Healing traditions have recognized garlic as a natural "wonder drug" for thousands of years. Now medical research indicates that garlic may prevent & even reverse a host of serious health problems. This comprehensive handbook describes exactly how to use garlic as a versatile, powerful, & effective medicine for a tremendous variety of common illnesses. The simple treatments described in this book can help you: prevent cancer; lower your cholesterol level; reverse high blood pressure; boost your immune system; overcome fatigue; resist colds & flus; & prepare healing garlic oil, ear drops, poultices, syrups, ointments, & other garlic treatments.
An excellent and comprehensive primer on a food plant that has wide-ranging medicinal properties. As a garlic aficionado and grower for many years, I still learned a lot from this book about its health benefits, both preventative and curative, and how to use it medicinally. It shares many of these qualities with other alliums, like leeks. Knowing how to use this plant for one's health and nourishment, enriches one's life. Paul Bergner has aptly described its healing powers for specific diseases and its worldwide use in folk medicine.