Garlic: Man's Best Friend in a Toxic World

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Garlic has been known for centuries to function as a natural antibiotic.

It destroys the unnecessary and harmful bacteria throughout the human

system. It emulsifies cholesterol and loosens it from arterial walls. It

is effective in arresting intestinal putrefaction; it is used against

contagious diseases, high blood pressure, fevers, parasites, worms,

nicotine poisoning, colic, and yeast infections. (Concern, April 1977,

p. 7)

 

The brilliant Dr. Edward Shook, herbalist, pharmacist and one of our

illustrious teachers, began his lectures on garlic with the phrase of

the Gentle Shepherd, " Consider the Lilies. . . " Garlic is a member of

the Liliaceae family which also includes the onion. This is Dr. Shook's

botanical description of garlic:

 

Allium Sativum. Natural order. Liliaceae.

 

Common Names Garlic, poor man's treacle.

 

Part used. Bulb.

 

Description. The leaves are long, narrow, and much like grass.

 

The bulb (the only part used) is compound, consisting of numerous

bulblets, commonly called " cloves, " grouped together between the

membrane scales, and enclosed within a whitish skin which holds them as

in a sac. The whitish flowers are located at the end of stalks growing

directly out of the bulb. They are grouped together in globular umbels

with spathes surrounding them.

 

It will pay us handsomely to consider this lily because it is one of

nature's great masterpieces as a safe and certain remedy for many of

man's serious and devastating diseases.

 

This wonderful herb has been used from very ancient times both as food

and medicine.

 

Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher (born 372 BC) relates that garlic

was placed by the ancient Greeks on piles of stone at the crossroads as

a feast for Hecate (literally a feast for the gods.)

 

Virgil, the Roman poet (70 BC) in his eclogues states that garlic was

part of the entertainment served by Nestor to his guest Machaon. He also

tells us that it was owing to the virtues of garlic that Ulysses owed

his escape from being changed by Circe into a pig like each of his

companions.

 

Galen speaks very highly of it, eulogizing it as the " theriac " or " heal

all. "

 

Chaucer calls it " theriac " as do several old English botanists and

herbalists.

 

Pliny gives an exceedingly long list of complaints in which it was

considered beneficial.

 

The name garlic is of very ancient Anglo-Saxon origin being derived from

gar (a spear) and lac (a plant) in reference to the shape of its leaves.

It is one of the oldest medicinal remedies known to man, which has been

cultivated and used from time immemorial in the treatment of many

diseases. Both its romantic history and its very remarkable curative

virtues are vastly interesting and educational to all earnest and honest

physicians, and it is notable that it stands out today as one of our

greatest and most important therapeutic agents.

 

It is alterative, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, antispasmodic,

antiasthmatic, stimulant, antiseptic, disinfectant, tonic, nervine,

antiphthisic, germicide, and vermicide. Chemical Constituents: Volatile

oil (25 percent), mucilage (35 percent), albumen, sugar, starch, fibrin,

and 50 percent water. The oil is a rather complex substance, of a

strong, intensely penetrating odor and consists of allyl compounds of

sulfur. It will be seen that this remarkable herb is heavily laden with

organic sulfur, but no oxygen is found in the oil. Yet, it is the action

of oxygen when the skin is taken off the cloves that releases the sulfur

by combining with an allyl group to form allyloxide, which is also a

pungent liquid having a sulfur odor.

 

Many marvelous effects and healing powers have been claimed for garlic.

It is probable that none of them were exaggerated. I, myself, have seen

it cure tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, several skin diseases, stomach

ulcers, leg ulcers, athletes foot, furunculosis, abscesses, epilepsy,

and special affinity for the respiratory tract, lungs, bronchi, and so

forth, though it diffuses itself through the whole system and wherever

there is pus, it is a certain and safe remedy. The use of garlic in the

World War as an antiseptic was most sensational. In 1916, the British

government asked for tons of the bulbs offering one shilling a pound for

as much as could be produced. A great quantity of it was used for the

control of suppuration in wounds. The raw juice was expressed, diluted

with water, and put on swabs of sterilized sphagnum moss which was

applied to the wounds. Where this treatment was given, it has been

proved that there has never been one single case of sepsis of septic

results. Consequently, the lives of tens of thousands have been saved by

this one miraculous herb. That was nearly many years ago, and still we

do not find garlic as an official remedy in the United States

Pharmacopeia. This is one of the most disgraceful facts connected with

the so-called regular practice of medicine, and proves beyond all doubt

that their practice is neither ethical, moral, or even humane;

otherwise, such a miracle of healing power would never have been

discarded as it was.

 

In olden days, garlic was employed as a specific for leprosy, psoriasis

and several forms of exanthematous skin diseases. It was also believed

to have most beneficial results in smallpox applied to the soles of the

feet in a linen cloth renewed daily.

 

Those unacquainted with garlic might think this was merely superstition;

but, as a matter of fact, it is quite true. If chopped or minced fresh

garlic is placed on the soles of the feet and allowed to remain there

for some time, it will not be long before the odor of garlic can be

detected on the breath; and cases of purulent disease in different parts

of the body have been reported completely cured by simply keeping an

application of garlic to the soles of the feet, and renewing it once or

twice a day.

