Want to build your immunity? Eat garlic
Apr 12, 2005
MY niece, Mercy was recently operated for sinuses. Before we were discharged, I talked to a lady, who was nursing a severely burnt kid.
By Sarah Muwanga
MY niece, Mercy was recently operated for sinuses. Before we were discharged, I talked to a lady, who was nursing a severely burnt kid.
She advised that I feed Mercy on lots of garlic, in every meal. I was baffled because I didn’t see the connection between garlic and the child’s condition.
But I took her advice and also decided to gather as much information as possible on garlic.
However, there are those that buy garlic from pharmacies or drug stores. Suppliers sell these products as food supplements.
Dr. Kamatenesi, a medical ethno-botany lecturer at Makerere University says these drugs are not supplied or manufactured according to law.
Thus, in case of side effects after consumption, no one is to blame. Yet these so called food supplements are expensive.
According to Dr David Ssali, a consultant at Dama Medicinal Herbs Clinic, Mitchell Cotts, Kampala, many people have realised the use of garlic.
It is not justifiable for one to spend a lot on imported garlic drugs. You can make garlic medicine that will last using these preparations adopted from Action for Natural Medicine sources:
Garlic honey: Peel, chop the garlic cloves and fill them in a glass jar.
Add honey slowly till it fills the spaces between the doves.
Place the jar in a warm place of about 20ºC. Store for 24 hours.
During this period, honey absorbs garlic juice and garlic becomes lump and opaque.
Do not filter. This preparation is usable within three months.
Garlic cough mixture: Pound a teaspoonful of garlic cloves with a similar amount of sugar/honey. Use immediately.
Garlic oil: Place 200g of peeled and minced garlic in a wide mouthed jar. Add enough vegetable oil to cover.
Close the jar tightly and let it stand in a warm place of about 20ºC for three days. Shake it a few times every day. Don’t filter. Store in a cool place and use within a month.
Garlic tincture: Soak 200g of peeled and chopped garlic cloves in a litre of good alcohol (40-50%) for 14 days at about 20ºC in a bottle with an airtight lid. Shake the bottle many times a day. Strain out five days.
For malaria, chop garlic finely. Swallow one spoonful three times a day.
Do this for five days.
To treat coughs, colds, sinusitis and sore throats, eat garlic cloves three times a day or take a teaspoonful of garlic honey every few hours.
Children can take a teaspoonful of garlic cough mixture every few hours and adults, six times a day.
For coughs and flue, keep two cloves of garlic in the mouth, one on each side, and renew them frequently.
Those suffering from candida should take a tea spoon of garlic honey every few hours.
Keep in the mouth for as long as possible for typhoid fever, always add garlic to the usual treatment.
The same applies to bacillary, dysentery, cholera, dysentery, etc.
However, thrombosis, where blood clots in the blood vessels may arise especially for patients, who are confined to garlic that has gone bad.
Garlic should be used with caution because it might irritate the skin and irritate the eyes.
MY niece, Mercy was recently operated for sinuses. Before we were discharged, I talked to a lady, who was nursing a severely burnt kid.
She advised that I feed Mercy on lots of garlic, in every meal. I was baffled because I didn’t see the connection between garlic and the child’s condition.
But I took her advice and also decided to gather as much information as possible on garlic.
However, there are those that buy garlic from pharmacies or drug stores. Suppliers sell these products as food supplements.
Dr. Kamatenesi, a medical ethno-botany lecturer at Makerere University says these drugs are not supplied or manufactured according to law.
Thus, in case of side effects after consumption, no one is to blame. Yet these so called food supplements are expensive.
According to Dr David Ssali, a consultant at Dama Medicinal Herbs Clinic, Mitchell Cotts, Kampala, many people have realised the use of garlic.
It is not justifiable for one to spend a lot on imported garlic drugs. You can make garlic medicine that will last using these preparations adopted from Action for Natural Medicine sources:
Add honey slowly till it fills the spaces between the doves.
Place the jar in a warm place of about 20ºC. Store for 24 hours.
During this period, honey absorbs garlic juice and garlic becomes lump and opaque.
Do not filter. This preparation is usable within three months.
Close the jar tightly and let it stand in a warm place of about 20ºC for three days. Shake it a few times every day. Don’t filter. Store in a cool place and use within a month.
For malaria, chop garlic finely. Swallow one spoonful three times a day.
Do this for five days.
To treat coughs, colds, sinusitis and sore throats, eat garlic cloves three times a day or take a teaspoonful of garlic honey every few hours.
Children can take a teaspoonful of garlic cough mixture every few hours and adults, six times a day.
For coughs and flue, keep two cloves of garlic in the mouth, one on each side, and renew them frequently.
Those suffering from candida should take a tea spoon of garlic honey every few hours.
Keep in the mouth for as long as possible for typhoid fever, always add garlic to the usual treatment.
The same applies to bacillary, dysentery, cholera, dysentery, etc.
However, thrombosis, where blood clots in the blood vessels may arise especially for patients, who are confined to garlic that has gone bad.
Garlic should be used with caution because it might irritate the skin and irritate the eyes.