was so popular in the Middle Ages thanks to the preventive properties that in folklore practically of each country it was represented as means for fight with not life and evil spirit. In those days, when the medicine was underdeveloped, and quality drugs were almost not, garlic was the only hope of most of people for healthy life.
Garlic can be found in a kitchen garden of each gardener respecting himself. Plant garlic at the end of March beginning of April, and reap a crop in the fall, as a rule, in October. When leaves dry up, garlic heads connect with leaves in bunches and suspend for drying. In garlic there are vitamins A, In and With, is well-cared, enzymes, allitsin and antibacterial hormones.
Curative properties of garlic favorably influence a stomach and intestines therefore long since garlic is considered great seasoning. Many are confused, however, by a smell from garlic. It is possible to avoid an unpleasant smell, having reduced amount of garlic in food to a minimum. For this purpose grate small teeth of garlic and in small doses add to food. Dishes from it not only will be better acquired, but also will develop a refined taste. In Greece and in the Balkans it is accepted to rub toasts and toasts with a garlic half before cooking from them sandwiches. It is good to add garlic and to salads. For a start you can rub with a half of a zubk of a wall and a bowl bottom, put in it salad and carefully try whether it is necessary to add a little more garlic. Soups, vegetables, sauces of all types and especially meat and fish can be seasoned with garlic - and for health it is useful, and it is tasty!
Garlic is excellent homeopathic remedy and is applied at chronic bronchitis, digestion violations, at rheumatism, muscular and articulate pains. Regular consumption of garlic slows down aging processes. People with an excess weight and appetite who eat too much often have short wind or asthma. Consumption of garlic will balance a metabolism and will reduce unpleasant feelings. Also garlic is applied at indigestions and spasms. Also garlic has carminative properties and also promotes office of bile. Still garlic has the vasodilating and calming effect. Vessels of legs, vessels of a retina and brain, extending, feed bodies better and prevent too fast aging. Garlic reduces cholesterol level in blood and slows down subsidence krasnykhkrovyanykh cages. Therefore garlic should be considered not as specific medicine against any certain disease and as the all-strengthening means at decrease in working capacity, useful to prevention of aging of the vascular system, at dysfunction of digestive tract, at sleep disorders and increase in blood pressure.
In the people some recipes from garlic are popular:
- Garlic juice. It is necessary to pound or pound and mix with eight teaspoons of sugar five or six large Zubkov of garlic. Then, having added water, bring it to boiling, let's infuse about five minutes and filter through a linen rag. Liquid should be drunk on a spoon during the day. Such juice well helps at bronchitis and whooping cough.
- Garlic soup. Cut six large Zubkov some garlic on very thin slices and roast on olive oil to transparency. Then fill in with three quarters of meat broth and boil. After that remove a pan from fire and pour in two shaken-up egg whites in soup. Shake up yolks separately with two tablespoons of apple or wine cider vinegar and pour in them in soup. Shortly before giving on a table add pepper, salt and fresh greens of a basil or fennel, a thyme or a beakchervil. To soup give fried toasts from black bread.
Garlic has no side effects except an unpleasant smell and is contraindicated to nobody. So use it on health.