The benefits of garlic for the human body: all the pros and cons

In folk medicine, garlic is used to treat many diseases. Let's find out what benefits it brings, and how harmful it can be.

This product has been known since ancient times, and it has been used both as a food, as a seasoning, and for the treatment of various diseases. Especially often it is used by traditional healers. For five thousand years, people tried not to eat it, because of the unpleasant pungent smell. However, the beneficial properties of garlic still brought it to the fore. The benefits of garlic for the human body are simply invaluable. Let's find out what ailments garlic will help us fight, how the whole body is cleansed, and in what situations it can be harmful.

Useful material

Garlic belongs to the onion family. It contains more than ten nitrogenous compounds, such as:

According to researchers, garlic contains almost five hundred substances and components. It is they who help a person fight ailments. This product is mainly used:

• for the treatment of colds;
• strengthening immunity;
• as a natural antibiotic;
• to normalize high blood pressure;
• for a beneficial effect on the heart and blood vessels.

But few people know how to treat other diseases.

Given that garlic contains biologically active substances that produce hydrogen sulfide, then it can be said about it as a useful and harmful product. A large amount of sulfur is toxic to us, and in moderation it and hydrogen serve as antioxidants and improve blood circulation.

Scientists have proven that all substances and properties are preserved even in pickled garlic, so if you don’t like the smell and taste of a fresh product, you can replace it. In any case, it helps with such diseases:

We learn the effect of garlic on the body in each of these cases.

In the fight against disease

This is how beneficial substances fight various diseases.

This is only part of the diseases in which garlic will help.

We clean the body

Traditional medicine advises the use of garlic for a complete cleansing of the body. Moreover, cleaning the vessels has a beneficial effect on the health of all other human organs. Tinctures from this product, especially when lemon is added, relieve cholesterol well, prevent the formation of blood clots, and improve blood circulation. Therefore, tinctures are used for the prevention and even treatment of atherosclerosis, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Here is an effective recipe, complete cleaning of vessels is guaranteed.

1. We take about four hundred grams of garlic, peel, chop. Let stand fifteen minutes.
2. Pour the resulting mass with liquid honey in the amount of three hundred grams. Honey should be natural, preferably May.
3. Close the mixture in a jar and store in a dark place for a week. Garlic with honey should be infused.
4. Take the infusion three times a day before meals. The course lasts fifty days.

This is an effective cleansing and rejuvenation of the body. You can add lemon to enhance the effect.

The beneficial substances of garlic also help in cleansing the liver. Since the liver is our natural filter, it accumulates almost all the toxins that enter the body. A complete cleansing of the body is necessary.

It is no less useful to eat green feathers. They help to digest fats faster, being a choleretic agent. It is recommended to use lemon with garlic in salads and tinctures. Lemon is useful in that it also removes toxins from the body.

Cleansing the liver is carried out with young arrows of garlic. Substances contained in them, such as ascorbic acid, carotenoids, restore liver cells. Regular use of green shoots quickly and effectively cleanse the body of toxins, especially in season. Young garlic can be grown at home and eaten.

How to lose weight

Garlic helps even when you want to lose weight. Useful properties and enzymes normalize the metabolism, burn fats and subcutaneous tissue, which, in turn, leads to weight loss.

Food is processed correctly, the lack of vitamins is replenished, especially if a person is on a diet. The only harm is that enzymes cause appetite. But if you control it, then the product will only benefit. Lemon and garlic are especially useful in combination. A complete bowel cleansing is done.

Contraindications

Despite all its beneficial properties, garlic also has contraindications for the body. Do not think that the more you use it, the healthier you will be. Everything is good in moderation. All garlic medicines are taken in courses, at a certain dosage. Long-term use of garlic can be harmful:

• a pungent smell, but it is quickly eliminated if you eat a lemon;
• the smell can penetrate the body, and come from the whole body;
• the microflora in the intestine deteriorates;
• harms in diseases of the kidneys, liver, gastritis;
• toxic substance, harms the digestive system;
• chemical processes are disturbed;
• harms hemorrhoids;
• can cause an attack of epilepsy;
• toxic substance is prohibited for pregnant and lactating mothers;
• affects fetal brain development.

You should not take it and lemon with severe anemia, if there are stones in the gallbladder, kidneys. Before starting treatment with folk remedies, it is worth examining and not forgetting that its properties can be harmful in certain cases.

Dr. Robert Beck has proven that a large amount of garlic is harmful to the brain. From it may arise:

• Strong headache;
• the reaction is blunted;
• the person becomes distracted.

As a result: this product can be both useful and harmful to the body.

Dosage of garlic

During the day, it is recommended to eat no more than three cloves. If the product is crushed to add to culinary dishes, it is worth remembering that it becomes more useful fifteen minutes after cutting. The chemical reaction activates the therapeutic properties. You need to add to dishes at the very end so that the garlic does not undergo heat treatment.