for some time, it will not

be long before the odor of garlic can be detected on the breath; and cases of

purulent disease in different parts of the body have been reported completely

cured by simply keeping an application of garlic to the soles of the feet, and

renewing it once or twice a day.

 

We positively know that organic sulfur is a universal antiseptic, whether taken

internally or applied outwardly to any part of the body. It has been

authoritatively reported that tuberculosis has been successfully treated by

inhalation of the freshly expressed juice of garlic, diluted with equal

quantities of water.

 

Garlic was the principal ingredient in the famous Four Thieves Vinegar which was

adapted so successfully at Marseilles for protection against the plague when it

prevailed there in 1772. This originated, it is said, with four thieves who

confessed that, while protected by the liberal use of aromatic garlic vinegar

during the plague, they plundered the dead bodies of the victims with complete

safety. It is stated that during an outbreak of infectious fever in certain poor

quarters of London early in the last century, the French priests who constantly

used garlic in all their dishes visited the very worst cases with impunity,

while the English clergy caught the infection, and in many instances, fell

victims to the disease. Another instance of the remarkable penetrating power of

garlic is the fact that the expressed juice of fresh garlic mixed with olive oil

and rubbed on the chest, throat, and between the shoulder blades gives great

relief in whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis and

dyspnea, according to an English physician who has used it with success for

many years. It also has a reputation for safely reducing high blood pressure,

and in this relation we have an exceedingly valuable formula.

 

Boiling garlic reduces its active virtues considerably. Vinegar and water both

extract its curative principles, though vinegar alone seems to be more effective

for that purpose. Expressed fresh juice of garlic contains all of its many

virtues. The following priceless formulas will cover its therapeutic

applications completely for asthma, bronchitis, catarrhal conditions of the

mucous membranes, phthisis, tuberculosis, coughs, dyspnea, heart weakness,

internal ulcerations, and so forth.

 

 

Garlic Syrup

 

Peel 1 pound of fresh garlic, then chop or mince. Put into a wide mouthed jar

and add equal parts of vinegar and distilled water to just cover the garlic.

Close tightly, shake well, then let stand in a cool place for four days,

thoroughly shaking once or twice a day. Now, add one pint of glycerine, shake

well, and let stand another day. Strain with pressure, then filter liquid

through a muslin or linen cloth. Add three pounds of pure honey, and stir till

thoroughly blended. Put into jars, seal tightly, and store in a cool place.

 

In order to cover the pungent odor of the garlic, in case it is objectionable,

do the following:

 

In place of macerating the garlic in equal parts of vinegar and distilled water,

as directed above, use 1 quart of vinegar in which 3 ounces of powdered caraway

seed and 3 ounces of sweet fennel seed have been slowly boiled for 15 minutes,

while closely covered. Strain and when cold, add 1 pint of glycerine. Use this

in the above formula instead of the vinegar and distilled water mixture.

 

This is much more acceptable to those who have an antipathy to the smell and

taste of garlic. Of course, the 3 pounds of honey are also added after the

filtering process. The deviation in no way affects the curative properties of

the garlic, while it helps materially to disperse gas and flatus. We use

aromatic vinegar in our own preparation of this formula, which is one of the

most meritorious and useful remedies to have on hand. It is harmless, and very

effective in the above mentioned cases, and will please and astonish both you

and the patient.

 

Dose: For asthma and coughs: 1 teaspoonful with or without water every 15

minutes until spasm is controlled; then 1 teaspoonful every 2 or 3 hours for the

rest of the day. After that, 1 teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a day is usually

sufficient.

 

For tuberculosis, cardiac asthma and dyspnea: 1 dessertspoonful to a

tablespoonful 3 or 4 times a day between meals.

 

Children: (8 to 15 years) one half of the above dose; (5 to 8 years) one quarter

dose; (1 to 4 years) one eighth in a little water or honey

 

Garlic has also been used successfully in dropsy. The above formula may be used

with benefit, but the following will be found to be much more prompt and

effective, especially where the heart is much involved.

 

 

Dropsy with Heart Involvement.

 

Boil 8 ounces lily of the valley root (cut) (Convallaria majalis) in 3 pints of

distilled water for 20 minutes. Strain then boil slowly till reduced to 1 pint.

Set aside to cool, and while still warm, add 8 ounces of expressed garlic juice,

8 ounces of brown cane sugar, and 1 pint of glycerine. When cold, bottle and

keep in a coot place.