 

We positively know that organic sulfur is a universal antiseptic,

whether taken internally or applied outwardly to any part of the body.

It has been authoritatively reported that tuberculosis has been

successfully treated by inhalation of the freshly expressed juice of

garlic, diluted with equal quantities of water.

 

Garlic was the principal ingredient in the famous Four Thieves Vinegar

which was adapted so successfully at Marseilles for protection against

the plague when it prevailed there in 1772. This originated, it is said,

with four thieves who confessed that, while protected by the liberal use

of aromatic garlic vinegar during the plague, they plundered the dead

bodies of the victims with complete safety. It is stated that during an

outbreak of infectious fever in certain poor quarters of London early in

the last century, the French priests who constantly used garlic in all

their dishes visited the very worst cases with impunity, while the

English clergy caught the infection, and in many instances, fell victims

to the disease. Another instance of the remarkable penetrating power of

garlic is the fact that the expressed juice of fresh garlic mixed with

olive oil and rubbed on the chest, throat, and between the shoulder

blades gives great relief in whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis and

dyspnea, according to an English physician who has used it with success

for many years. It also has a reputation for safely reducing high blood

pressure, and in this relation we have an exceedingly valuable formula.

 

Boiling garlic reduces its active virtues considerably. Vinegar and

water both extract its curative principles, though vinegar alone seems

to be more effective for that purpose. Expressed fresh juice of garlic

contains all of its many virtues. The following priceless formulas will

cover its therapeutic applications completely for asthma, bronchitis,

catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, phthisis, tuberculosis,

coughs, dyspnea, heart weakness, internal ulcerations, and so forth.

 

 

Garlic Syrup

 

Peel 1 pound of fresh garlic, then chop or mince. Put into a wide

mouthed jar and add equal parts of vinegar and distilled water to just

cover the garlic. Close tightly, shake well, then let stand in a cool

place for four days, thoroughly shaking once or twice a day. Now, add

one pint of glycerine, shake well, and let stand another day. Strain

with pressure, then filter liquid through a muslin or linen cloth. Add

three pounds of pure honey, and stir till thoroughly blended. Put into

jars, seal tightly, and store in a cool place.

 

In order to cover the pungent odor of the garlic, in case it is

objectionable, do the following:

 

In place of macerating the garlic in equal parts of vinegar and

distilled water, as directed above, use 1 quart of vinegar in which 3

ounces of powdered caraway seed and 3 ounces of sweet fennel seed have

been slowly boiled for 15 minutes, while closely covered. Strain and

when cold, add 1 pint of glycerine. Use this in the above formula

instead of the vinegar and distilled water mixture.

 

This is much more acceptable to those who have an antipathy to the smell

and taste of garlic. Of course, the 3 pounds of honey are also added

after the filtering process. The deviation in no way affects the

curative properties of the garlic, while it helps materially to disperse

gas and flatus. We use aromatic vinegar in our own preparation of this

formula, which is one of the most meritorious and useful remedies to

have on hand. It is harmless, and very effective in the above mentioned

cases, and will please and astonish both you and the patient.

 

Dose: For asthma and coughs: 1 teaspoonful with or without water every

15 minutes until spasm is controlled; then 1 teaspoonful every 2 or 3

hours for the rest of the day. After that, 1 teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a

day is usually sufficient.

 

For tuberculosis, cardiac asthma and dyspnea: 1 dessertspoonful to a

tablespoonful 3 or 4 times a day between meals.

 

Children: (8 to 15 years) one half of the above dose; (5 to 8 years) one

quarter dose; (1 to 4 years) one eighth in a little water or honey

 

Garlic has also been used successfully in dropsy. The above formula may

be used with benefit, but the following will be found to be much more

prompt and effective, especially where the heart is much involved.

 

 

Dropsy with Heart Involvement.

 

Boil 8 ounces lily of the valley root (cut) (Convallaria majalis) in 3

pints of distilled water for 20 minutes. Strain then boil slowly till

reduced to 1 pint. Set aside to cool, and while still warm, add 8 ounces

of expressed garlic juice, 8 ounces of brown cane sugar, and 1 pint of

glycerine. When cold, bottle and keep in a coot place.

 

This is one of the most potent remedies for dropsy and heart disease

ever devised.

 

Dose: 1 teaspoonful to a dessertspoonful in water, as required. The dose

should be regulated and given every 3 hours to bring about diuresis.

Also, a slowing of the heart action, and an increase in the tone of its

contraction. After this effect has been produced, administer 1

teaspoonful in water 3 or 4 times a day.

