Honey and garlic - a real storehouse of nutrients. Both of these products have received the broadest application in cooking, and thanks to a variety of useful properties are used in traditional medicine. When used together, their healing effect increases. Honey-garlic mixture will help cleanse the body of toxins, recharge your batteries, save yourself from vitamin deficiency and prevent many other diseases. Let us tell you why the tincture based on honey and garlic is useful with the addition of lemon, aloe and other useful natural substances, in what proportions and how to make this healing composition, how to drink it properly.
What helps garlic-honey composition, what are its benefits and harm?
Tincture helps to cope with the following problems:
- Cold and flu. Honey and garlic, possessing bactericidal properties, actively fight infection. Increase metabolism, which contributes to the removal of harmful substances from the body. Mobilize the mechanisms of immune protection, providing immunomodulatory effects. Garlic is a real natural antibiotic.
- Pneumonia and bronchitis. The substance relieves inflammation of the respiratory tract mucosa, relieves irritation and acts as an expectorant.
- Gastrointestinal problems. The mixture helps stimulate digestion and has a disinfectant effect, killing various pathogens due to antioxidant properties.
- Tincture will be useful for the cardiovascular system, due to sulfur compounds, which are contained in garlic and nutritious components of honey. They, being natural anticoagulants, do not allow blockages in the bloodstream and varicose veins.
- Tincture helps to regulate blood pressure and stimulate capillary blood circulation due to allicin in the composition of garlic, as well as to clear blood vessels from cholesterol.
- Medicinal properties of garlic can eliminate atherosclerotic plaques, and honey will replenish the reserves of potassium and magnesium, which will improve heart activity.
- Inflammatory processes in the oral cavity (stomatitis, periodontal disease, ulcers).
Despite the number of useful properties Do not forget about the possible harm infusions:
- Consuming large amounts of garlic can lead to high concentrations of toxic substances in the body.
- Phytoncides contained in it, which actively help fight the common cold, if they are consumed excessively, irritate the stomach walls. Acidity increases, which in turn leads to heartburn, a feeling of nausea, abdominal pain.
- In the case of the fight against tachycardia, cholesterol plaques and high blood pressure, one must be especially careful, since the blood thinning property of garlic can lead to headaches, nausea, suffocation and even bleeding.
Honey can also be harmful if consumed in unlimited quantities. The daily consumption rate of the product - 150 grams. Consumption above normal affects the kidneys and pancreas. Harmful honey and teeth due to the presence of sucrose and fructose in the composition.
Contraindications
Despite all the benefits and natural composition, there are a number of contraindications:
- exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases;
- bee products allergy;
- diseases of the genitourinary system;
- blood clotting disorders and chronic plethora syndrome;
- epilepsy;
- lactation and pregnancy.
Recipes of traditional medicine - proportions and instructions on how to take
Recipes for self-cooking tinctures of honey and garlic depend on what ailment must be cured. As a rule, a lemon rich in vitamin C is added to this mixture, which also has a tonic and healing effect (for more information about the popular combination of garlic and lemon for the treatment of various ailments, find out here).
Remedy with lemon for shortness of breath
It is widely known effective folk remedy from a mixture of 10 lemons and 10 heads of garlic per liter of honey; tell you how to properly prepare and take it.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. honey
- 10 heads of garlic;
- 10 lemons.
How to make honey-garlic mix with lemon:
- Chop garlic.
- Add lemon juice and honey.
- Mix thoroughly and put in a dark place for a week.
The finished product is taken daily during the month, 4 teaspoons at a time, slowly dissolving.
Composition of tachycardia
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of honey;
- 10 heads of garlic;
- 10 lemons.
Here's how to act to properly prepare a medicine for tachycardia:
- In a jar mix honey, lemon juice and grated garlic.
- Closed mixture insist during the week.
Take one teaspoon 3-4 times a day after meals.
Elixir from high pressure
Ingredients:
- 1 lemon;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 30 g of honey.
Cooking:
- Rinse lemon thoroughly.
- Using a blender, chop it with garlic cloves.
- Add honey.
- Close the lid and infuse for a week.
The finished composition is stored in a cool place.
The medicinal composition is taken in the morning and 2 hours before bedtime, 1 teaspoon. Reception duration not less than a month. This therapy should be carried out 4 times a year.
Attention! Garlic helps to thin the blood, so it is not recommended to be used simultaneously with drugs of similar action.
Cold medicine
Ingredients:
- 1 head of garlic;
- 300 g of honey.
Cooking:
- Chopped garlic is added to honey.
- The resulting mixture is infused during the day.
How to use the prepared medicine? The finished tincture is used 1 teaspoon at least 3 times a day. It can be used both at the first signs of a cold and for prophylaxis in the spring-autumn period.
Ingredients for cooking must be natural and of high quality.
To enhance the healing properties, to the tincture of honey and garlic, you can add other useful ingredients.
Infusion with aloe juice for the treatment of rhinitis
Ingredients:
- 1 clove garlic;
- 100 ml of aloe juice;
- 100 g of water;
- 100 g of honey.
Cooking:
- First, prepare the infusion of garlic. Peeled garlic pour warm boiled water and let it brew for 4 hours.
- Add honey and aloe juice, mix thoroughly.
Ready infusion can be dripped into the nose 5 drops up to 8 times a day.
With walnuts for the heart
Adding walnuts to the mixture will result in a combination to normalize the heart.
Ingredients:
- 100 ml of aloe juice;
- 100 ml of lemon juice;
- 300 g of honey;
- 500 g of walnuts.
Cooking:
- Walnuts crushed to crumb.
- Combine with honey, aloe juice and lemon.
The resulting mixture is taken half an hour before meals 3 times a day for 1 month.
With cranberries for healthy joints
Traditional medicine offers this recipe for joint diseases.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of cranberries;
- 200 g of garlic;
- 500 g of honey.
Cooking:
- Rinse the berry and fold it over a sieve to get rid of excess liquid.
- Then grind blender.
- Add sliced garlic cloves.
- Put the mixture in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
- Then add honey and mix thoroughly.
Should be taken 2 times a day in the morning and before bedtime no more than 30 grams per reception.
Important! After taking the mixture with honey, it is recommended to rinse the mouth, as the remaining crystals can lead to caries.
Find out more details about medicinal products based on garlic, cranberries and honey in a separate article.
Possible side effects
When using garlic tincture with honey, side effects can occur, such as:
- insomnia;
- headaches;
- acceleration of metabolism;
- diuretic effect;
- heartburn;
- tachycardia;
- bad breath.
All these problems are temporary and will pass after the end of treatment. If the reception of this tincture is agreed with the doctor and does not cause obvious harm to the body, then you can try to alleviate the unpleasant state. It is recommended to drink tea with mint or basil, infusion of motherwort, and to reduce the burden on the kidneys should drink at least 1 liter of water per day.
Honey and garlic are so rich in nutrients that they can cure many ailments, and with the addition of other useful ingredients, the healing properties only increase. However, do not neglect visits to the doctor and try to get rid of the disease only folk remedies. You also need to remember that such infusions are not recommended for children under 5 years.