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(7 ] The Cure Common Mercury In 1981 and early 1982, American dentist Keith Livingston was given the standard required urinary test for dentists to test for mercury lev- els (dentists are exposed to mercury in fillings even more than patients) and found his mercury levels were abnormally high. He started taking six capsules of liquid garlic (Kyolic) a day. At the end of 1982 he had another urine test which showed that his mercury levels were lower than the average unexposed popu- lation. for thousands of years. Sanskrit records show it has been used in India for at least 5,000 years; China has used it for 3,000 years and Egyptian rec- ords of garlic date back to 1550 BC. Duringthe First World War, British army hospitals applied gar- lic juice diluted with water to sterile bandages for treating and prevent- ing infection. Many amputations were avoided by treating wet gan- grene with liquid garlic. A member of the Lily family, garlic is classified as a febrifuge (fever reducer/preventer), vermi- fuge (human body worm expeller), sudorific (sweat producer), diuretic (fluid excretion promoter), poison antidote and a natural antibiotic. The nutritional composition of garlic is quite surprising - protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phospho- rus, iron, sodium, potassium, thi- amin (Vitamin B-1), riboflavin (B-2), niacin (B-3) and ascorbic acid (Vit C), plus a long list of sulphur-con- taining compounds. The pungency of garlic comes from its allicin, a family of com- pounds called thiosulphinates which are valuable to the human body. Allicin (a sulphur com- pound) inhibits the growth of bacte- ria, has an anti-inflammatory fac- tor, an anti-coagulant factor, an anti-oxidant factor, an anti-arthritic factor (reduces inflammation and swelling) and a sugar metabolism factor useful for treating diabetes and hypoglycaemia. Selenium and germanium, found in garlic (which contains extraordinary levels of se- lenium), are believed to retard and prevent tumour growth and to neutralize heavy metal toxicity. Liquid garlic diluted and used asa douche has had remarkable success in killing the yeast organism Can- dida albicans. Used when gargling it eases sore throats. Blood choles- terol levels have been proven to drop dramatically after a course of Kyolic. Garlic can also lower blood pressure and its potential in elimi- nating the need for insulin in diabe- tes is being investigated. Animals can also benefit from garlic, which has been used against earmites invading dogs and cats and has very good properties for overcoming yeast and bacterial in- fections, molds and parasites. Ani- mals derive the same benefits from Garlic as humans - and it’s safe for them. Other problems that can be treated with garlic are acute con- junctivitis, ear infection, sinusitis, nose and mouth infections, haem- orrhoids, athlete’s foot, mosquito and other insect infestations, worms, acne and pimples, to name a few. Although garlic cannot be claimed as a cure for everything, there’s no doubt as to its amazing properties and the seemingly end- less list of ailments it helps remedy. 32 Garlic has also been known to reduce nausea and fatigue in preg- nancy and nausea caused by chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients - in a couple of cases it has helped send tumours into remis- sion. The people of Japan, Greece, India, Russia, Korea and China, whose diets contain large amounts of garlic, show significantly few cases of strokes and other related arterial problems. The Abkhazians of Soviet Georgia eat huge quanti- ties of garlic and studies of these people have shown they often live longer than 100 years; most can thread a needle without glasses at the age of ninety. Russian healers use garlic for many ailments and it is sometimes referred to as “Russian penicillin”. Garlic has had a role in healing for thousands of years - and it can also help 20th century pollution de- toxification and the elimination of food additives from the body. Taken regularly fresh in food or in liquid capsules (Kyolic) this won- drous root tones the body, protect- ing and cleansing it of pollutants and additives that we consume daily. So the cloves of garlic we use to flavour food have an apparently endless variety of healing proper- ties which people have used for millenia. We can all benefit from this common natural medicine. °° Garlic has been used in healing Yeast Infections Nexus New Times Two