 

Garlic for outward application: For eczema, pityriasis, psoriasis,

ulcers, cancers, swollen glands, tubercular joints, necrosis and all

purulent conditions that are accessible, we recommend the following

formula:

 

These garlic formulas we have given you are priceless. It will pay you

to study them, and utilize them with confidence whenever occasion

arises. "

 

--(Shook, 1978; reprint. pp. 69-73)

 

Dioscorides, a second century physician and herbalist who traveled with

the army of Alexander the Great, has the following to say on the subject

of garlic. Dioscorides was translated into middle English by a scholar

of the middle ages:

 

SKORODON Allium Sativum

 

LEUKOSKORODON Allium Ampeloprasum

 

OPHIOSKORODON Allium Scorodoprasum

 

ELAPHOSKORODON Allium subhirsutum

 

 

Garlic

 

Garluk (some call it Geboscome againe Elaphoboscum, the Latins Allium)

some of it is Satiue & growes in gardens & this in Egypt, being only but

of one head as the teeke, sweet, inclining to a purple colour. But

elsewhere, it is compacted of many white cloues, the cloues that therein

(the Greeks) call Aglithai. But there is another wilde kinde, called

Ophioscorodon. (that is Serpent's Garlick). It hath a sharp, warning

biting quanitie, expelling of flatulencies, and disturbing of the belly,

and drying of the stomach causing of thirst & puffing vp, breeding of

boyies in ye outsyde of the body, dulling the sight of the eyes. And the

same thinges don also, (as we should say, Hart's garlick). Being eaten,

it driues out the broade wormes, and drawes away the vrine. It is good,

as none other thing, for such as are bitten of vipers, or of the

Haemorrhous, who being taken presently after, or else that being beaten

small in wine & soe dranek. It is applyed also by ye way of Cataplasme

both for the same purposes profitably, as also layd on upon such as are

bitten of mad dogge. Being eaten, it is good against the chaunge of

waters (fauces expediende, easdeings asperas leniendo.) It doth cleare

the arteries & being eaten either raw or sod, it doth assuage old

coughes. Being dranck with decoction of Origanum, it cloth kill lice and

nitts. But being burnt, and tempered with bony it cloth cure the

sugillationes oculorum, and Alopeciae being anointed on, but for the

Alopeciae (it must be applyed) with vnguentum Nardinum. And with salt &

oyle it cloth heale ye eruptiones papularum. It doth take away also the

Vitiligines, & the Lichenes, & the Lentigenes, and the running ulcers of

the head, and the Furfures & ye Lepras, with hony. Being sod with Taeda

and Franckincense, & kept in the mouth it doth assuage the paine of ye

teeth. And with figge leaues & Cummin it is a Cataplasme for such as are

bitten of the Mygale. But the leafes decoction is an insession that

brings downe the Menstrua & the Secondas. It is also taken by way of

suffumigation for ye same purpose. But the stamping that is made of it

and ye black olive together, called Myrton, cloth moue the vrine & open

ye mouths of ye veins & it is good also for the Hydropicall. "

 

(Dioscorides, Book 11, pp. 188-91, under the heading of " Sharp Herbs. " )

 

Let's go into some interesting historical facts on garlic, a most

revered patriarchal herb:

 

" Garlic, a cousin of the lily originated in Central Asia or India, where

the early peoples enjoyed eating raw garlic as an enhancement to their

meals. They also enjoyed longevity, and the lowest incidence of cancer

on the planet. " (Messegue, 1979, p. 132)

 

The builders of the pyramids of Egypt were paid in the coin of the

realm; onions and garlic, a valuable commodity.

 

These builders of the pyramids of Cheops, a Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh,

consumed great quantities of garlic. It was during these times that

garlic was elevated to the rank of a deity.

 

The Ebers Papyrus, 1500 BC, one of the earliest herbal pharmacological

documents we know, mentions garlic used in external applications for

wounds.

 

Here is a quotation from the Bible:

 

" We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt for Nought, the

cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the

garlic. " (Numbers 11:5)

 

According to Helen Noyes Webster, who interpreted the above quotation in

her book, Herbs, How to Grow Them and How to Use Them, the Israelites

traveling with Moses obviously missed the garlic when they went toward

the Promised Land. If Moses had carried garlic, the Israelites may have

been able to avoid intestinal putrefaction from eating the desert's

available lizards and snakes.

 

Homer mentions garlic in his famous Odyssey. The deity Mercury, or

Hermes, gave garlic to Odysseus as a protection against the goddess

Circe's evil sorcery in which she turned men to swine. The athletes of

the original Olympic games in ancient Greece traditionally chewed a

clove of garlic before participating in the games. Galen, an early Greek

doctor, spoke of garlic as the panacea of the common man. Hippocrates

prescribed the eating of garlic for uterine tumors. The Vikings and the

Phoenicians always carried garlic on their ocean voyages.

 

The crusaders brought garlic back to France. (In those days, it was a

common law that two men's lives could be sacrificed in order to save a

100 lb. sack of peppercorns.)

 

A French herbalist, Messegue, born in Gascony, France, states that all

the children born in that province are baptized with a clove of garlic

on the lips. The emperor Charlemagne recommended that his subjects

cultivate garlic. King Henry IV of France was baptized with a clove of

garlic on his lips, and although he was said to have chewed a clove of

raw garlic every morning upon arising, he was still very popular with

the ladies.

