Garlic

Garlic is the oldest known broad-spectrum antibiotic known to man. As with most natural medicines it is best in its natural form. This means eating a few cloves of raw garlic. Cloves are the little parts you pull off a whole bulb, all those little sections. If you can't just munch on a few cloves a day, you can still keep garlic in your daily diet. Garlic is used in so many delicious dishes like spaghetti sauce and pizza or you can just add finely chopped garlic to your salads.

Besides reducing and possibly preventing cold symptoms, garlic -- especially young garlic -- contains a strongly antiseptic oil called allyl disulfate. This oil inhibits the growth of bacteria. Garlic is being used in the treatment of lung ailments, to equalize blood pressure; to fight parasites and infections.

Immune System. Two fresh garlic cloves a day strengthens the immune system.

Ahem, you were thinking of garlic and the vampire myth, well here's the scoop on that: There is a logical explanation for the widespread use of garlic as a vampire repellent. Plague was frequently carried by flies and it was found that certain farms having garlic hung about were spared from the plague. Garlic bulbs exude drops of moisture that flies detest and garlic when eaten is a natural antiseptic, a blood purifier. Hence garlic would deter anything that flies or drinks blood.

Good health to you,
Sakara
(Garlic bread, anyone?)

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