Re: Garlic As A Remedy
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GARLIC AS A REMEDY [Garlic As Remedy]
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical,
Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker
Volume: 1934 Aug Vol LXIX No 824
Author: Ellis Barker J
Subject: General Topics
Remedy:
THE oldest remedies which have stood the test of centuries of
experience are infinitely safer than "the latest and the most
scientific" products of the great chemical laboratories which are
boosted for a time and then sink into well-deserved oblivion. One of
the oldest remedies known to medical science is garlic. Herodotus,
the
Father of History, has told us that it was worshipped in Ancient
Egypt, and it is mentioned in the Papyri as a most valuable medicine.
The Greeks and the ancient Jews had a similar veneration for this
mal-
odorous bulb. It was highly praised by the great Roman writers, among
them Plinius, and highly recommended by Sydenham, the English
Hippocrates, Cullen, and other great physicians of the past.
The onion family have according to ancient tradition wonderful
healing properties. When the Jews were wandering in the Wilderness
they cried out for "the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and
the
onions and the garlic" which they much preferred to the heavenly
manna. That will be seen by reference to Numbers, chapter xi. The
nations of the North, the more civilized nations, hardly touch
garlic.
It is too mal-odorous. The Southern and Eastern nations are great
eaters of "the leeks, the onions and garlic." The whole of Italy,
Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor reek of garlic. The garlic-eating
nations make jokes about the pungent odour, but they eat garlic and
the same and they believe, probably with excellent reason, that it is
almost a cure all. That tradition which is based on thousands of
years
of continued experience cannot be regarded. Industrious chemists may
try to extract from garlic the "essential principle" and they may
give
us deodorized garlic highly recommended by scientists and pseudo-
scientists. However, Nature has a habit of blending medicinal
substances in plants in a way which pharmaceutical chemists cannot
equal. Every homoeopath knows that plain China bark, which contains
about twenty medicinal substances is infinitely better than pure
quinine, that plain Opium is far superior to its extractive Morphia,
that Digitalis leaves are far more valuable than any of the most
scientific preparations made from them.
Garlic is a most potent internal disinfectant, a food
disinfectant not a chemical disinfectant, which disinfects not merely
the alimentary tract, but the whole body. If garlic is rubbed on the
sole of the foot, it becomes noticeable after a few minutes in the
breath. I have given footbaths with garlic in them to consumptives
with excellent results. It is considered an invaluable germicide. It
destroys threadworms and other worms in the intestines, as I have
also
proved in a considerable number of cases. It if of value in disorders
of the stomach, constipation, colitis, colic, and in Germany it is
very frequently given, and apparently with success, in cases of
arterio-sclerosis. A food remedy which has been employed continuously
for thousands of years by civilized nations cannot be treated as
negligible. In the case of diarrhoeas garlic has been used with
excellent results, even when the diarrhoeas were due to typhoid,
cholera, and other serious conditions. We have been told that garlic
is largely responsible for the extreme age and extraordinary strength
found among the Turks and other Mediterranean nations. Applied
outwardly garlic is of value in many cases of inflammation,
especially
inflammation of the joints, through gout, arthritis, and so forth. It
activates the growth of the hair. If it were without odour everyone
would eat garlic every day.
Garlic is most easily taken cut up small in milk, or boiled in
milk, but the question is whether the curative substances are not
damaged by the boiling. The same objection may be made to the
extraction with alcohol. Dr. Madaus & Co., have prepared garlic oil,
which is extracted without heat, and which is sold in capsules which
dissolve in the alimentary tract. They are tasteless and apparently
do
not produce an offensive odour from those who take them. I think
doctors will be wise in experimenting wit garlic oil. I have received
a sample from the Curative Food Company, 14/15 Leinster Street, W. 2,
who distribute the Madaus production.
A disease, in my opinion, how prejudicial so ever it may be to
the body, is not more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw off
the morbific matter and thus recover the patient. - THOMAS SYDENHAM,
M.D., On Gout.
© 2002 Hompath, Bombay, India
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