 

The National Cancer Institute central files show that the incidence of

cancer is extremely low in France where garlic consumption is the

greatest and that garlic eaters in Bulgaria do not have cancer. It is

reported in a textbook on pharmacognosy that a physician in British

Columbia has successfully treated malignant situations by prescribing

the eating of garlic.

 

The prophet Mohammed recommend that garlic be applied externally on the

sting of the scorpion or the bite of the viper in the 7th century.

 

" The herb becomes the teacher. Men stray after false goals while the

herb he treads (or in these days, stomps upon) knows much much more. "

 

The above quote was written by Henry Vaughn, the early 17th century poet

and mystic, as well as Hermetic philosopher during the days when the

Doctrine of Signatures was popular. The Doctrine of Signatures was the

method by which the ancients recognized the usage of a plant. According

to Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century English Physician and Herbalist,

" and by the icon or image of every herb, man first found out their

virtues. Modern writers laugh at them for it, but I wonder in my heart

how the virtues of herbs first came to be known, if not by their

signatures. The moderns have then from the writings of the ancients--the

ancients had no writings to have them from. "

 

The 17th century " moderns " felt that garlic, with its hollow stalk,

helps afflictions of the windpipe. We know this to be a truth; that

garlic is an antihistamine, and has been successfully used in bronchial

and pulmonary disorders. As we examine some of the virtues of garlic, we

find that the claims of the old Doctrine of Signatures will be far

surpassed.

 

The National Dispensatory of 1887 gives us a fine description of the

constituents of garlic at a period in our medical history when Syrupus

Alli was an official U.S. preparation.

 

Constituents.--Besides the cellular tissue, garlic contains between 50

and 60 percent of water, 35 percent of mucilage some albumen, sugar,

starch, and about 1 percent of volatile oil, to which its odor and taste

are due. In its crude state, oil of garlic is of a dark brown-yellow

color, heavier than water, of a very interesting taste, and consists of

oxide and sulphides of allyl. The rectified oil consists mainly of the

sulphide, (C3H5) 2S, is colorless, lighter than water and may be

obtained artificially by treating an alcoholic solution of potassium

sulphide with allyl iodide. It dissolves easily in alcohol and ether,

and sparingly in water ... Garlic, macerated in water or vinegar, yields

its virtues to these liquids.--(p. 154)

 

They also describe its physiological action and medicinal uses:

 

Physiological action and Medical Uses--Garlic as well as leek and onion,

is a stimulant to the part to which it is directly applied and to be the

whole system. Its odorous element may be perceived on the breath and its

taste in the mouth when the bruised bulb has been applied to the skin.

When eaten raw, its odor " hales from many parts of the body, and, given

to nursing women, it taints their milk, so that their infants refuse the

breast. It reddens the skin, and may even vesicate it. Internally, it

stimulates the digestive organs, and is everywhere used, but principally

in southern countries, as a condiment for various kinds of food. The

odor or garlic is popularly employed to revive persons from a swoon or

from hysterical insensibility. It is a vermifuge not to be neglected in

the treatment of lumbricoid worms when given by the mouth, and for

destroying ascarides when administered by the rectum. Many cases of

dropsy, particularly of anasarea produced by cold, have been cured by a

diet of bread and raw onions. This regimen will sometimes produce

copious diuresis. Onions boiled in milk have been used successfully for

a like purpose. Bruised cloves of garlic and poultices of boiled onion

are admirable remedies for chronic bronchitis in children. They should

be applied over the whole front of the chest. Internally, garlic is a

very useful agent in the same affection. It is also a domestic remedy

for whooping cough. Onion poultices are particularly applicable to

abscesses; the core of a roasted onion relieves earache when introduced

into the auditory canal. Onion and garlic cataplasms applied to the

perineum relieve strangury. The dose of bruised or chopped garlic or of

the expressed juice is about 30 grains (Gm 2). (p.154-155)

 

Frances Ward published this summary of garlic in her post-World War II

book, British Herbs:

 

" GARLIC Allium Sativum, Amaryllidaceae

 

Anyone who travels in Italian buses might be forgiven for deciding never

to grow this unpleasant smelling plant, and one can quite appreciate the

decision of the old Greeks that people who ate Garlic should not be

allowed in the temples of Cybele.

 

But from early times it has been considered a very useful medicine, and

in the Middle Ages in Britain it was believed to be, either by itself by

itself, as a 'simple', or mixed with other herbs, one of the cures for

leprosy. Lepers were often called 'pilgarlics', as they were made to

peel their own garlic, certainly a mark of identity and a means of

segregation!

 

Throughout the ages it was held to have antiseptic properties, and

during the 1914-18 War, sterilized Sphagnum Moss soaked in Garlic juice

was used for suppurating wounds, a reminder of the old method of

treating leprous sores. From time to time, even in modern days, Garlic

has been claimed to have marvelous properties; now, in addition to its

stimulating powers, it is held to be beneficial in digestive complaints

and for coughs, colds and asthma.