 

This is one of the most potent remedies for dropsy and heart disease ever

devised.

 

Dose: 1 teaspoonful to a dessertspoonful in water, as required. The dose should

be regulated and given every 3 hours to bring about diuresis. Also, a slowing of

the heart action, and an increase in the tone of its contraction. After this

effect has been produced, administer 1 teaspoonful in water 3 or 4 times a day.

 

Garlic for outward application: For eczema, pityriasis, psoriasis, ulcers,

cancers, swollen glands, tubercular joints, necrosis and all purulent conditions

that are accessible, we recommend the following formula:

 

These garlic formulas we have given you are priceless. It will pay you to study

them, and utilize them with confidence whenever occasion arises. "

 

--(Shook, 1978; reprint. pp. 69-73)

 

Dioscorides, a second century physician and herbalist who traveled with the army

of Alexander the Great, has the following to say on the subject of garlic.

Dioscorides was translated into middle English by a scholar of the middle ages:

 

SKORODON Allium Sativum

 

LEUKOSKORODON Allium Ampeloprasum

 

OPHIOSKORODON Allium Scorodoprasum

 

ELAPHOSKORODON Allium subhirsutum

 

 

Garlic

 

Garluk (some call it Geboscome againe Elaphoboscum, the Latins Allium) some of

it is Satiue & growes in gardens & this in Egypt, being only but of one head as

the teeke, sweet, inclining to a purple colour. But elsewhere, it is compacted

of many white cloues, the cloues that therein (the Greeks) call Aglithai. But

there is another wilde kinde, called Ophioscorodon. (that is Serpent's Garlick).

It hath a sharp, warning biting quanitie, expelling of flatulencies, and

disturbing of the belly, and drying of the stomach causing of thirst & puffing

vp, breeding of boyies in ye outsyde of the body, dulling the sight of the eyes.

And the same thinges don also, (as we should say, Hart's garlick). Being eaten,

it driues out the broade wormes, and drawes away the vrine. It is good, as none

other thing, for such as are bitten of vipers, or of the Haemorrhous, who being

taken presently after, or else that being beaten small in wine & soe dranek. It

is applyed also by ye way of Cataplasme both for

the same purposes profitably, as also layd on upon such as are bitten of mad

dogge. Being eaten, it is good against the chaunge of waters (fauces expediende,

easdeings asperas leniendo.) It doth cleare the arteries & being eaten either

raw or sod, it doth assuage old coughes. Being dranck with decoction of

Origanum, it cloth kill lice and nitts. But being burnt, and tempered with bony

it cloth cure the sugillationes oculorum, and Alopeciae being anointed on, but

for the Alopeciae (it must be applyed) with vnguentum Nardinum. And with salt &

oyle it cloth heale ye eruptiones papularum. It doth take away also the

Vitiligines, & the Lichenes, & the Lentigenes, and the running ulcers of the

head, and the Furfures & ye Lepras, with hony. Being sod with Taeda and

Franckincense, & kept in the mouth it doth assuage the paine of ye teeth. And

with figge leaues & Cummin it is a Cataplasme for such as are bitten of the

Mygale. But the leafes decoction is an insession that brings downe the

Menstrua & the Secondas. It is also taken by way of suffumigation for ye same

purpose. But the stamping that is made of it and ye black olive together, called

Myrton, cloth moue the vrine & open ye mouths of ye veins & it is good also for

the Hydropicall. "

 

(Dioscorides, Book 11, pp. 188-91, under the heading of " Sharp Herbs. " )

 

Let's go into some interesting historical facts on garlic, a most revered

patriarchal herb:

 

" Garlic, a cousin of the lily originated in Central Asia or India, where the

early peoples enjoyed eating raw garlic as an enhancement to their meals. They

also enjoyed longevity, and the lowest incidence of cancer on the planet. "

(Messegue, 1979, p. 132)

 

The builders of the pyramids of Egypt were paid in the coin of the realm; onions

and garlic, a valuable commodity.

 

These builders of the pyramids of Cheops, a Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh, consumed

great quantities of garlic. It was during these times that garlic was elevated

to the rank of a deity.

 

The Ebers Papyrus, 1500 BC, one of the earliest herbal pharmacological documents

we know, mentions garlic used in external applications for wounds.

