An excellent stimulant, carminative, and expectorant

Garlic is one of the oldest-known medicinal plants. Ayurvedic practitioners prescribed garlic liberally for cancer and leprosy.

PROPERT IES
Garlic is an excellent stimulant, carminative, and expectorant. The juice is disinfectant, rejuvenative, and antispasmodic. Garlic has a rejuvenating effect on all tissues and systems.

Part of Plant Used
The bulb.

Conditions Treated
Garlic has been used to treat a broad spectrum of ailments, including colds, skin disease, parasites, joint problems and arthritis, cysts and growths, and fluid retention. Like onion, garlic helps eliminate lead and other heavy metals from the body. It is beneficial to diabetics and cancer patients.

Form Taken
Garlic cloves can be chewed, cooked, powdered, taken as a tea, decoction, infusion, in food, and as an infused oil.

Used with Other Herbs?
Ginger, black pepper, cumin, coriander, eucalyptus.

HOW TO USE
• Garlic reduces kapha and vátha, and increases pitta.
• Its stimulating effect aids digestion.
• Garlic juice has been used to treat infected wounds and amebic dysentery.
• Garlic may be used as a natural antibiotic.

CAUTION
• Nursing mothers beware: garlic in your breast milk may cause colic in your infant.
• Some people have allergies to garlic and may develop a skin rash. If one appears, discontinue garlic use.
• Consult a physician before consuming large quantities of garlic for medicinal purposes.