 

Cultivation of Garlic is a fairly easy matter, though it needs a finely

sifted soil similar to that of an onion-bed. The cloves should be set

about 2 in. in the ground about February or March, and lightly covered

with soil. The bulbs may usually be lifted during August. There is

generally a demand for Garlic from druggists, and good prices have been

paid for it. " (Ward, 1949, p. 159).

 

It in the medical literature we find several references to garlic as a

therapeutic agent.

 

Phytocides of garlic suppress the proteinases (cathepsin) in malignant

tumors of humans (postoperative material) and of experimental animals.

These phytocides also inhibit cathepsin in the liver of cancerous

animals, the activity of which increases during malignant growth. This

action was detected by adding garlic extract to inoculated Ehrlich

carcinoma. The results may be useful in further studies on garlic in the

diet of cancer patients. " (p. 140)

 

Joseph A. Di Paolo and Christopher Carruthers of the Roswell Park

Memorial Institute of Buffalo, New York, wrote an article in Cancer

Research, 1960. The title is, " The effect of Allicin From Garlic on

Tumor Growth. " By the way, Allicin is responsible for the odor in

garlic, so the new odorless garlic isn't quite as effective as regular

garlic. For those fortunate souls who can ingest raw garlic; the garlic

breath can be obliterated by chewing on a raw clove (not a garlic clove,

but the spice clove), or putting a drop of peppermint of spearmint oil

on the tongue.

 

Chester J. Cavallito and John Hays Bailey writing in the Journal of the

Chemical Society, Volume 66, November, 1944, discuss the antibacterial

principle of garlic, allicin. They isolated allicin, a colorless oil,

from garlic cloves and found it to be effective against the following

bacteria strains both gram positive and gram negative:

 

Organism

 

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

 

STREPTOCOCCUS HEMOLYTICUS

 

STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS

 

B. SUBTILIS

 

B. TYPHOSUS

 

B. PARATHYPHOSUS A

 

B. PARATHYPHOSUS B

 

B. PARATYPHOSUS KUNZENDORF

 

B. MORGANI

 

B. ENTERIDITIS

 

B. TYPHI-MURIUM

 

B. DYSENTERIAE SHIGA

 

B. DYSENTERIAE FLEXNER

 

B. DYSENTERIAE SONNE

 

V. CHOLERAE

 

(P. 1951)

 

H. Dold and A. Knapp, German Researchers writing in Chemotherapy section

of Biological Abstracts in the 1950's discovered that garlic was

effective against Streptococci, Escherichia coli, Bacillius prdigiosis,

B. proteus, B. Subtilis, Shigelia paradysenteriae Flexner, Eberthelia

typhosa, Salmonella enteritidis and Vibrio cholerae. It was more

effective when crushed than sliced. It in addition, garlic exhibited

some bacterial action even through the air. Bacteria could not be made

resistant to the garlic either. The antibacterial action of garlic juice

became somewhat weaker after having been stored in the ice box for 8

days and after boiling for 10 minutes. Remember, too, that when garlic

is cooked above 130 degrees F., the enzymes in it are destroyed, and the

organic sulphur in the garlic now becomes a harmful form of inorganic

sulphur.

 

A most unique article appeared in the Chinese Medical Journal in May of

1977;

 

" GARLIC SLICE IT IN REPAIRING EARDRUM PERFORATION "

 

by Hsu Wei-cheng

 

Teaching Research Group of Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Inner

Mongolia Medical College, Huhehot

 

" Clinical use of fresh garlic was satisfactory in repairing eardrum

perforations in 18 cases (1 having perforation in both ears) except 1

with irreversible chronic otitis media. The time required for healing by

this method was 16 days in 12 cases with perforations smaller than half

of the eardrum pars tensa and 28 days in 6 cases with perforations

larger than half of it. 10-19 db hearing was gained after treatment.

 

Of the 18 cases, 6 had increased exudate in the middle ear during the

latter part of the garlic treatment. Exudation stopped quickly after

treatment was discontinued and anti-inflammatory measures were taken. It

in 4 of these, healing took place soon after exudation was checked and

in 2 it was necessary to repeat garlic application before the wound

healed completely...

 

This method is indicated in adult's traumatic eardrum perforations

within 3 weeks of injury provided there is no infection, perforation is

not larger than half of the pars tensa and there is sufficient eardrum

left around the perforation edges. It in cases where the duration of

perforation is over one month and its edges have already become

cicatrized, repairing with fresh garlic slice can only be started after

50% trichloro-acetic-acid has been used to cauterize the edge (repeat

the cauterization every few days, if necessary), until the formation of

whitish ring (0.1-0.2 mm width) and reddish granulation.