 

Here is a quotation from the Bible:

 

" We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt for Nought, the cucumbers, and

the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. " (Numbers 11:5)

 

According to Helen Noyes Webster, who interpreted the above quotation in her

book, Herbs, How to Grow Them and How to Use Them, the Israelites traveling with

Moses obviously missed the garlic when they went toward the Promised Land. If

Moses had carried garlic, the Israelites may have been able to avoid intestinal

putrefaction from eating the desert's available lizards and snakes.

 

Homer mentions garlic in his famous Odyssey. The deity Mercury, or Hermes, gave

garlic to Odysseus as a protection against the goddess Circe's evil sorcery in

which she turned men to swine. The athletes of the original Olympic games in

ancient Greece traditionally chewed a clove of garlic before participating in

the games. Galen, an early Greek doctor, spoke of garlic as the panacea of the

common man. Hippocrates prescribed the eating of garlic for uterine tumors. The

Vikings and the Phoenicians always carried garlic on their ocean voyages.

 

The crusaders brought garlic back to France. (In those days, it was a common law

that two men's lives could be sacrificed in order to save a 100 lb. sack of

peppercorns.)

 

A French herbalist, Messegue, born in Gascony, France, states that all the

children born in that province are baptized with a clove of garlic on the lips.

The emperor Charlemagne recommended that his subjects cultivate garlic. King

Henry IV of France was baptized with a clove of garlic on his lips, and although

he was said to have chewed a clove of raw garlic every morning upon arising, he

was still very popular with the ladies.

 

The National Cancer Institute central files show that the incidence of cancer is

extremely low in France where garlic consumption is the greatest and that garlic

eaters in Bulgaria do not have cancer. It is reported in a textbook on

pharmacognosy that a physician in British Columbia has successfully treated

malignant situations by prescribing the eating of garlic.

 

The prophet Mohammed recommend that garlic be applied externally on the sting of

the scorpion or the bite of the viper in the 7th century.

 

" The herb becomes the teacher. Men stray after false goals while the herb he

treads (or in these days, stomps upon) knows much much more. "

 

The above quote was written by Henry Vaughn, the early 17th century poet and

mystic, as well as Hermetic philosopher during the days when the Doctrine of

Signatures was popular. The Doctrine of Signatures was the method by which the

ancients recognized the usage of a plant. According to Nicholas Culpeper, the

17th century English Physician and Herbalist, " and by the icon or image of every

herb, man first found out their virtues. Modern writers laugh at them for it,

but I wonder in my heart how the virtues of herbs first came to be known, if not

by their signatures. The moderns have then from the writings of the

ancients--the ancients had no writings to have them from. "

 

The 17th century " moderns " felt that garlic, with its hollow stalk, helps

afflictions of the windpipe. We know this to be a truth; that garlic is an

antihistamine, and has been successfully used in bronchial and pulmonary

disorders. As we examine some of the virtues of garlic, we find that the claims

of the old Doctrine of Signatures will be far surpassed.

 

The National Dispensatory of 1887 gives us a fine description of the

constituents of garlic at a period in our medical history when Syrupus Alli was

an official U.S. preparation.

 

Constituents.--Besides the cellular tissue, garlic contains between 50 and 60

percent of water, 35 percent of mucilage some albumen, sugar, starch, and about

1 percent of volatile oil, to which its odor and taste are due. In its crude

state, oil of garlic is of a dark brown-yellow color, heavier than water, of a

very interesting taste, and consists of oxide and sulphides of allyl. The

rectified oil consists mainly of the sulphide, (C3H5) 2S, is colorless, lighter

than water and may be obtained artificially by treating an alcoholic solution of

potassium sulphide with allyl iodide. It dissolves easily in alcohol and ether,

and sparingly in water ... Garlic, macerated in water or vinegar, yields its

virtues to these liquids.--(p. 154)

 

They also describe its physiological action and medicinal uses:

 

Physiological action and Medical Uses--Garlic as well as leek and onion, is a

stimulant to the part to which it is directly applied and to be the whole

system. Its odorous element may be perceived on the breath and its taste in the

mouth when the bruised bulb has been applied to the skin. When eaten raw, its

odor " hales from many parts of the body, and, given to nursing women, it taints

their milk, so that their infants refuse the breast. It reddens the skin, and

may even vesicate it. Internally, it stimulates the digestive organs, and is

everywhere used, but principally in southern countries, as a condiment for

various kinds of food. The odor or garlic is popularly employed to revive

persons from a swoon or from hysterical insensibility. It is a vermifuge not to

be neglected in the treatment of lumbricoid worms when given by the mouth, and

for destroying ascarides when administered by the rectum. Many cases of dropsy,

particularly of anasarea produced by cold, have been cured by a

diet of bread and raw onions. This regimen will sometimes produce copious

diuresis. Onions boiled in milk have been used successfully for a like purpose.

