The Artistic Farmer

Allium sativum. Liliaceae                                                                       

Found in damp pastures and woodlands, also widely cultivated. Its leaves are oval and with very strong onion order. Flowers are white and starry, also strong scented. The Gypsies worship this plant (moly) for its remarkable medicinal powers. The leaves and flowers are used. To cleanse garlic order from breath, chew parsley or mint or basil or thyme, after eating even a little garlic.

Use, internal:

Garlic is one of the few herbs found useful in all disorders of the human body. It is one of the most powerfully antiseptic herbs known to the herbalist. Acts powerfully on the mucous membranes in all parts of the body, and penetrates the bloodstream from the feet to the brain. It is further useful when the body is in normal health, as a general tonic and worm deterrent. Useful in fevers, and all disorders of the blood and lungs-including tuberculosis, for which it is a specific. Against whooping cough and asthma, high blood pressure, goiter and of worms, including tapeworms. Protects against all infectious ailments, expels all toxic elements, kills harmful bacteria. Also protects the body and hair from parasites.

Use, external:

A good rub in arthritic and rheumatic pains, used hot. Garlic both externally and internally is a most effective cure of threadworms-so difficult to eradicate. Several cloves are taken night and morning, fasting; at night raw clove, smeared in oil, is inserted to the anus.

Dose:

Preferably take garlic raw, in form of a handful of leaves, or two or three cloves, eaten with a salad. Garlic burns the mouth slightly, but is quite palatable. Or it can be taken dry , powdered, form, made into pills from three to six grains. Put garlic cloves (about four to one pound) into bread when baking, also add to vegetables when cooking. In that way garlic supplies food value and its own oil, but for medicinal purposes use raw. The juice has use as a glue component.