 

Prepare a fresh clove of garlic carefully, peel it but leave the

transparent epithelium-layer tightly attached. The external auditory

canal is sterilized routinely. Slice off a very thin piece of the garlic

clove (about 0.2 mm thick) shaping it just large enough to cover the

perforation. Keep the epithelium-layer attached to the garlic slice and

insert it into the ear canal and carefully push it against the eardrum

so that its cut surface hugs the peroration while the epithelial layer

covered surface faces the external auditory meatus. Pack the external

auditory meatus with an alcohol moistened cotton ball. Forceful blowing

of the nose is prohibited and water should not be allowed into the ear

canal in order to prevent infection. Usually the garlic slice should be

replaced once or twice a week until healing is complete. Stop treatment

when the middle ear becomes inflamed with excessive exudate and start

anti-inflammatory treatment.

 

Garlic is a strong stimulant which hastens growth of new granulation,

contains allin (C6H11O3NS) which rapidly breaks down to yield the

antibiotic allicin (C6H10OS2) in the presence of enzyme allinase and

water. " (Chinese Med. Journal, 3 (3); pp. 204-205).

 

" With garlic, the patient himself is doctor, pharmacologist, nurse, and

pharmaceutical manufacturer all in one. "

 

--Yoshio Kato

 

Yoshio Kato of the Oyama Garlic Laboratory in Japan has written a very

comprehensive booklet entitled, Garlic, The Unknown Miracle Worker. It

in it he describes a unique process of garlic juice therapy known as

FLOW-LEBEN. in his own words:

 

" FLOW-LEBEN is a total therapy system of medical application,

particularly the external application of garlic. Application for the

patents has been made in ten countries. Already the patents have been

granted in four countries. (The Republic of China, Italy, France,

Germany and the United Kingdom.)

 

It is very well known that garlic contains all the elements except

Vitamin D. It is also known that garlic essence warms the body and

promotes better circulation of the blood .... Aillin, an oily substance

contained in garlic, diluted as much as 200 times can kill typhoid

germs.

 

Another study reported that garlic juice diluted 30-40 times stops the

growth of certain types of bacteria in a nutrient media--garlic has

strong germicidal properties which are not found in other plants. When

aneurinase bacteria grow in the body, the majority of the internally

produced vitamin B1 is spoiled by this bacteria--garlic shows

antipyretic effects when it, diluted with water, is applied externally

to a person's body at times of high fever.

 

FLOW-LEBEN is the only system in the world by which we can obtain the

maximum effects from garlic. The first unit was completed in 1970. It in

this clinic, various concentrations of garlic-water solution are sprayed

on the bodies of patients by means of atmospheric pressure compressed

air (2 to 7 lbs.) shot through atomizing nozzles. Hydraulic pressure is

employed in the newer models. This process stimulates the body's

metabolism and removes cholesterol from the blood. Various functional

disorders are eliminated and skin diseases are also cured by the

germicidal effect of garlic. " (Kato, 1973, pp. 173-175)

 

The unique and very deluxe treatment has been effective in treatment of

ringworm, skin cancer, frostbite, and other skin disorders using a 100%

solution of garlic juice.

 

Richard Lucas in Nature's Medicines, published in 1966, presents the

history of the Four Thieves Vinegar:

 

" It in Marseilles, a garlic-vinegar preparation known as the Four

Thieves was credited with protecting many of the people when a plague

struck that city (1722). Some say that the preparation originated with

four thieves who confessed that they used it with complete protection

against the plague while they robbed the bodies of the dead. Others

claim that a man named Richard Forthave developed and sold the

preparation, and that the " medicine " was originally referred to as

Forthave's. However, with the passing of time, his surname became

corrupted to Four Thieves. " (Lucas, 1966, p. 3

 

We now have the modern version of the formula. It is known as the

anti-plague formula. It consists of fresh garlic, apple cider vinegar,

pure vegetable glycerine, U.S.P., honey, garlic juice, fresh comfrey

root, wormwood, lobelia, marshmallow root, oak bark, black walnut bark,

mullein, skullcap, and uva-ursi. We recommend that you have several

gallons of the preparation on hand in storage and hope that you will not

need it. But, at the time of writing this article, a radio broadcast

informed us of a case of Bubonic Plague with ensuing death in Lake

Tahoe, U.S.A. The medical authorities were trying to locate all of the

persons with whom the late subject came in contact in hopes of isolating

the infection so the general public would not become exposed to this

disease. The plague, related to the Black Plague in Europe during the

1300's, left people dead in their tracks and hanging out of windows

waving goodbye to their friends. According to Herman Hesse, a German

Writer, Goldmund was a young man who left a 14th century monastery and

became a vagabond. He enjoyed the merriment of the wanderer as he

traveled through Europe tasting the pleasures of love and life. All this

was to change as Hesse describes the character's feeling of

powerlessness and horror as he wanders throughout plague-stricken towns,

cities, and rural areas observing the Hand of Death had reached

everywhere; striking people regardless of their social standing or age.

He describes a grotesque scene in a farm cottage where an entire family

lay frozen after the throes of death.

 

 

Anti-Plague Formula

 

The best insurance in the world against the " predicted coming plagues "

and " killing diseases " is to have the body in a good healthy condition.