Bruised cloves of garlic and poultices of boiled onion are admirable remedies

for chronic bronchitis in children. They should be applied over the whole front

of the chest. Internally, garlic is a very useful agent in the same affection.

It is also a domestic remedy for whooping cough. Onion poultices are

particularly applicable to abscesses; the core of a roasted onion relieves

earache when introduced into the auditory canal. Onion and garlic cataplasms

applied to the perineum relieve strangury. The dose of bruised or chopped garlic

or of the expressed juice is about 30 grains (Gm 2). (p.154-155)

 

Frances Ward published this summary of garlic in her post-World War II book,

British Herbs:

 

" GARLIC Allium Sativum, Amaryllidaceae

 

Anyone who travels in Italian buses might be forgiven for deciding never to grow

this unpleasant smelling plant, and one can quite appreciate the decision of the

old Greeks that people who ate Garlic should not be allowed in the temples of

Cybele.

 

But from early times it has been considered a very useful medicine, and in the

Middle Ages in Britain it was believed to be, either by itself by itself, as a

'simple', or mixed with other herbs, one of the cures for leprosy. Lepers were

often called 'pilgarlics', as they were made to peel their own garlic, certainly

a mark of identity and a means of segregation!

 

Throughout the ages it was held to have antiseptic properties, and during the

1914-18 War, sterilized Sphagnum Moss soaked in Garlic juice was used for

suppurating wounds, a reminder of the old method of treating leprous sores. From

time to time, even in modern days, Garlic has been claimed to have marvelous

properties; now, in addition to its stimulating powers, it is held to be

beneficial in digestive complaints and for coughs, colds and asthma.

 

Cultivation of Garlic is a fairly easy matter, though it needs a finely sifted

soil similar to that of an onion-bed. The cloves should be set about 2 in. in

the ground about February or March, and lightly covered with soil. The bulbs may

usually be lifted during August. There is generally a demand for Garlic from

druggists, and good prices have been paid for it. " (Ward, 1949, p. 159).

 

It in the medical literature we find several references to garlic as a

therapeutic agent.

 

Phytocides of garlic suppress the proteinases (cathepsin) in malignant tumors of

humans (postoperative material) and of experimental animals. These phytocides

also inhibit cathepsin in the liver of cancerous animals, the activity of which

increases during malignant growth. This action was detected by adding garlic

extract to inoculated Ehrlich carcinoma. The results may be useful in further

studies on garlic in the diet of cancer patients. " (p. 140)

 

Joseph A. Di Paolo and Christopher Carruthers of the Roswell Park Memorial

Institute of Buffalo, New York, wrote an article in Cancer Research, 1960. The

title is, " The effect of Allicin From Garlic on Tumor Growth. " By the way,

Allicin is responsible for the odor in garlic, so the new odorless garlic isn't

quite as effective as regular garlic. For those fortunate souls who can ingest

raw garlic; the garlic breath can be obliterated by chewing on a raw clove (not

a garlic clove, but the spice clove), or putting a drop of peppermint of

spearmint oil on the tongue.

 

Chester J. Cavallito and John Hays Bailey writing in the Journal of the Chemical

Society, Volume 66, November, 1944, discuss the antibacterial principle of

garlic, allicin. They isolated allicin, a colorless oil, from garlic cloves and

found it to be effective against the following bacteria strains both gram

positive and gram negative:

 

Organism

 

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

 

STREPTOCOCCUS HEMOLYTICUS

 

STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS

 

B. SUBTILIS

 

B. TYPHOSUS

 

B. PARATHYPHOSUS A

 

B. PARATHYPHOSUS B

 

B. PARATYPHOSUS KUNZENDORF

 

B. MORGANI

 

B. ENTERIDITIS

 

B. TYPHI-MURIUM

 

B. DYSENTERIAE SHIGA

 

B. DYSENTERIAE FLEXNER

 

B. DYSENTERIAE SONNE

 

V. CHOLERAE

 

(P. 1951)

 

H. Dold and A. Knapp, German Researchers writing in Chemotherapy section of

Biological Abstracts in the 1950's discovered that garlic was effective against

Streptococci, Escherichia coli, Bacillius prdigiosis, B. proteus, B. Subtilis,

Shigelia paradysenteriae Flexner, Eberthelia typhosa, Salmonella enteritidis and

Vibrio cholerae. It was more effective when crushed than sliced. It in addition,

garlic exhibited some bacterial action even through the air. Bacteria could not

be made resistant to the garlic either. The antibacterial action of garlic juice

became somewhat weaker after having been stored in the ice box for 8 days and

after boiling for 10 minutes. Remember, too, that when garlic is cooked above

130 degrees F., the enzymes in it are destroyed, and the organic sulphur in the

garlic now becomes a harmful form of inorganic sulphur.

 

A most unique article appeared in the Chinese Medical Journal in May of 1977;

 

" GARLIC SLICE IT IN REPAIRING EARDRUM PERFORATION "

 

by Hsu Wei-cheng

 

Teaching Research Group of Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Inner Mongolia

Medical College, Huhehot

 

" Clinical use of fresh garlic was satisfactory in repairing eardrum perforations

in 18 cases (1 having perforation in both ears) except 1 with irreversible

chronic otitis media. The time required for healing by this method was 16 days

in 12 cases with perforations smaller than half of the eardrum pars tensa and 28

days in 6 cases with perforations larger than half of it. 10-19 db hearing was

gained after treatment.

 

Of the 18 cases, 6 had increased exudate in the middle ear during the latter

part of the garlic treatment. Exudation stopped quickly after treatment was

discontinued and anti-inflammatory measures were taken. It in 4 of these,

healing took place soon after exudation was checked and in 2 it was necessary to

repeat garlic application before the wound healed completely...

 

This method is indicated in adult's traumatic eardrum perforations within 3

weeks of injury provided there is no infection, perforation is not larger than

half of the pars tensa and there is sufficient eardrum left around the

perforation edges. It in cases where the duration of perforation is over one

month and its edges have already become cicatrized, repairing with fresh garlic

slice can only be started after 50% trichloro-acetic-acid has been used to

cauterize the edge (repeat the cauterization every few days, if necessary),

until the formation of whitish ring (0.1-0.2 mm width) and reddish granulation.

 

Prepare a fresh clove of garlic carefully, peel it but leave the transparent

epithelium-layer tightly attached. The external auditory canal is sterilized

routinely. Slice off a very thin piece of the garlic clove (about 0.2 mm thick)

shaping it just large enough to cover the perforation. Keep the epithelium-layer

attached to the garlic slice and insert it into the ear canal and carefully push

it against the eardrum so that its cut surface hugs the peroration while the

epithelial layer covered surface faces the external auditory meatus. Pack the

external auditory meatus with an alcohol moistened cotton ball. Forceful blowing

of the nose is prohibited and water should not be allowed into the ear canal in

order to prevent infection. Usually the garlic slice should be replaced once or

twice a week until healing is complete. Stop treatment when the middle ear

becomes inflamed with excessive exudate and start anti-inflammatory treatment.

 

Garlic is a strong stimulant which hastens growth of new granulation, contains

allin (C6H11O3NS) which rapidly breaks down to yield the antibiotic allicin

(C6H10OS2) in the presence of enzyme allinase and water. " (Chinese Med. Journal,

3 (3); pp. 204-205).

 

" With garlic, the patient himself is doctor, pharmacologist, nurse, and

pharmaceutical manufacturer all in one. "

 

--Yoshio Kato

 

Yoshio Kato of the Oyama Garlic Laboratory in Japan has written a very

comprehensive booklet entitled, Garlic, The Unknown Miracle Worker. It in it he

describes a unique process of garlic juice therapy known as FLOW-LEBEN. in his

own words:

 

" FLOW-LEBEN is a total therapy system of medical application, particularly the

external application of garlic. Application for the patents has been made in ten

countries. Already the patents have been granted in four countries. (The

Republic of China, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.)

 

It is very well known that garlic contains all the elements except Vitamin D. It

is also known that garlic essence warms the body and promotes better circulation

of the blood .... Aillin, an oily substance contained in garlic, diluted as much

as 200 times can kill typhoid germs.