Disease germs are merely scavengers and can only live on toxins, mucus

and residue from junk foods. They cannot and will not be damage healthy

cell structure. Therein lies the key! Have a healthy, clean body and

disease germs will by-pass you--wanting nothing to do with your body,

because it would be " obnoxiously clean " (in their language) and no filth

for them to live on.

 

If the plague, or some other epidemic hits before you are in a good

healthy condition, it is good to have an aid for a fast cleaning.

 

While lecturing in Snowflake, Arizona one night, one of the group asked

if we had an anti-plague formula, and I was prompted to give them a

" certain combination " of herbs to use.

 

The people there were very impressed to go right to work and prepare

this liquid, having it read for use. We had told them that plagues come

at unexpected times and it could be tomorrow or maybe even years away,

but expect the unexpected and be ready now. If the formula was still

unused, from " no need " years later, we could all be happy but " TIS

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY " .

 

These good people made it up in gallon lots and had it on hand. Months

later while speaking in Tucson, Arizona, someone asked for the

" anti-plague remedy. " I was surprised and asked where they had heard of

it, as we had only given it out once. We were informed that a

plague-like condition or flu had hit the Snowflake area and when other

aids failed, this combination of herbs in liquid form performed its job

with amazing speed.

 

At our next series of lectures in Snowflake, some time later, we heard

one testimony after another about the many different types of ailments

that were given quick relief by using this formula. The formula has now

spread in many areas from coast to coast and is being used with good

results. A man picked us up at an airport on the west coast a short time

ago, and on the floor of his car was a bottle with liquid in it. When

asked what it was he said, " oh, that's your anti-plague remedy, we never

travel without it as it works good on about any sickness that comes up

while we are traveling. We are also never without a bottle of it at

home. "

 

Anti-Plague Formula is available in The Cold Sheet Treatment book.

 

Because of the wonders we have told you about in this article of the

greatness of garlic, it is easy to see how it fits in this formula. Drop

a culture of almost any known disease germ into " apple juice " or " apple

cider vinegar " an it will die immediately. The ingredients found in

" black walnut " are one of the few-known herbal-destroyers of fungus.

Marshmallow is the enemy of gangrene and peritonitis. It is a " softening

emollient " that will aid in removal of the inorganic deposits broken up

by the " solvent " gravel root. Wormwood relieves pain and kills pin-worms

and other unwanted parasites, etc. Oak bark tones and firms up the cells

in the muscles, cartilage, and flesh. It is also an aid in rebuilding

the circulatory system and feeding it. Scullcap is one of the finest

nerve repairing and rebuilding aids. It works especially well on the

spinal cord--the trunkline for health to the entire body. Comfrey is the

cell-proliferant that causes the good cells to multiply rapidly and push

out the waste and dead-cell structure, being supplied with the wonderful

allantoin. Lobelia is the Lord's great catalyst to combine the herbal

entities to a " smoothly-operating whole. "

 

Garlic is a handy herb that will grow right in your own yard, taking

very little space, but which should be in everybody's yard. Any time of

the year it is needed, one can go out and dig up the bulb. This can be

done in spring, summer, or fall, in an emergency, but the best harvest

time is autumn, when the leaves have died down. After shaking off the

dirt, the bulbs can be put into a mesh bag and hung in the shade where

the cool air can circulate through the bulbs.

 

The single buttons or cloves, that make up the bulb, can be planted in

the fall and by going through the winter will come up the following year

in the form of a bulb, with a number of cloves or buttons. When planted

in the spring, they will generally be just a larger button by fall and

not become a bulb. Some people will put the garlic buttons into the

refrigerator (not freezer) and keep cold for a few weeks, bring them out

into room temperature for several weeks, and repeat this process several

times. Thus, the garlic now believes it has gone through several winters

and it mature enough to develop from a clove into a bulb. Rather sneaky

we would say, but if it works, fine!

 

Garlic can be planted around rose bushes and other aphid infested plants

and the aphids will disappear. Gardeners have reported to us that they

plant garlic between the rows of cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., and the

garlic will discourage plant-destroying bugs, cut worms, etc. Here " you

can have your cake and eat it too " for you can get the value of

garden-assistance from this herb during the growing season, and then

thin them out in the fall to use as a food and a healing herb during the

winter.

 

The reason for garlic's miraculous type of healing is in its creation,

and this will be explained in more detail further along in this article.

Briefly now, this is what happens: The garlic clove contains a very high

amount of sulphur; sulphur is one of the best minerals to be used as an

oxygen carrier. Oxygen is the breath of life and sulphur will carry the

oxygen in the body directly to the infected area. Germs cannot live in a

good supply of oxygen, therefore, the infection is cleared quickly. This

is an organic wonder, so garlic may be termed 'a wonder herb'.

 

Medical science discovered that sulphur caused this rapid healing, so in

World War II, flowers of sulphur (an inorganic mined-mineral) was

substituted for the garlic. The army used sulfa for practically every

ailment from " falling hair to fallen arches. " Wonderful results were

reported to us and we were told to use it in ever increasing amounts.