 

Another study reported that garlic juice diluted 30-40 times stops the growth of

certain types of bacteria in a nutrient media--garlic has strong germicidal

properties which are not found in other plants. When aneurinase bacteria grow in

the body, the majority of the internally produced vitamin B1 is spoiled by this

bacteria--garlic shows antipyretic effects when it, diluted with water, is

applied externally to a person's body at times of high fever.

 

FLOW-LEBEN is the only system in the world by which we can obtain the maximum

effects from garlic. The first unit was completed in 1970. It in this clinic,

various concentrations of garlic-water solution are sprayed on the bodies of

patients by means of atmospheric pressure compressed air (2 to 7 lbs.) shot

through atomizing nozzles. Hydraulic pressure is employed in the newer models.

This process stimulates the body's metabolism and removes cholesterol from the

blood. Various functional disorders are eliminated and skin diseases are also

cured by the germicidal effect of garlic. " (Kato, 1973, pp. 173-175)

 

The unique and very deluxe treatment has been effective in treatment of

ringworm, skin cancer, frostbite, and other skin disorders using a 100% solution

of garlic juice.

 

Richard Lucas in Nature's Medicines, published in 1966, presents the history of

the Four Thieves Vinegar:

 

" It in Marseilles, a garlic-vinegar preparation known as the Four Thieves was

credited with protecting many of the people when a plague struck that city

(1722). Some say that the preparation originated with four thieves who confessed

that they used it with complete protection against the plague while they robbed

the bodies of the dead. Others claim that a man named Richard Forthave developed

and sold the preparation, and that the " medicine " was originally referred to as

Forthave's. However, with the passing of time, his surname became corrupted to

Four Thieves. " (Lucas, 1966, p. 3

 

We now have the modern version of the formula. It is known as the anti-plague

formula. It consists of fresh garlic, apple cider vinegar, pure vegetable

glycerine, U.S.P., honey, garlic juice, fresh comfrey root, wormwood, lobelia,

marshmallow root, oak bark, black walnut bark, mullein, skullcap, and uva-ursi.

We recommend that you have several gallons of the preparation on hand in storage

and hope that you will not need it. But, at the time of writing this article, a

radio broadcast informed us of a case of Bubonic Plague with ensuing death in

Lake Tahoe, U.S.A. The medical authorities were trying to locate all of the

persons with whom the late subject came in contact in hopes of isolating the

infection so the general public would not become exposed to this disease. The

plague, related to the Black Plague in Europe during the 1300's, left people

dead in their tracks and hanging out of windows waving goodbye to their friends.

According to Herman Hesse, a German Writer, Goldmund was a

young man who left a 14th century monastery and became a vagabond. He enjoyed

the merriment of the wanderer as he traveled through Europe tasting the

pleasures of love and life. All this was to change as Hesse describes the

character's feeling of powerlessness and horror as he wanders throughout

plague-stricken towns, cities, and rural areas observing the Hand of Death had

reached everywhere; striking people regardless of their social standing or age.

He describes a grotesque scene in a farm cottage where an entire family lay

frozen after the throes of death.

 

 

Anti-Plague Formula

 

The best insurance in the world against the " predicted coming plagues " and

" killing diseases " is to have the body in a good healthy condition. Disease

germs are merely scavengers and can only live on toxins, mucus and residue from

junk foods. They cannot and will not be damage healthy cell structure. Therein

lies the key! Have a healthy, clean body and disease germs will by-pass

you--wanting nothing to do with your body, because it would be " obnoxiously

clean " (in their language) and no filth for them to live on.

 

If the plague, or some other epidemic hits before you are in a good healthy

condition, it is good to have an aid for a fast cleaning.

 

While lecturing in Snowflake, Arizona one night, one of the group asked if we

had an anti-plague formula, and I was prompted to give them a " certain

combination " of herbs to use.

 

The people there were very impressed to go right to work and prepare this

liquid, having it read for use. We had told them that plagues come at unexpected

times and it could be tomorrow or maybe even years away, but expect the

unexpected and be ready now. If the formula was still unused, from " no need "

years later, we could all be happy but " TIS BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY " .

 

These good people made it up in gallon lots and had it on hand. Months later

while speaking in Tucson, Arizona, someone asked for the " anti-plague remedy. " I

was surprised and asked where they had heard of it, as we had only given it out

once. We were informed that a plague-like condition or flu had hit the Snowflake

area and when other aids failed, this combination of herbs in liquid form

performed its job with amazing speed.

 

At our next series of lectures in Snowflake, some time later, we heard one

testimony after another about the many different types of ailments that were

given quick relief by using this formula. The formula has now spread in many

areas from coast to coast and is being used with good results. A man picked us

up at an airport on the west coast a short time ago, and on the floor of his car

was a bottle with liquid in it. When asked what it was he said, " oh, that's your

anti-plague remedy, we never travel without it as it works good on about any

sickness that comes up while we are traveling. We are also never without a

bottle of it at home. "

 

Anti-Plague Formula is available in The Cold Sheet Treatment book.

 

Because of the wonders we have told you about in this article of the greatness

of garlic, it is easy to see how it fits in this formula. Drop a culture of

almost any known disease germ into " apple juice " or " apple cider vinegar " an it

will die immediately. The ingredients found in " black walnut " are one of the

few-known herbal-destroyers of fungus. Marshmallow is the enemy of gangrene and

peritonitis. It is a " softening emollient " that will aid in removal of the

inorganic deposits broken up by the " solvent " gravel root. Wormwood relieves

pain and kills pin-worms and other unwanted parasites, etc. Oak bark tones and

firms up the cells in the muscles, cartilage, and flesh. It is also an aid in

rebuilding the circulatory system and feeding it. Scullcap is one of the finest

nerve repairing and rebuilding aids. It works especially well on the spinal

cord--the trunkline for health to the entire body. Comfrey is the

cell-proliferant that causes the good cells to multiply rapidly and push

out the waste and dead-cell structure, being supplied with the wonderful

allantoin. Lobelia is the Lord's great catalyst to combine the herbal entities

to a " smoothly-operating whole. "

 

Garlic is a handy herb that will grow right in your own yard, taking very little

space, but which should be in everybody's yard. Any time of the year it is

needed, one can go out and dig up the bulb. This can be done in spring, summer,

or fall, in an emergency, but the best harvest time is autumn, when the leaves

have died down. After shaking off the dirt, the bulbs can be put into a mesh bag

and hung in the shade where the cool air can circulate through the bulbs.

 

The single buttons or cloves, that make up the bulb, can be planted in the fall

and by going through the winter will come up the following year in the form of a

bulb, with a number of cloves or buttons. When planted in the spring, they will

generally be just a larger button by fall and not become a bulb. Some people

will put the garlic buttons into the refrigerator (not freezer) and keep cold

for a few weeks, bring them out into room temperature for several weeks, and

repeat this process several times. Thus, the garlic now believes it has gone

through several winters and it mature enough to develop from a clove into a

bulb. Rather sneaky we would say, but if it works, fine!

 

Garlic can be planted around rose bushes and other aphid infested plants and the

aphids will disappear. Gardeners have reported to us that they plant garlic

between the rows of cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., and the garlic will discourage

plant-destroying bugs, cut worms, etc. Here " you can have your cake and eat it

too " for you can get the value of garden-assistance from this herb during the

growing season, and then thin them out in the fall to use as a food and a

healing herb during the winter.

 

The reason for garlic's miraculous type of healing is in its creation, and this

will be explained in more detail further along in this article. Briefly now,

this is what happens: The garlic clove contains a very high amount of sulphur;

sulphur is one of the best minerals to be used as an oxygen carrier. Oxygen is

the breath of life and sulphur will carry the oxygen in the body directly to the

infected area. Germs cannot live in a good supply of oxygen, therefore, the

infection is cleared quickly. This is an organic wonder, so garlic may be termed

'a wonder herb'.

 

Medical science discovered that sulphur caused this rapid healing, so in World

War II, flowers of sulphur (an inorganic mined-mineral) was substituted for the

garlic. The army used sulfa for practically every ailment from " falling hair to

fallen arches. " Wonderful results were reported to us and we were told to use it

in ever increasing amounts.

 

The difference in he healings of the garlic and the inorganic, manmade remedies

is that garlic does its job and the excess of the organic materials not being

used in healing the infection is easily passed as harmless vegetable fiber from

the body. No harm and certainly nothing but good could result from using this

powerful, yet harmless, herb. But, with the man-made sulfa drug we used, (this

'wonder drug' healing or the infection), the inorganic flowers of sulphur

remained in the body. This inorganic mineral eventually combined with the urine

and formed a substance that cut up the urinary tract, causing bed wetters. Many

soldiers and other servicemen were given medical discharges, because of " bed

wetting " . This habit was acquired while in the service after the use of sulfa

drugs. It is a well-known fact that too much sulfa drug has also caused other

problems. The sulphur in the garlic will assist in healing the urinary tract

after its infection-clearing job, instead of damaging it.