 

The difference in he healings of the garlic and the inorganic, manmade

remedies is that garlic does its job and the excess of the organic

materials not being used in healing the infection is easily passed as

harmless vegetable fiber from the body. No harm and certainly nothing

but good could result from using this powerful, yet harmless, herb. But,

with the man-made sulfa drug we used, (this 'wonder drug' healing or the

infection), the inorganic flowers of sulphur remained in the body. This

inorganic mineral eventually combined with the urine and formed a

substance that cut up the urinary tract, causing bed wetters. Many

soldiers and other servicemen were given medical discharges, because of

" bed wetting " . This habit was acquired while in the service after the

use of sulfa drugs. It is a well-known fact that too much sulfa drug has

also caused other problems. The sulphur in the garlic will assist in

healing the urinary tract after its infection-clearing job, instead of

damaging it.

 

Following are various other uses of garlic. Many people have been helped

in ridding the body of worms by inserting a peeled button of garlic as

high as possible into the rectum. Do this just before retiring at night

and it will come out with the first bowel movement in the morning. (This

is also a fine aid in adjusting high blood pressure and low blood

pressure). Many mothers find it easier to insert the peeled button of

garlic (into the child's rectum) after the child is asleep at night.

 

Here is a very successful routine for removal of these unwanted growths

called moles, or warts. Take a button of garlic, slice or cut in two,

and placed the cup area over a wart of mole. Tape it on, and as it dries

out put a fresh piece. Many users have reported good results.

 

Massage painful joints and areas with Oil of Garlic, massage it

thoroughly. Massage in thoroughly oil of garlic a number of times a day

for rough hands.

 

To make oil of garlic place chopped or grated garlic in a bottle, glass

servicing dish or baking dish, (an inch or more of the garlic), and

cover with olive oil so that the oil is a half inch or so above the

garlic. Keep in a warm place or in the sun two to three days. Strain

with muslin or any good cotton material (no synthetics) and bottle the

oil. Keep in a cool place.

 

I remember one time we were called out to a house in the wee hours of

the morning. This call was to see a little boy, under the age of two

years, that had double pneumonia. The physician on the case had informed

the parents that nothing more could be done and he would come back in

the morning to sign the child's death certificate. Seeing as it was well

under forty degrees below zero and nearly fifty miles from ambulance

service, the parents were told that the boy, if taken by car to a

hospital, would surely die. These parents tried to get other doctors,

but at that time of night, and in such a remote area, no one would offer

help. A friend told them about us, then living in Evanston, Wyoming, and

to try to call us. Having been told of the boy's condition we went

expecting to give him the cold-sheet treatment. Upon arriving there we

found that the plumbing was frozen and there was not running water in

the house. We found enough in the toilet tank above the bowl to give the

little chap an enema. We were not able to give the cold sheet treatment

(no water) so only the garlic paste was made up and applied. This was

done after a complete massage of the body and the feet. After oiling the

feet up to the ankles, thoroughly, and massaging the olive oil in well,

a half-inch thickness of the garlic paste was applied to the soles of

his feet. (This is put on only the soles and not up onto the sides).

Then gauze was placed over to cover the paste, bandages to hold it into

place, and a loose white cotton sock was pulled over the bandages to

hold them securely.

 

Garlic paste is made by taking freshly peeled buttons of garlic and

garlic about half and half with Vaseline. This amount can vary,

according to the toughness of the feet, more Vaseline for tender feet,

less for thicker skin. Many of the health minded readers will be shocked

by our using a low-vibration ointment like Vaseline instead of using

anhydrous lanolin or some lighter more organic type. The reasoning for

this is that the lighter type ointments will penetrate more quickly into

the skin, but the Vaseline will hold the garlic on the ointment form.

This will also keep the garlic from blistering as easily. (A garlic

blister looks bad, but does not hurt and heals back quickly.) The little

boy was running an extremely high fever and was delirious when he was

covered and put back into bed. (This was well after 2:00 a.m.). We

assured the parents the child would be all right and would get well. A

few days later we were called again by these parents. They told us that

the doctor came back to sign the death certificate that next morning,

but the little boy was sitting in his high chair, drinking some juice

and breathing normally as if nothing had happened the night before. The

doctor became so angry and demanded to know the name of the other doctor

who had taken over the case before it had been released by him. He

wanted a hearing by " the board " to have the other doctor thrown out of

practice for going " against procedure " by taking over a case without

written release. The parents asked if his " release " was the death of

their child? He probably changed his mind because we were not brought

before a hearing.

 

I had forgotten this case until nearly twenty years had passed. One

evening, after a lecture in another state, a fine-looking young fellow

in his early twenties came up to the podium and shook my hand

vigorously, saying he had always wanted to meet me. His mother had told

him of our long trip in sub-zero weather at night to their house, of

using the natural methods on, and saving his life. He stated that he

enjoyed living so much he had been looking forward to meeting me.

 

That paid off for a cold night out on a house call by far more than the

small fee that was charged.

 

Used by permission. Dr. Christopher's Newsletters: Volume 2 Number 9

 

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