 

Following are various other uses of garlic. Many people have been helped in

ridding the body of worms by inserting a peeled button of garlic as high as

possible into the rectum. Do this just before retiring at night and it will come

out with the first bowel movement in the morning. (This is also a fine aid in

adjusting high blood pressure and low blood pressure). Many mothers find it

easier to insert the peeled button of garlic (into the child's rectum) after the

child is asleep at night.

 

Here is a very successful routine for removal of these unwanted growths called

moles, or warts. Take a button of garlic, slice or cut in two, and placed the

cup area over a wart of mole. Tape it on, and as it dries out put a fresh piece.

Many users have reported good results.

 

Massage painful joints and areas with Oil of Garlic, massage it thoroughly.

Massage in thoroughly oil of garlic a number of times a day for rough hands.

 

To make oil of garlic place chopped or grated garlic in a bottle, glass

servicing dish or baking dish, (an inch or more of the garlic), and cover with

olive oil so that the oil is a half inch or so above the garlic. Keep in a warm

place or in the sun two to three days. Strain with muslin or any good cotton

material (no synthetics) and bottle the oil. Keep in a cool place.

 

I remember one time we were called out to a house in the wee hours of the

morning. This call was to see a little boy, under the age of two years, that had

double pneumonia. The physician on the case had informed the parents that

nothing more could be done and he would come back in the morning to sign the

child's death certificate. Seeing as it was well under forty degrees below zero

and nearly fifty miles from ambulance service, the parents were told that the

boy, if taken by car to a hospital, would surely die. These parents tried to get

other doctors, but at that time of night, and in such a remote area, no one

would offer help. A friend told them about us, then living in Evanston, Wyoming,

and to try to call us. Having been told of the boy's condition we went expecting

to give him the cold-sheet treatment. Upon arriving there we found that the

plumbing was frozen and there was not running water in the house. We found

enough in the toilet tank above the bowl to give the little chap

an enema. We were not able to give the cold sheet treatment (no water) so only

the garlic paste was made up and applied. This was done after a complete massage

of the body and the feet. After oiling the feet up to the ankles, thoroughly,

and massaging the olive oil in well, a half-inch thickness of the garlic paste

was applied to the soles of his feet. (This is put on only the soles and not up

onto the sides). Then gauze was placed over to cover the paste, bandages to hold

it into place, and a loose white cotton sock was pulled over the bandages to

hold them securely.

 

Garlic paste is made by taking freshly peeled buttons of garlic and garlic about

half and half with Vaseline. This amount can vary, according to the toughness of

the feet, more Vaseline for tender feet, less for thicker skin. Many of the

health minded readers will be shocked by our using a low-vibration ointment like

Vaseline instead of using anhydrous lanolin or some lighter more organic type.

The reasoning for this is that the lighter type ointments will penetrate more

quickly into the skin, but the Vaseline will hold the garlic on the ointment

form. This will also keep the garlic from blistering as easily. (A garlic

blister looks bad, but does not hurt and heals back quickly.) The little boy was

running an extremely high fever and was delirious when he was covered and put

back into bed. (This was well after 2:00 a.m.). We assured the parents the child

would be all right and would get well. A few days later we were called again by

these parents. They told us that the doctor came

back to sign the death certificate that next morning, but the little boy was

sitting in his high chair, drinking some juice and breathing normally as if

nothing had happened the night before. The doctor became so angry and demanded

to know the name of the other doctor who had taken over the case before it had

been released by him. He wanted a hearing by " the board " to have the other

doctor thrown out of practice for going " against procedure " by taking over a

case without written release. The parents asked if his " release " was the death

of their child? He probably changed his mind because we were not brought before

a hearing.

 

I had forgotten this case until nearly twenty years had passed. One evening,

after a lecture in another state, a fine-looking young fellow in his early

twenties came up to the podium and shook my hand vigorously, saying he had

always wanted to meet me. His mother had told him of our long trip in sub-zero

weather at night to their house, of using the natural methods on, and saving his

life. He stated that he enjoyed living so much he had been looking forward to

meeting me.

 

That paid off for a cold night out on a house call by far more than the small

fee that was charged.

 

Used by permission. Dr. Christopher's Newsletters: Volume 2 Number 9

 

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